Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 09:47:51 -0500 (EST)
From: "Stats Research Asst." <stats-ra@cni.org>
Cc: Martha Kyrillidou <martha@cni.org>
Subject: ARL Announces: 1995-96 Salary Survey

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ARL Announces:

1995-96 ARL Salary Survey Shows Librarians' Salaries Continue to Increase

        The latest salary information for more than 12,000 library
professionals working in academic and research libraries in the United
States and Canada is now available in the ARL Annual Salary Survey
1995-96.  Survey results show the median salary for academic librarians is
$41,901 in 1995-96; the median beginning professional salary is $27,000.

        This publication presents salary information for different sex and
minority staff categories.  Note that out of the 101 currently filled
directorships in ARL university libraries, 60 are held by men (59%) and 41
are held by women (41%).  Of the 842 minority staff in U.S.  ARL
university libraries (11.32% of all professional staff), 226 are men and
616 are women.

        The ARL Annual Salary Survey also includes separate sections for
professional staff in:

*       Canadian libraries
*       Law libraries
*       Medical libraries

        Tables display average, median, and beginning professional
salaries.  Average salaries are also displayed by position, experience,
sex, race, geographic region, and size of library.

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        The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a not-for-profit
organization of 119 research libraries in the U.S.  and Canada.  Its
mission is to shape and influence forces affecting the future of research
libraries in the process of scholarly communication.  The ARL Statistics
and Measurement works to describe and measure the performance of research
libraries and their contribution to research, teaching, scholarship, and
community service.Additional information on this and other ARL products
and services can be found on the ARL Gopher (gopher://arl.cni.org) and
World Wide Web (http://arl.cni.org).

ARL ANNUAL SALARY SURVEY 1995-96
COMPILED AND EDITED BY M. KYRILLIDOU AND K. MAXWELL
ISSN: 0361-5669
PRICE: $65 PER YEAR (MEMBERS $35)
ORDER INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM: pubs@cni.org

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Association of Research Libraries
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