January 25, 2008

Librarians Confer in a Midwinter Meeting of Some Discontents

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

At the midwinter conference of the American Library Association here this month, librarians at for-profit academic institutions served notice that they are tired of being ignored. A group for librarians who work at such institutions recently formed within the Association of College & Research Libraries, and they gathered one morning to share their concerns.

One major issue is that state library consortia exclude for-profit institutions from membership. The librarians at those

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