Stanley J. Wilder • 2003 • ISBN 0-918006-97-X • 76 pp.
Demographic Change in Academic Librarianship revisits the retirement projections in Stanley Wilder's 1995 age demographics report and presents an updated analysis of demographic trends that are based on newly available ARL and U.S. census data. While the 1995 report focused on the impact of retirements on the profession, Demographic Change in Academic Librarianship recognizes the connection between the aging of the profession and new entries to the population. In addition to presenting new projections for retirements through 2020, this study updates the age profile of librarians in ARL academic libraries and examines the age, race, gender, and skills of new library professionals.
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RLI issue 267 includes:
- Introduction: A Special Issue on Distinctive Collections
- Special Collections at the Cusp of the Digital Age: A Credo
- Moving Special Collections Forward in an Age of Discovery: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum
- The Collaborative Imperative: Special Collections in the Digital Age
- The Changing Role of Special Collections in Scholarly Communications
This report analyzes salary data for all professional staff working in the 126 ARL member libraries during 2011-2012. Data are reported for 9,910 professional staff in the 115 university libraries and for 4,046 professional staff in the 11 non-university libraries.
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Link to the online ARL Annual Salary Survey 2011-2012 on the ARL Digital Publications website.
SPEC Kit 331 focuses on the professional, administrative, and management positions that report directly to the library director (or in some ARL member libraries the position that serves as the representative to the association), positions that have not been examined by a SPEC survey since 1984. It explores the responsibilities of these positions, and the skills, qualifications, and competencies necessary for these administrators to successfully lead a transforming 21st century research library. It looks at whether and how position requirements have changed in the past five years, whether the number of direct reports has changed, whether these administrators have assumed new areas of organizational responsibility, and how they acquire the new skills to fulfill those responsibilities. It includes documents that compare organization charts and position descriptions from 2007 and 2012.
This publication is available for purchase in both online and print versions. Download the spec-kit-purchase-options-2013.pdf for complete pricing and purchase options information.
Link to the online SPEC Kit 331 on the ARL Digital Publications website.
RLI issue 265: Special Issue on Liaison Librarian Roles includes the following articles:
- Introduction: Positioning Liaison Librarians for the 21st Century
- A Framework for Articulating New Library Roles
- Amplifying the Educational Role of Librarians
- The Last Mile: Liaison Roles in Curating Science and Engineering Research Data
- Scholarly Communications: Planning for the Integration of Liaison Librarian Roles
- New Roles of Liaison Librarians: A Liaison s Perspective
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RLI issue 272 includes:
- Developing a Vital Research Library Workforce
- Transforming Roles for Academic Librarians: Leading and Participating in New Partnerships
- Restructuring at UCLA Library
- Understanding the Organizational Value of Post–Master’s Degree Residency Programs
Kathleen De Long, Associate University Librarian, Human Resources and Teaching/Learning, University of Alberta Libraries
Michael Brewer, Librarian, Team Leader for Instructional Services, University of Arizona Libraries
 2012-hrsym-pres-brewer-and-delong.pdf
This report analyzes salary data for all professional staff working in the 126 ARL member libraries during 2010–2011. Data are reported for 10,037 professional staff in the 115 university ARL libraries and for 3,709 professional staff in the 11 non-university ARL libraries.
This publication is available for purchase in both online and print versions. Download the arl-salary-survey-purchase-options-2013.pdf for complete pricing and purchase options information.
Link to the online ARL Annual Salary Survey 2010-2011 on the ARL Digital Publications website.
The report proposes that the growing number, and heterogeneity, of graduate students and programs presents opportunities for research libraries to provide segmented services targeted for students at different stages of their academic and demographic life-cycle.
Through their interviews, Covert-Vail and Collard found an enthusiasm for a broad range of new services, from advanced data manipulation and visualization to softer skills-based instruction in time management and writer’s block. They also report that new configurations of library space, housing aggregated services into research or scholarly commons, for example, can both create and leverage collaborations within the larger institution.
Finally, the authors present different strategies for staffing graduate student services, from dedicated positions and committees to more loosely structured teams comprising subject liaisons, technologists, data librarians, and others, who work together to deliver a suite of complex solutions to meet the needs of graduate students in research institutions.
nrnt-grad-roles-20dec12.pdf
A scanned version of SPEC Kit 276 is available full view through HathiTrust. View document here »
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