ARL Annual Salary Survey 2014–2015

Kyrillidou, Martha; Morris, Shaneka

12 · ARL Annual Salary Survey 2014–2015 Currently, 14.8% of the professional staff in US ARL university libraries (including law and medical libraries) belong to one of the four non-Caucasian categories for which ARL keeps records. The percentage of minorities in managerial or leadership positions in ARL academic libraries is far lower: 10.7% are directors (12 out of 112), 6.2% are associate directors (20 out of 323), 7.0% are assistant directors (11 out of 157) and 8.7% (33 out of 379) are the head of a branch library (see Table 31). Graph 1, below, depicts the overall racial/ethnic distribution of professional staff in US ARL university libraries: Caucasian/Other 85.2%, Asian/Pacific Islander 6.8%, Black 4.6%, Hispanic 3.0%, and American Indian/Alaskan Native 0.4%. Figure 1: Race/Ethnicity of Professional Staff in US ARL University Libraries, FY 2014–2015 Caucasian/Other 85.2% American Indian or Native Alaskan 0.4% Asian or Pacific Islander 6.8% Hispanic 3.0% Black 4.6% Minority professional staff in US ARL university libraries continues to be disproportionately distributed across the country. Using Figure 2, we can compare the number of minority staff with other staff, region by region. These patterns of distribution have been relatively stable for the entire history of ARL’s data-collection experience. Minorities are underrepresented by almost 37% in the West North Central region and by 34% in the New England region (see Table 27 for a definition of the regions). Proportionately to other regions, there are more minorities in the Pacific, Middle Atlantic, and South Atlantic regions.

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12 · ARL Annual Salary Survey 2014–2015 Currently, 14.8% of the professional staff in US ARL university libraries (including law and medical libraries) belong to one of the four non-Caucasian categories for which ARL keeps records. The percentage of minorities in managerial or leadership positions in ARL academic libraries is far lower: 10.7% are directors (12 out of 112), 6.2% are associate directors (20 out of 323), 7.0% are assistant directors (11 out of 157) and 8.7% (33 out of 379) are the head of a branch library (see Table 31). Graph 1, below, depicts the overall racial/ethnic distribution of professional staff in US ARL university libraries: Caucasian/Other 85.2%, Asian/Pacific Islander 6.8%, Black 4.6%, Hispanic 3.0%, and American Indian/Alaskan Native 0.4%. Figure 1: Race/Ethnicity of Professional Staff in US ARL University Libraries, FY 2014–2015 Caucasian/Other 85.2% American Indian or Native Alaskan 0.4% Asian or Pacific Islander 6.8% Hispanic 3.0% Black 4.6% Minority professional staff in US ARL university libraries continues to be disproportionately distributed across the country. Using Figure 2, we can compare the number of minority staff with other staff, region by region. These patterns of distribution have been relatively stable for the entire history of ARL’s data-collection experience. Minorities are underrepresented by almost 37% in the West North Central region and by 34% in the New England region (see Table 27 for a definition of the regions). Proportionately to other regions, there are more minorities in the Pacific, Middle Atlantic, and South Atlantic regions.

