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Statement on the Certification & Licensing of Academic Librarians
Approved by the ACRL Board of Directors, July, 1989.
Reaffirmed by the ACRL Board, June, 2001 and June, 2007.
At the 1989 Annual Conference, the board of directors of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) approved the following "Statement on the Certification and Licensing of Academic Librarians":
The Association of College and Research libraries has affirmed that the master's degree from a program accredited by the American Library Association is the appropriate terminal professional degree for academic librarians. Therefore, it opposes certification or licensing in lieu of that degree for academic librarians, either by state agencies or by state or local professional associations.
The statement, prepared by ACRL's Academic Status Committee, does not oppose licensing or certification of librarians as an addition to an already obtained M.L.S., but only opposes it when it is substituted for earning an M.L.S.
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