1. Librarian Salaries report by the BOR-UFF (United Faculty of Florida) for the SUS (Southern University System)
http://www.fiu.edu/~library/about/libsalfinal.pdf

An example of a review and response to falling librarian salaries.

2. "Librarian Salaries Increase 0.7% More Than Other Civilian Workers," by Mary Jo Lynch, October 2003- "Latest ALA survey shows a 3.6% gain"
http://www.ala.org/ala/ors/reports/alasalarysurveysummary.htm

Also see "Librarian Salaries: Annual Increase Drops Below Average" (ALA) September 2001
http://archive.ala.org/hrdr/salaries.html

Public libraries, notes comparison to US Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

3. Equal Pay, Comparable Worth & Faculty Status
http://www2.sjsu.edu/leap/jr/compworth/

Web links from SJSU Library School, California State University (CSU) Librarians.

4. ALA Special Presidential Task Force on Better Salaries and Pay Equity
Final Report, June 2003
http://www.ala-apa.org/bettersalaries_finalrpt.html

A professional ally in this issue.

5. "Justifications for Restructuring the Librarian Series"
Report to the Assembly, December 11, 1998, LAUC Committee on Professional Governance
http://laucr.ucr.edu/cpgreport/

Lots of good stuff here, including:
"...the salaries offered at the lower steps of Assistant Librarian are not competitive."
"The high number of librarians in the top rank and step tends to skew UC's median or average salary statistics upward so that UC appears to compare favorably with the eight institutions across the country to which we are compared."

6. "A Look at Now and Then: Salaries of Academic and Research Librarians"
ACRL, 2003
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ACRL/Events_and_Conferences/terrell.PDF

A good overview of the relationship between faculty and librarian salaries.

7. "RCL (Representative Committee of Librarians, Columbia University) Task Force on Professional Salaries"
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/committees/rcl/salaries-tf.pdf

This report raises the issue of cost of living and the ARL rankings.

8. Medical Library Association Salary Survey
https://www.mlanet.org/members/98salsur/history.html

An example of a narrow subject-specific professional survey.

9. ARL Salary Survey 2002-2003
http://www.arl.org/stats/pubpdf/ss02.pdf

Full text of the survey that UC administration uses to rank librarian salaries.

10. "Salary Calculator" compares for local cost-of-living (kinda fun)
http://www.homefair.com/homefair/calc/salcalc.html

11. Two reports from the California Library Association,
"CLA's Fair Compensation Campaign: Making the Case for Fair Pay," by Anne M. Turner, Fair Compensation Campaign Task Force Chair
http://www.cla-net.org/news/

"Library Unions: a Matrix for Evaluation," by Michael McGrorty, in California Libraries, June 2003
http://www.cla-net.org/news/newsletter/jun03_unions.php

12. "Salary Restructuring for UC Librarians: A Chronological History [1970-1978]," prepared by Myrtis Cochran, UC Berkeley
http://laucr.ucr.edu/cpgreport/App2.html

13. "Librarians' Salaries: A New Approach" Mary Jo Lynch.American Libraries, Oct 1999 v30 i9 p66
http://web5.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/587/349/55023729w3/purl=rc1_EAIM_0_A56749971&dyn=12!xrn_4_0_A56749971?sw_aep=plattsbg_main

includes a description of ALA survey methods and librarian classification categories

compiled 1/21/2004 Lincoln Cushing
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