November 4, 2005

Reasons for and Against Tenure for Librarians

To the Editor:

Whether or not one believes that librarians should be tenurable, Deborah A. Carver's reasons why we shouldn't be make no sense ("Should Librarians Get Tenure? No, It Can Hamper Their Roles," special supplement on Libraries, September 30).

Librarians need academic freedom precisely because our jobs and our professional values call for us to create collections of widely diverse and controversial materials, including the unorthodox and the unpopular. The American