----------------------------Original message---------------------------- This message has been cross-posted to several lists. Please excuse any duplication. ********************************************************************* ARL Announces: 1995-96 ARL Salary Survey Shows Librarians' Salaries Continue to Increase The latest salary information for more than 12,000 library professionals working in academic and research libraries in the United States and Canada is now available in the ARL Annual Salary Survey 1995-96. Survey results show the median salary for academic librarians is $41,901 in 1995-96; the median beginning professional salary is $27,000. This publication presents salary information for different sex and minority staff categories. Note that out of the 101 currently filled directorships in ARL university libraries, 60 are held by men (59%) and 41 are held by women (41%). Of the 842 minority staff in U.S. ARL university libraries (11.32% of all professional staff), 226 are men and 616 are women. The ARL Annual Salary Survey also includes separate sections for professional staff in: * Canadian libraries * Law libraries * Medical libraries Tables display average, median, and beginning professional salaries. Average salaries are also displayed by position, experience, sex, race, geographic region, and size of library. ************* The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a not-for-profit organization of 119 research libraries in the U.S. and Canada. Its mission is to shape and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. The ARL Statistics and Measurement works to describe and measure the performance of research libraries and their contribution to research, teaching, scholarship, and community service.Additional information on this and other ARL products and services can be found on the ARL Gopher (gopher://arl.cni.org) and World Wide Web (http://arl.cni.org). ARL ANNUAL SALARY SURVEY 1995-96 COMPILED AND EDITED BY M. KYRILLIDOU AND K. MAXWELL ISSN: 0361-5669 PRICE: $65 PER YEAR (MEMBERS $35) ORDER INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM: [log in to unmask] ********** Statistics Research Assistant Association of Research Libraries 21 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 phone (202) 296-2296 fax (202) 872-0884 email [log in to unmask]