Use of Classification and Pay Plans in Junior College Libraries

W HEN I WAS ASKED to discuss the use of classification and pay plans with this group, my first reaction was to wonder just how much junior college librarians were concerned with this subject. This led me to start back through the files of the Junior College Journal. In the November 1948 issue I read with interest the article by Martorana and Koos which reports the findings of an investigation of policies and practices relating to junior college teacher salaries based upon questionnaires returned · by 296 institutions. The concluding observarion of the authors is: "Generalizing from reports from the 296 junior colleges reached in the study, one may conclude that, though considerable evidence of use of sound administrative and personnel practices was discovered, much room for improvement yet remains in the area of salary administration in junior colleges. Strongest point in this regard is the fact that only about half the junior colleges use salary schedules. Effort should be made to determine objectively the factors that ought to be taken into account in a schedule .... In addition, all junior colleges should build and adopt a soundly constructed schedule .... 2 While this study was limited to salaries