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Salary Survey Trends 2014–2015 · 11 Salary Survey Trends 2014–2015 The ARL Annual Salary Survey 2014–2015 reports salary data for all professional staff working in ARL member libraries. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) represents the interests of libraries that serve major research institutions in the US and Canada. The Association operates as a forum for the exchange of ideas and as an agent for collective action to influence forces affecting the ability of these libraries to meet the future needs of scholarship. The ARL Statistics and Assessment program, which produces the Salary Survey, is organized around collecting, analyzing, and distributing quantifiable information describing the characteristics of research libraries. The ARL Annual Salary Survey is the most comprehensive and thorough guide to current salaries in large US and Canadian academic and research libraries and is a valuable management and research tool. Data for 10,036 professional staff members were reported this year for the 115 ARL university libraries, including their law and medical libraries (866 staff members reported by 72 medical libraries and 731 staff members reported by 76 law libraries). For the 10 nonuniversity ARL members, data were reported for 3,635 professional staff members. The university population is generally treated in three distinct groups: staff in the “general” library system, staff in the university medical libraries, and staff in the university law libraries. Any branch libraries for which data were received, other than law and medical, are included in the “general” category, whether or not those libraries are administratively independent. Footnotes for many institutions provide information on branch inclusion or exclusion. In all tables where data from US and Canadian institutions are combined, Canadian salaries are converted into US dollar equivalents at the rate of 1.0706 Canadian dollars per US dollar.1 Tables 4 and 40 through 46, however, pertain exclusively to staff in Canadian university libraries, so salary data in those tables are expressed in Canadian dollars. The tables are organized in seven major sections. The first section includes Tables 1 through 4, which report salary figures for all professionals working in ARL member libraries, including law and medical library data. The second section includes salary information for the 10 nonuniversity research libraries of ARL. The third section, entitled “ARL University Libraries,” reports data in Tables 7 through 27 for the “general” library system of the university ARL members, combining US and Canadian data but excluding law and medical data. The fourth section, composed of Tables 28 through 39, reports data on US ARL university library members excluding law and medical data the fifth section, Tables 40–46, reports data on Canadian ARL university libraries excluding law and medical data. The sixth section, (Tables 47–56) and the seventh section (Tables 57–66) report on medical and law libraries, respectively, combining US and Canadian data. Initial diagnostics showed that some of the job categories had too few cases. These categories have been aggregated into the same groupings as in prior years. Race and Ethnicity There were 1,294 minority professional staff reported in 99 US ARL university libraries, including law and medical libraries.2 Note that the data for minority professionals comes only from the US ARL university libraries following the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) definitions. 1 This is the average monthly noon exchange rate published in the Bank of Canada Review for the period July 2013–June 2014 and is used in converting figures that are shown effective as of 1 July 2014. This information can be accessed at http:// www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/exchange.html. 2 Some US institutions offer their librarians the option of not reporting race and ethnicity others forbid the tracking of racial and ethnic classification altogether. See Footnotes.

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Salary Survey Trends 2014–2015 · 13 Figure 2: Minority Professionals by Region in US ARL University Libraries, FY 2014–2015 Race/ Ethnicity Category New England Middle Atlantic East North Central West North Central South Atlantic East South Central West South Central Mountain Pacific Total %Black 25 75 72 21 126 22 25 8 27 401 31% Hispanic 17 50 37 9 44 8 36 22 43 266 21% Asian 71 106 83 22 86 14 45 17 149 593 46% American Indian/Alaskan Native 3 9 5 3 1 3 7 3 34 3% Minority Total 116 240 197 55 257 44 109 54 222 1294 100.0% Minority Percent 9.0% 18.5% 15.2% 4.3% 19.9% 3.4% 8.4% 4.2% 17.2% Nonminority Total 1013 1240 1300 503 1350 365 624 399 653 7447 100.0% Nonminority Percent 13.6% 16.7% 17.5% 6.8% 18.1% 4.9% 8.4% 5.4% 8.8% Regional Percent Total staff 12.9% 16.9% 17.1% 6.4% 18.4% 4.7% 8.4% 5.2% 10.0% Proportional Minority Representation -33.82% 10.78% -13.14% -36.76% 9.94% -30.61% 0.00% -22.22% 95.45% ARL recognizes the difficulties that the profession has in attracting a diverse workforce and continues to work actively in the development of workplace climates that embrace diversity. One way that ARL achieves this end is through the work of the ARL Diversity Program. The ARL Diversity Program through its Leadership and Career Development Program and the Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce, emphasizes ARL’s and its members’ commitment to creating a diverse academic and research library community to better meet the new challenges of global competition and changing demographics. Further, the diversity program focuses on issues surrounding work relationships in libraries while considering the impact of diversity on library services, interactions with library users, and the development of collections. More information about the diversity program can be found at http://www.arl.org/leadership-recruitment/diversity-recruitment. ClimateQUAL® is an assessment initiative that focuses on some of the same issues. It is the statistics and assessment program’s tool that assesses organizational climate and diversity in libraries. ClimateQUAL helps libraries plumb the dimensions of climate and organizational culture important for a healthy organization in a library setting. The survey addresses climate issues such as diversity, teamwork, learning, and fairness, as well as current managerial practices, and staff attitudes and beliefs. Libraries use their survey data to improve their organizational climate and diversity culture for delivering superior services to the communities they serve. More information about ClimateQUAL can be found at http://www.climatequal.org.

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