Throughout the past decade, there have been increasing demands by American academic librarians for full faculty status, participation in management, and unionization. To determine if these demands have caused changes, a survey was made of the personnel organization schemes at the libraries of five major universities--Texas A&M, Harvard, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and the University of California at Los Angeles--noting how these schemes reflect the Association of College and Research Libraries' standards for faculty status. The question of faculty status for librarians was examined in terms of faculty organizations; librarians' role in governance; and appointment, promotion, and tenure practices. Other aspects of personnel policy; fringe benefits, termination and grievance procedures, compensation, leaves, research funds, and academic freedom; were also examined. It was concluded that, at present, the drive for faculty status is the most favored scheme for the rationalization and improvement of academic library personnel systems; however, personnel practices and participative management schemes are still in a state of flux, and many new directions are possible. (SL)