Library Staff Studies

Request for Proposal: National Salary Survey 2012

The American Library Association seeks proposals to conduct a national Web-based salary survey for the 2012 edition of the ALA-APA Salary Survey: Librarian - Public and Academic. The survey is sent to directors and human resources staff in a random sample of both public and academic libraries.

The contractor will be responsible for distributing the survey to the sample in early 2012, collecting and analyzing the data and preparing the data for print and database use. The project is considered "work for hire" and ALA will have sole ownership of all work products.

The RFP for the Salary Survey can be downloaded in PDF format here. Responses are required by September 15, 2011.

Additional information about the previous Librarian salary surveys is available at http://ala-apa.org/improving-salariesstatus/#surveys.

Questions regarding the proposal should be addressed to Cathleen Bourdon, cbourdon@ala.org or (800) 545-2433, ext. 3217.

Results of Supplementary Questions in Annual ALA Survey of Librarian Salaries

• Librarian Salaries: Have they kept pace? (2005) (pdf)
• Compensation Strategies Used in Public and Academic Libraries (2005) (pdf)
• Library Staff Covered by Collective Bargaining Agreements (2005) (pdf)
• 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 (pdf)
  Prepared for ALA by the Library Research Center, GSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  June 2000

State libraries reporting salary data

• Summary of Data - 2006 (pdf)

 

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