47 ARL Annual Salary Survey 2015–2016 Table 26: Years of Experience of Professional Staff in ARL University Libraries by Position and Size of Professional Staff, FY 2015–2016 Staff Over 110 (15)† Staff 75–110 (23) Staff 50–74 (45) Staff 20–49 (31)‡ Position Years No. Years No. Years No. Years No. Director 30.6 15 34.4 22 31.9 44 31.7 29 Associate Director 24.3 59 25.9 85 25.0 112 25.8 64 Assistant Director 24.1 34 25.8 37 22.5 45 23.0 17 Head, Branch 24.0 116 20.9 90 22.2 121 19.8 37 Administrative Specialist 17.8 142 16.2 106 16.3 194 17.8 81 Digital Specialist 13.2 357 13.3 337 13.6 466 12.9 144 Functional Specialist 15.5 354 13.6 282 14.2 369 14.7 141 Subject Specialist 16.8 378 17.2 426 17.4 542 16.7 265 Dept. Head, Acquisitions 18.8 14 19.9 24 21.3 43 16.3 23 Dept. Head, Research/ Reference/Information or Learning Commons 20.2 28 19.8 30 18.7 44 20.1 26 Dept. Head, Cataloging 20.8 37 21.5 33 22.6 47 21.5 24 Dept. Head, Circulation 22.3 23 22.3 24 14.7 43 21.9 18 Dept. Head, Rare Books/Manuscripts/ Special Collections 23.5 18 22.4 24 20.1 40 23.4 24 Dept. Head, Library Technology 19.8 18 21.4 24 17.9 36 17.5 23 Dept. Head, Other 20.5 138 21.0 169 19.0 194 18.8 90 Public Services 16.2 72 11.0 46 14.7 96 14.4 8 Technical Services 16.9 43 14.3 26 15.2 50 21.8 6 Research/Reference/ Instruction 13.9 293 15.0 179 15.5 192 17.0 140 Cataloger/Metadata Analysts 19.8 215 18.3 162 17.8 153 19.1 77 All Positions: 17.2 2,354 17.2 2,126 17.1 2,831 17.8 1,237 Excludes medical and law libraries. ()Indicates the number of ARL libraries in each category. † In 1995–1996 and earlier, the first column of this table reported staff over 124 in 1996–1998 over 120 in 1998–1999 over 115 and since 1999–2000, over 110. ‡ No ARL library has fewer than 20 professional staff members.