A Demographic and Career Profile of Canadian Research University Librarians

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 540-550

  Fox, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

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EID: 34548652300     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. 8Rs Research Team, The Future of Human Resources in Canadian Libraries (Edmonton, AB: Canadian Library Human Resource Study, 2005), 275p. Available: www.ls.ualberta.ca/8rs/8RsFutureofHRLibraries.pdf (December 15, 2006).
2. The university members of CARL are: Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, Carleton, Concordia, Dalhousie, Guelph, Laval, Manitoba, McGill, McMaster, Memorial, Montréal, New Brunswick, Ottawa, Québec à Montréal, Queen's, Regina, Saskatchewan, Sherbrooke, Simon Fraser, Toronto, Victoria, Waterloo, Western Ontario, Windsor, and York.
3. The author is grateful to the 8Rs Research Team for providing access to the 8Rs CARL subset for further analysis.
4. CARL Statistics 2004-2005, Table VIII-Summary of Library Personnel (Ottawa, ON: Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2006): p. 29.
5. Email addresses for the Scholarship Survey were collected from listings on university public Web sites. In several cases these listings were checked and verified by Directors or librarians at the various institutions.
6. CARL Statistics, op. cit.
7. 8Rs Research Team, p. 44.
8. Canadian Association of University Teachers, CAUT Almanac of Post-Secondary Education 2006: Distribution of Librarians by Age, Fig. 2.8, p. 19. Available: http://www.caut.ca/en/publications/almanac/2006-2.pdf (December 15, 2006).
9. CARL Statistics, Section D: Salaries: Table VI-Average and Median Salary per Year of Professional Experience-Librarian Positions only, 2002-2003: pp. 74-75; 2005-2006: pp. 60-61.
10. 8Rs Research Team, Table C.8, p. 45.
11. Krishna Pendakur, "Visible Minorities in Canada's Workplaces-A Perspective on the 2017 Projection" (May 2005). Available: http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/multi/canada2017/3_e.cfm (February 18, 2007).
12. Statistics Canada, "Aboriginal peoples of Canada: A demographic profile" (January 2003) p. 5. Available: http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/Products/Analytic/companion/abor/pdf/96F0030XIE2001007.pdf February 26, 2007).
13. 8Rs Research Team, Appendix Table C.6, p. 210.
14. Pendakur, "Visible Minorities in Canada's Workplaces-A Perspective on the 2017 Projection," op. cit.
15. Statistics Canada, "Education in Canada: Raising the standard" (March 2003) pp. 9, 16. Available: http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/Products/Analytic/companion/educ/pdf/96F0030XIE2001012.pdf (February 26, 2007).
16. CARL Statistics, 2005-2006: pp. 60-61.
17. CARL Statistics 2003-2004, p. 6; 2004-2005, p. 5.
18. Several of these individuals were archivists. In the CARL universities archivists often report to the Director of Libraries, and are governed by the same collective agreements and conditions for promotion and tenure as librarians.
19. 8Rs Research Team, Appendix Table G.2, p. 116.
20. This number excludes Scholarship Survey participants without MLIS or BLS degrees and participants who failed to answer this question.
21. CARL Statistics, Section D: Salaries 2005-2006. Table II, III, pp. 55-56.
22. 8Rs Research Team, Fig. F1, p. 101.
23. Ibid., p. 102 (The 8Rs Survey also asked how many different organizations a person had worked for throughout her/his career. These data are not reported in The Future of Human Resources in Canadian Libraries and remain to be analyzed.)
24. Fig. 6 shows that for 47 percent of the Scholarship Survey respondents the difference between Years of Professional Practice as a University Librarian and Years of Employment at Current University was zero.
25. For twenty-eight members (6 percent) of the 8Rs CARL University Subset responses to the question "How long have you worked at your current organization?" exceeded their answers to the question "How long have you worked in this career?"
26. Association of College and Research Libraries, "Guidelines for Academic Status for College and University Librarians" (June 2002). Available: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/guidelinesacademic.htm (December 15, 2006).
27. ACRL, "Standards for Faculty Status for College and University Librarians" (January 2001). Available: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/standardsfaculty.htm (December 15, 2006).
28. 8Rs Research Team, Table C.4, p. 41.
29. Temporary positions were called "Term" positions in the Scholarship Study.
30. The Position Status response options for the Scholarship Survey were: Probationary, Permanent, Term, Full-time, Part-time, Tenured (or equivalent), Tenure Track, Non-Tenured, and Other.
31. 8Rs Research Team, Table C.2, p. 39.
32. Ibid., Table I.12b, p. 157.
33. Leckie G.J., and Brett J. Job Satisfaction of Canadian University Librarians: A National Survey. College & Research Libraries 58 (1997 (January)) 35
34. 8Rs Research Team, Appendix Table C1, p. 209.
35. ARL Annual Salary Survey 2005-2006, Table 34: Number and Average Salaries of Canadian University Librarians by Years of Experience and Sex, p. 61. Available: http://www.arl.org/stats/pubpdf/ss05.pdf (December 15, 2006).
36. Stanley Wilder, "The Changing Profile of Research Library Professional Staff," ARL 208/209 (February/April 2000). Available: http://www.arl.org/newsltr/208_209/chgprofile.html (December 15, 2006).
37. CAUT Almanac 2006, op. cit.
38. Wilder, "The Changing Profile of Research Library Professional Staff," op.cit.
39. Leckie and Brett, "Job Satisfaction of Canadian University Librarians: A National Survey," p. 31.
40. Millard D.M. Why Do We Stay? Survey of Long-Term Academic Librarians in Canada". portal: Libraries & the Academy 3 (2003, January) 104-105
41. Wilder, "The Changing Profile of Research Library Professional Staff," op. cit.
42. Curran W.M. Succession: The next ones at bat. College and Research Libraries 64 (2003, March) 137
43. Ibid., p. 138.