117 ARL Annual Salary Survey 2015–2016 6 MEDIA Media/Multimedia Specialists (including graphics) PRES Preservation/Conservation, including digital collections SSPEC Subject Specialist (may include Specialized Reference, Collection Dev., Faculty Liaison, Instruction, Embedded roles, etc.) Clinical librarians would be included here. HFA Subject specialist in Humanities/Fine Arts SCI Subject Specialist in Sciences &Tech. SBS Subject Specialist in Social/Behavior Sci. AREA Area Studies Subject Specialist (for those with country, geographic area or language specialization) CAT/METADATA Catalogers, and metadata analysts, both general and specialized RES/REF/INSTR General research, reference and instruction librarians (typically for undergraduate students) include instructional technology here no collection development responsibilities. PUBS Public Services, non-supervisory, except reference librarians TECH Technical Services, non-supervisory, except catalogers The position categories used in this survey are intended to correspond roughly with the nomenclature activities carried on in libraries, not with any particular pattern of staff organization. Please use these categories in the manner you feel best applies to your library. If any individual has responsibilities described by more than one of the above categories, choose the category that is most typical of his/her general duties. Choose ONE job code for employees with dual appointments or shared responsibilities. Such individuals should be listed on the salary survey only once. Associate or Assistant Director, or Head, Other Branch. Use this code for all persons responsible for the management of a separate facility, regardless of the area of specialty. If an assistant or associate director is also head of a department in such a facility, choose the category that most reflects the general duties of the person currently in the position. Department Heads. Department Heads not specifically included in the above list should be included under the category “Head, Other Department/Service/Agency.” Head, Catalog Department should be used either for the department that handles all cataloging, or for the head of a specialized cataloging unit (e.g. copy cataloging or foreign languages). List the head of library technology and computer systems, applications, programming, etc. as HDCOMP unless that person is also an Associate or Assistant Director, in which case use the appropriate administrative code. If there is an intermediate level of management between an Associate or Assistant Director and the professionals who actually carry out the analysis, programming, etc., use HDCOMP to