ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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ACRL to Conduct Salary Survey
The Association of College and Research L i

braries will conduct a survey of compensation 
structures of librarians in post-secondary edu
cation for the academic year 1975/76. The 
survey, supported by a grant from the Council 
on Library Resources, will be conducted by 
Richard J. Talbot, director of libraries, Univer
sity of Massachusetts, Amherst, a member of 
ACRL’s Committee on Academic Status and 
Ann von der Lippe also of the University of 
Massachusetts.

The survey is designed to collect valid and 
reliable data on the salaries and fringe benefits 
of librarians working in college and university 
libraries in order to update the third survey 
(1972/73) on salaries prepared by Donald F. 
Cameron and Peggy Heim for the Council on 
Library Resources and to enable comparisons of 
the compensation structures of academic li
brarians and faculty members and comparisons 
among academic librarians.

Questions to be addressed by the survey will 
be: ( 1 )  How much improvement has occurred 
in the economic status of librarians since the 
1972/73 survey? ( 2 )  How do salaries and 
rates of compensation of academic librarians 
compare with those of the classroom faculty? 
Data will also be collected on the numbers of 
women and minorities employed in academic 
libraries and their rates of compensation.

Questionnaires will be mailed on December 1 
to all academic libraries in institutions partici
pating in the surveys of compensation conduct
ed by the American Association of University 
Professors. Preliminary reports of the findings 
will be available in July 1976. The final report 
will be published in October 1976.

A limited supply of copies of previous sur
veys (1969/70, 1970/71, 1972/73) are still 
available from the Council on Library Re
sources, Inc., One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 
620, Washington, DC 20036. ■■

Tentative Schedule 
of ACRL Meetings at Midwinter

This schedule lists only those ACRL meet
ings scheduled as of October 10, 1975. No ad
ditions or corrections made after that date 
appear in this list.

M i d w i n t e r  M e e t i n g
C h i c a g o , I l l i n o i s
J a n u a r y  18-24, 1976

Sunday, January 18
2 :0 0 -4 :0 0  p.m.

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Ex
ecutive Committee

8 :3 0 -1 0 :0 0  p.m.
Choice Editorial Board

Monday, January 19
8 :0 0 -9 :3 0  a.m.

Asian and African Section Executive Com
mittee

College & Research Libraries Editorial 
Board

ACRL Legislation Committee
ACRL Publications in Librarianship Edi

torial Board
University Libraries Section Executive 

Committee 
10:00 a.m .-12:00 noon 

ACRL Board of Directors

Western European Language Specialists 
Discussion Group

1 2 :3 0 -1 :3 0  p.m.
Asian and African Section Nominating 

Committee
2 :0 0 -1 :0 0  p.m.

ACRL Academic Status Committee
Agriculture and Biological Sciences Sec

tion Executive Committee
ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Task 

Force
ACRL Budget and Finance Committee
ACRL Constitution and Bylaws Commit

tee
ACRL Goals, Priorities and Structures 

Subcommittee
ACRL Publications Committee
Rare Books and Manuscripts Section

Manuscripts Collections Committee
ACRL Standards and Accreditation Com

mittee
4 :3 0 -6 :0 0  p.m.

Agriculture and Biological Sciences Sec
tion Executive Committee

ACRL Goals, Priorities and Structures 
Subcommittee

ACRL Publications in Librarianship Edi
torial Board