ARL Annual Salary Survey 2005–2006

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Custom reports based on the Salary Survey data are also available. Contact the ARL Statistics and Measurement Program Officer for further information. The quantitative rank order tables presented in this publication are not indicative of performance and outcomes and should not be used as measures of library quality. In comparing any individual library to ARL medians or to other ARL members, one must be careful to make such comparisons within the context of differing institutional and local goals and characteristics.Visit the ARL Statistics and Measurement Program online at http://www.arl.org/stats/ ISSN 0361-5669 ISBN 1-59407-738-X © Copyright NoticeThe compilation is copyrighted by the Association of Research Libraries. Blanket permission is granted to reproduce and distribute copies of this work for nonprofit, educational, or library purposes, provided that the author, source, and copyright notice are included on each copy. This permission is in addition to rights of reproduction granted under Sections 107, 108, and other provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act. Libraries and Archives, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992(R1997). The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Science and National Information Standards Organization standard-Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Printed in the United States of America 3 TABLE OF CONTENTSP SALARY LEVELS FOR STAFF IN ARL LIBRARIES ARL NONUNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ARL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES U.S. ARL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ARL UNIVERSITY LAW LIBRARIES SALARY SURVEY TRENDS 2005-06The ARL Annual Salary Survey 2005-06 reports salary data for all professional staff working in ARL libraries. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) represents the interests of libraries that serve major North American research institutions. The Association operates as a forum for the exchange of ideas and as an agent for collective action to influence forces affecting the ability of these libraries to meet the future needs of scholarship. The ARL Statistics and Measurement program, which produces the Salary Survey, is organized around collecting, analyzing, and distributing quantifiable information describing the characteristics of research libraries. The ARL Annual Salary Survey is the most comprehensive and thorough guide to current salaries in large U.S. and Canadian academic and research libraries, and is a valuable management and research tool.Data for 9,655 professional staff members were reported this year for the 113 ARL university libraries, including their law and medical libraries (913 staff members reported by 71 medical libraries and 746 staff members reported by 75 law libraries). For the 10 nonuniversity ARL members, data were reported for 3,921 professional staff members.The tables are organized in seven major sections. The first section includes Tables 1 through 4, which report salary figures for all professionals working in ARL member libraries, including law and medical library data. The second ...

Open-Access Science: A Necessity for Global Public Health

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Looking Back, Moving Forward in the Digital Age

“…56 In 2005-6, Kyrillidou and Young noted that indicating the value of unit cost of a serial subscription becomes relatively uninformative when libraries have access to the same serial title though multiple subscriptions and platforms. 57 In 2006-7, Kyrillidou and Bland concluded that the cost of accessing electronic materials had far outpaced the cost of acquiring other materials. 58 Indeed, by 2008 the average ARL library spent 51 percent of its materials budgets on electronic resources.…”

Journal Prices, Book Acquisitions, and Sustainable College Library Collections

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