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Monday, 12th July 2010

Report Highlights: The Survey of Academic Librarians: Satisfaction with Library Employment

Primary Research has just released a new report (1-57440-154-8) about academic librarians and employment satisfaction. Like all Primary Research reports the full text is fee-based. Pricing info can be found at the top of this page.

However, Primary Research almost always shares a few findings from the report at no charge.

Selected Findings

+ Less than 6% of academic librarians were dissatisfied to any degree with their job security while more than 72% were satisfied.

+ Twice as high a percentage of females than males were dissatisfied to any degree with their relationship with library management.

+ Only 1.7% of librarians sampled report dissatisfaction with their relationship with students.

+ 14% of librarians sampled are dissatisfied with the quality of the office, furnishings and general creature comforts in their library. Librarians in cataloging and technical services were the most unhappy.

+ 11.35% of librarians sampled say that they have been the victim of sexual harassment in their current or some previous library job.

+ 20.69% of Canadian librarians in the sample felt there was gender bias in their libraries.

+ More than 87% said that they would take a job with their current library employer if they had to do it all over again.

About the Survey

[The survey] presents the results of a survey of 555 academic librarians about how they view various aspects of their treatment as employees, their career prospects and their relationship with faculty, students, and library administration The report includes detailed information on levels of satisfaction with salary, retirement, job security and health benefits, office surroundings, physical security and other aspects of the library work experience. It also gives precise information on academic librarian experiences with sexual harassment, and views on the existence of prejudice related to race, income, ethnicity, age, gender and other factors. Data is presented in the aggregate and broken out by various characteristics such as gender, age, library work title or field, institutional enrollment, Carnegie class, level of education, USA or Canada and other factors.

The report runs 119 pages and contains approximately 250 tables.

Source: Primary Research

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