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Office for Research and Statistics

ALA Survey of Librarian Salaries 2007

• 2007 Summary Article 
• Purchase Information - 2007 Edition

Library Staff Studies (Results of Supplementary Questions) in Annual ALA Survey of Librarian Salaries

• Librarian Salaries: Have they kept pace? (2005) 
• Compensation Strategies Used in Public and Academic Libraries (2005) 
• Library Staff Covered by Collective Bargaining Agreements (2005)
• Library Support Staff Job Titles (2004)
• Employee Benefits (2003)  
• Spending on Staff Development  (2001)
• Age of Librarians  (1999)
• Library Directors: Gender & Salary  (1999)
• Collective Bargaining Agreement and Pay Systems  (1997)
• Survey of Internet Access Management in Public Libraries 
  Prepared for ALA by the Library Research Center, GSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  June 2000

Recruitment and Retirement

• Retirement & Recruitment (2002): A Deeper Look 
• Retirement & Recruitment (2002): A Deeper Look Figures 
• Library Retirements - What Can We Expect - 2004 
  Librarian Salaries in the U.S.: The impact of revenue redistribution on library recruitment. VINE, 35(4):188-195.

State Libraries Reporting Salary Data

• Summary of Data - 2006 

Other Research

• The Future of Librarians in the Workforce

@ your library^® Household Surveys

• 2006 Summary Results - 2006 KRC @ your library® Household Survey 
• 2006 Survey Detail - Detailed Study Slides 
• 2002 Summary Results - 2002 KRC @ your library® Household Survey 

ALA Member Demographics

• Know Thyself 
• Get Out the Hair Dye....we really are getting old! 
• Keep Out the Hair Dye….Member Demographic Survey Update - March 2006 
• Membership Looking a Little Younger - October 2006 

• Member Demographics Study Reporting Option When Renewing Online - January 2008

Public Library Funding Survey

• Funding Issues in U.S. Public Libraries, Fiscal Years 2003-2006

Reciprocal Borrowing Survey

• American Libraries Article (January 2005)
• Table of Responses - Reciprocal Borrowing Survey

Youth Use of Public and School Libraries (Harris Interactive, 2007)

Economic Hard Times and Public Library Use Revisited

• Article in American Libraries 
• Technical Report 
• Racial and Ethnic Diversity Among Librarians: A Status Report (1998)

Listing of Research Related to Library Value (Return on Investment) - Revised July 2007 

Papers and Presentations

• Frances Eppes Lecture, Florida State University, College of Information, April 1, 2005. 
  "Policy Implications of the Federal Library Statistics Program"

Research on Libraries and Librarianship: Annual Article in The Bowker Annual

• 2007 
• 2006 
• 2005 
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002
• 2001
• 2000