This study examines job advertisements for academic librarians published in three journals between 1959 and 1979.It attempts to discover basic changes in the requirements demanded of, and benefits offered to, job candidates over this time period.Announcements were analyzed in terms of their requirements for education, experience, qualifications, and responsibilities and their offers of salary and faculty status.The study concludes that, although academic librarians were expected to bring more to their jobs in 1979 than in 1959, salaries in real dollars showed no appreciable increase, and faculty status was not explicitly offered in most cases.
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Mary Baier Wells (1982) studied this question.