Paraprofessional staff: a review and report on current duty assignment in academic health sciences libraries in North America.
Year: 1993
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This paper reviews paraprofessional employment in libraries and examines the trend toward assigning increasingly complex duties to academic library paraprofessionals. During the spring of 1989, directors of academic health sciences libraries in the United States and Canada were surveyed to determine the duties assigned to paraprofessionals. The results show that paraprofessionals are assigned a wide range of duties, including supervising functional areas, such as circulation and interlibrary loan, and some tasks often considered professional, such as original cataloging and in-depth reference work. The findings illustrate the importance of the paraprofessional to librarianship.
Source: Europe PMC (PubMed Central)
Authors: R H Makinen, S Speer
Institution: University of Minnesota
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W164227560