Academic and Public Librarian Salaries and Library Staffing Expenditures Trends, 2000-2009

Davis, Denise M.

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Title

Academic and Public Librarian Salaries and Library Staffing Expenditures Trends, 2000-2009

Author(s)

Davis, Denise M.

Issue Date

2010

Keyword(s)

• Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science
• Librarians -- Salaries, etc. -- United States.
• Library finance -- United States.

Abstract

Library salaries/wages and benefits expenditures consume as much as 70 percent of some library operating budgets. The impact of low or negative-growth budgets and the displacement of technology expenditures to other categories of library operating (e.g., collections, programming, and outreach) are significant for many libraries. Relying on national surveys of academic libraries from the National Center for Education Statistics, surveys of public libraries from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and annual salary surveys from the American Library Association (ALA) and ALA-Allied Professional Association, this article will describe, for the period 2000-2009, the distribution of academic and public library expenditures, present librarian salary survey ranges by type of library and position held, and elucidate trends identified from comparison of the three data sources.

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ISSN

0024-2594

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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