Library Association (UK): Professionalization and Redefinition in the 1960s and 1970s

Woolwine, David

doi:10.5325/libraries.3.2.0175

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Research Article| September 01 2019

Library Association (UK): Professionalization and Redefinition in the 1960s and 1970s

David Woolwine

Hofstra University

DAVID WOOLWINE is assistant professor of library services and reference librarian, Hofstra University. He holds an MLS from Queens College/CUNY and PhD in sociology from Princeton University. He has taught social sciences and has worked as indexer and editor of the Social Sciences Index (H. W. Wilson Company).

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Libraries: Culture, History, and Society (2019) 3 (2): 175–198.

https://doi.org/10.5325/libraries.3.2.0175

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This article employs Andrew Abbott's ecological theory of professionalization advanced in The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor. It explores the case of the Library Association (UK), which moved in the 1960s and 1970s toward a fully university-based training and certification system and explores how the LA redefined itself, establishing partial control over some areas claimed by the emerging profession of information science.

Library Association, United Kingdom, professionalization, Andrew Abbott, Paulin Report

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