[Eril-l] Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Academic Library Leadership 2024, Hiring Practices & Plans, ISBN 979-8-88517-244-8

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This report looks closely at how academic libraries hire new personnel It
helps its readers to answer questions such as: how many new positions have
become available this year?  What about next year?  How many retirements
are expected?  What are the favorite means used by academic libraries to
find new employees?  How important to them are ads in library publications,
use of hiring boards, specialized library and higher ed websites, listings
with library science schools and other means of finding potential
candidates for opening?   How much do academic libraries spend to search
for candidates?  How many libraries use standing committees for hiring Or
specialized committees for particular positions?

Survey respondents also evaluate their library’s diversity initiatives, as
well as their compensation and benefits packages. They comment on their
plans for the future and evaluate the transparency of the hiring process at
their institution.

Just a few of this 84-page report’s many findings are:

• Research universities in the sample hired a mean of 5.88 new personnel in
the past year.

• Survey respondents under age 50 were far more likely than those age 50
and over to feel that more work was needed to meet diversity goals.

• More than 56% of respondents said their libraries formed ac hoc
committees to seek and choose candidates for particular positions.

• The largest institutions in the sample spent a mean of $4,300 per year to
advertise new position openings.

Data in the report is broken out by numerous institutional and personal
variables such as enrollment size, public/private status, college Carnegie
class or type, and level of tuition for institutions and gender and age for
individual respondents.

For a table of contents, the questionnaire and an excerpt – view the
product page at:

https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=806
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