A Statistical Survey of 67 Library Schools, 1978-79.

Abstract

THIS IS the sixth survey of faculty salaries and related data for library educators to appear in the Journal of Education for Librarianship. As in past years, the writer is indebted to the deans and directors of the A.L.A. accredited programs for sharing with him the sensitive data on which these statistics are based. The list of schools for 1978-79 is longer than for any previous year because of the favorable decisions of the Committee on Accreditation during the A.L.A. 1979 Midwinter meeting regarding four programs that had not appeared on the accredited list for 1977-78: Alberta, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and San Jose. The closing of the program at the University of Oregon, however, has reduced the net gain to three, for a total of 67 accredited programs in 1979. The head of each of these 67 library schools responded to the writer's request for faculty data, although two (Brigham Young and Chicago), because of institutional rules on the revelation of individual salaries, omitted that item in their response. Data were requested on all full-time faculty, including deans and directors, as of January 1, 1979, whose total salaries were part of the library school's budget. The names of faculty were not requested, of course. In addition to individuals' salaries (whether for the academic year or the fiscal year), their faculty rank, sex, tenure status, and whether they pos-