According to a statement by Secretary of Labor, Hilda L. Solis, our nation’s labor market added 130,000 private sector jobs in the month of April, while the unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent, its lowest level in three years. Over the last four months, we’ve added an average of 207,000 private sector jobs.… Read the rest
Category Archives: Statistics
Solis: April 2012 Sees 130,000 New Jobs, and Unemployment Falls to 8.1 Percent
This article is from the May 2012 issue.
Recovery Is “Durable,” Reports DOL. How Is Your Library Recovering?
This article is from the April 2012 issue.
Our nation’s labor market added 121,000 private sector jobs in the month of March, while the unemployment rate fell to 8.2 percent. For 25 consecutive months, we’ve registered private sector job growth. Secretary Hilda Solis of the U.S. Department of Labor said, “Some months we are seeing tremendous job gains, while other months we are seeing more modest gains. But the trend line is clear: Our economy is growing, and our recovery is durable.”
Has your library added to … Read the rest
Employer-sponsored health insurance coverage declines for tenth year in a row
This article is from the March 2012 issue.
By Elise Gould, Director of Health Policy Research
For the tenth year in a row, the share of Americans under age 65 covered by employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) has decreased. “A decade of declines in employer-sponsored health insurance coverage,” a new Economic Policy Institute report, finds that the share of Americans under age 65 covered by ESI fell from 59.4 percent in 2009 to 58.6 percent in 2010, for an overall decline of 10.6 percentage points from 2000–10. However, … Read the rest
Women’s Employment Gains Stagnant Between October 2009 and August 2011
This article is from the December 2011 issue.
Analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) indicates that as of August 2011, the employment gap between women and men in the wake of the economic recession has continued to grow. Data for the analysis is pulled from the Current Employment Statistics Program’s September 2 report.
The following are included among IWPR’s observations and conclusions:
- In October 2009, employment for men and women reached parity as a result of men’s job loss.
- In the recovery, however, men’s employment
Merit Pay Most Often Used in Compensation for Public and Academic Librarians
This article is from the September 2011 issue.
A Report from the 2010 Librarian Salary Survey supplemental questions
In addition to providing compensation data in every Salary Survey: Librarian – Public and Academic, ALA-APA also collects and publishes supplemental data on different topics. The second and third supplemental questions in the 2010 survey request data on compensation strategies used by libraries.
The survey was sent in January 2010 to a sample of 957 public and 715 academic libraries, using a proportional sampling procedure. By … Read the rest
Identify, Brainstorm, Utilize: A Summary of ALA-APA’s Annual Conference Program “MBA for Librarians: Statistics”
This article is from the August 2011 issue.
In her June 27 presentation at this year’s ALA Conference, “MBA for Librarians: Statistics,” Diana Very explained “how to use statistics for library decision-making.” Very assured audience members that, though the vocabulary and mathematics of statistics may initially intimidate, one can make … Read the rest
José-Marie Griffiths/Donald W. King: Public libraries are particularly essential in recessions
This article is from the August 2011 issue.
Griffiths and King examine the effects of the recession on library use by summarizing several federally-funded surveys. The following statistics are among their findings:
- Every year over the past 20 years, visits to public libraries have increased by over 2 billion each year.
- Jumps in use during recessions are not temporary; once a given recession ends, use remains as high or nearly as high
How Did You Celebrate National Library Workers Day?
This article is from the May 2011 issue.
National Library Workers Day worked because you did! ALA-APA received 499 Stars nominations in 2011. This year, to accompany descriptions of stellar achievements, ALA-APA encouraged nominators to submit photos of Star employees. And nominating Star employees is only one way library employees and patrons around the world recognized the efforts of their local library workers. Below we profile several NLWD celebrations from around the country.
Charting the Stars
Sixty-two percent of 2011 nominees work in public libraries, … Read the rest
Rising Number of Librarians Covered by Collective Bargaining Agreements
This article is from the December 2010 issue.
A Report from the 2010 Librarian Salary Survey supplemental questions
In addition to compensation data it offers in every Salary Survey: Librarian – Public and Academic, ALA-APA also collects and publishes supplemental data on different topics. The 2010 survey provides data on the number of library employees who are covered by collective bargaining agreements. The survey finds that, compared to coverage in 1997 and 2005, the number of librarians covered by collective bargaining agreements is on … Read the rest
Librarian salaries jump 3 percent in 2010, Survey reports mean librarian salary $60,734, median $55,883 in 2010
This article is from the September 2010 issue.
CHICAGO – In the midst of tough economic times, job shortages and cutbacks, the 2010 edition of the ALA-APA Salary Survey: Librarian – Public and Academic revealed average increases across all six position types, ranging from two percent for managers of support staff to 13 percent for directors of public and academic libraries. More than 580 library directors and human resources staff reported more than 11,000 salaries, giving this year’s survey a remarkable 35 percent response rate. The data are … Read the rest
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