Libraries nationwide receiving ALA-APA Library Salary Survey Invitation

Contact: Jenifer Grady
jgrady@ala.org

NEWS
For Immediate Release,
February 23, 2010

CHICAGO – Library directors and human resources staff, check your mail. More than 1,600 public and academic libraries are being asked to participate in the 2010 ALA-APA Librarian Salary Survey. This year, the survey asks for salary data for six librariantitles. The deadline is Friday, Feb. 26, for completing the Web-based survey. Survey letters with instructions were addressed to the attention of the library director or human resources manager and are in envelopes with the ALA logo.

In order to thank participants, all responding institutions that provide contact information will be given a discount on 30-day access to the ALA-APA Library Salary Database – http://cs.ala.org/websurvey/salarysurvey/login/login.cfm - as well as a discount on the printed survey. The public and academic libraries that receive the letter are part of a scientifically selected sample of 1,672 public and academic libraries, chosen to reflect the variety of sizes of libraries as well as to ensure that the sample will be statistically significant for state salary data reporting. It is very important that all who are asked to participate respond, so that the surveys provide the highest quality information to managers who set and benchmark salaries and for librarians who are in the process of evaluating their career prospects.

This year’s supplemental questions ask which employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements and which compensation strategies are used in the library system, in order to update the data from 1997 and 2005.

ALA has collected and published salary information on librarians with ALA-accredited master’s degrees since 1982. ALA-APA continues to consult with the ALA Office for Research and Statistics to conduct the survey, which reports data for five public library sizes and three academic library types by region and state.

If you have any questions, please contact the ALA-APA Office at (800) 545-2433, ext.2424 or e-mail jgrady@ala.org.