|
|
 |
|
Viewing report
|
|
|
|
The Survey of Academic Librarians: Satisfaction with Library Employment
Primary Research Group, July 2010, Pages: 119
The Survey of Academic Librarians: Satisfaction with Library Employment, 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.
This study 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. 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 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 in the academic library setting related to race, income, ethnicity, age, gender and other factors.
Just a few of the reports many findings are that:
- 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.
Product samples
A sample for this product is available. Please Login/Register to download this sample.
Customers who bought this item also bought
The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Trends in Compensation, Job Satisfaction, Discrimination and Advancement
The Survey of Academic Librarians: Views of Library Information Literacy Efforts
The Survey of Academic Librarians: Communicating with Library Management
The Survey of Academic Librarians: Use of Associations, Blogs, Listservs, Conferences, & Publications about Libraries
The Survey of Academic Librarians: Opinion of Library Budget Priorities
International Benchmarks for University Departments of Economics & Finance
Academic Interlibrary Loan Benchmarks, 2011 Edition
The Survey of Adult & Continuing Education Programs in Higher Education
The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Level of Faculty Satisfaction with the Academic Library
The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2010-11 Edition
|
|
|
|
