Charting academic library staffing: Data from national surveys

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-68

  Applegate, Rachel ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33847067951     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.68.1.59     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. Stephanie Maatta, "Jobs! (Eventually)," Library Journal 129 (Oct. 15, 2004): 28-35;
2. S. Maatta, "Salaries Stalled, Jobs Tight," Library Journal 128 (Oct. 15, 2003): 28-32, 34.
3. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, "Librarians," Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05 Edition. Available online at www.bls.gov/oco/ocos068.htm. [Accessed 17 August 2005].
4. Jennifer Mayer and Lori J. Terrill, "Academic Librarians' Attitudes About Advanced-Subject Degrees," College & Research Libraries 66 (2005): 59-73.
5. Mary K. Bolin, "The Library and the Computer Center: Organizational Patterns at Land Grant Universities," Journal of Academic Librarianship 31 (2005): 3-11.
6. Association of College and Research Libraries. 2004. Standards for Libraries in Higher Education. Available online at www.ala.org/ala/acrl/ acrlstandards/standardslibraries.htm. [Accessed 30 November 2004].
7. Personal communication.
8. H.A. Thompson, "ACRL Wraps up Year 1 of Academic Library Statistics Project: How You Can Get the Results," College & Research Libraries News 60 (Oct. 1999): 760-61.
9. Currently available online at http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/libraries/ compare/index.asp?LibraryType-Academic. [Accessed 18 August 2005]. The site has moved frequently, so an ed.gov or Google search may be the most effective means of accessing it.
10. Eighty-eight institutions did not respond; four doctoral-extensive universities: University of Delaware, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, California Institute of Technology, and Stanford University; five doctoral-intensive; nineteen masters-I; eleven masters-II, and forty-nine baccalaureate institutions. Their total student FTE is 188,420, which is 2.5% of the 7,475,111 FTE for all institutions.
11. Definitions from the IPEDS Web site. Available online at http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/. [Accessed 20 July 2005].
12. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "Table 175. Total fall enrollment in degree-granting institutions, by control and type of institution: 1965 to 2001," Digest of Education Statistics, 2003. Available online at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/ d03/tables/dt175.asp. [Accessed 18 August 2005).
13. IPEDS, see above.
14. "A primary function or occupational activity category used to classify persons whose specific assignments customarily are made for the purpose of conducting instruction or teaching and who hold academic titles of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, lecturer or the equivalent. Includes deans, directors, or the equivalent, as well as associate deans, assistant deans, and executive officers of academic departments (chairpersons, heads, or equivalent) if their principal activity is instruction," text from the "Definition Bank," ANSWERS. Available online at http://highered.org/answers/products/definitionsearch3.asp. [Accessed 20 August 2005].
15. Access to the database is available by contacting the author, Rachel Applegate, at: rapplega@iupui.edu.