132 · ARL Annual Salary Survey 2014–2015 ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES 1 GENERAL OVERVIEW ARL ANNUAL SALARY SURVEY 2014-2015 University Library Questionnaire GENERAL AND DATA INPUT (CSV) INSTRUCTIONS http://www.arlstatistics.org/About/Mailings/ss_2014-15 Important Initial Information Please return the questionnaire the ARL Statistics and Assessment Program by August 31, 2014. Be sure to keep a complete copy of your submission, including the electronic version of the data for your files. We are collecting the salary data through the http://arlstatistics.org interface like we did last year but you also have the option of sending the files to us by email to stats@arl.org if this is your preferred method. This survey is concerned with professional positions only. Since the criteria for determining professional status vary among libraries, there is no attempt to define the term “professional.” Each library should report the salaries of those staff members it considers professionals, irrespective of faculty status or membership in a collective bargaining unit, including, when appropriate, staff who are not librarians in the strict sense of the term, such as computer experts, systems analysts, budget officers, etc. Report individual salaries for the Main, Law, and Medical library on separate CSV files using the Microsoft CSV Template at http://www.arlstatistics.org/About/Mailings/ss_2014-15. Add your institution’s ARL Library Institution Code [LibID] to the template. (See http://www.arlstatistics.org/about/instno if you do not know your institution code.) We are using online validation like we did last year. The online validation requires that Part II of your submission, the Excel spreadsheet portion, be in CSV format. Your online submission will be successful only if the spreadsheet is in CSV format. If you run into problems, please do not hesitate to email the files to us. We do not want the online validation to be an impediment to your successful submission. If you want more personalized help in submitting the data as a result of this change, do not hesitate to send an email to stats@arl.org and set up a phone call consultation. Use “Percent” to determine if an employee works full-time or part-time. All full-time employees have Percent =1.00, i.e., they work 100% of a full-time schedule. If percent is less than 1.00, then the employee works that fraction of a full-time schedule. For example, a 65% time appointment would be entered as 0.65. Calculate the percent appointment by dividing the amount of time an employee works by the amount considered to be the norm for full-time