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A Critical Examination of the 1927 Proposed Classifications and Compensation Plan for Library Positions by the American Library Association

In 1927, the American Library Association (ALA) Committee on the Classification of Library Personnel issued a job classification and compensation plan for librarianship. The plan was the first attempt to identify job duties and minimum qualifications of library workers for the entire profession. Based on a survey of 162 libraries of all types, the plan established more than 180 job classes. The content of the plan reflects confusion, especially over the minimum education and training required to perform library jobs, and there were additional problems with the questionnaire and the representativeness of the sample. But despite its shortcomings, the plan demonstrates that librarianship was using some of the most current management techniques available and confronting personnel problems that are still debated in librarianship today.