Workforce

SPEC Kit 315 investigates two broad categories of benefit plans currently offered to professional library staff at ARL member libraries: leave time and support for professional development activities. Topics include benefits eligibility; holiday and intersession leave; plan designs and accrual rates for paid time off (PTO), vacation, and sick leave; and professional development leaves such as dedicated research time and sabbaticals. Other professional development topics include financial support and relief from duties for conference attendance; funding for professional association memberships; and financial and other support for college credit course work, internships, and certifications. It includes documentation from respondents in the form of policies on travel support, professional development leave and funding, sabbaticals, education, and tuition assistance and an example of an individual development award program.

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This report analyzes salary data for all professional staff working in the 123 ARL member libraries during 2008-2009. Data are reported for 10,148 professional staff in the 113 university ARL libraries and for 3,748 professional staff in the 10 non-university ARL libraries.

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Link to the online ARL Annual Salary Survey 2008-2009 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

This report analyzes salary data for all professional staff working in the 123 ARL member libraries during 2007-08. Data are reported for 9,983 professional staff in the 113 university ARL libraries and for 3,797 professional staff in the 10 non-university ARL libraries.

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Link to the online ARL Annual Salary Survey 2007-2008 on the ARL Digital Publications website.

SPEC Kit 302 explores the management of library public computing, i.e., those computers that are located in public spaces for use by patrons, as distinct from staff computers and servers. By jointly looking at the scale of the public computing operations, the staffing and organizational structure, budgets, upgrades, maintenance, security, polices, and assessment, the survey pulls together and expands on issues covered in several previous SPEC Kits. It includes documentation from respondents in the form of job descriptions, public computing policies and procedures, and organization charts.

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This report analyzes salary data for all professional staff working in the 123 ARL member libraries during 2006–07. Data are reported for 9,824 professional staff in the 113 university ARL libraries and for 3,832 professional staff in the 10 non-university ARL libraries.

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Link to the online ARL Annual Salary Survey 2006-2007 on the ARL Digital Publications website.

SPEC Kit 293 explores the policies and procedures that ARL member libraries use in the external review process for candidates who are eligible for promotion, tenure, or continuing appointment. It examines how external reviewers are identified and asked to participate in the review process, what instructions are given to reviewers, what materials are included in candidates’ portfolios, and the criteria for evaluating candidates’ portfolios, among other questions. It includes documentation from respondents for external review procedures and innstructions to external reviewers.

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This report analyzes salary data for all professional staff working in the 123 ARL member libraries during 2005–06. Data were reported for 9,655 professional staff in the 113 university libraries and for 3,921 professional staff members at the 10 nonuniversity libraries at ARL member institutions.

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Link to the online ARL Annual Salary Survey 2005-2006 on the ARL Digital Publications website.

A PDF of SPEC Kit 292 is available here spec-kit-290-access-services.pdf.

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A scanned version of SPEC Kit 289 is available full view through HathiTrust.  View the document here »

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