Library Worklife

Volume 2, No. 2 • February 2005

Salaries & Pay Equity

ALA Pay Equity Committee moving to ALA-APA

At the Midwinter ALA Conference, both ALA and ALA-APA Councils approved that the ALA Pay Equity Committee work with the ALA-APA Standing Committee on the Salaries and Status of Library Workers to transition the mission and members to ALA-APA by the 2006 ALA Annual Conference.

The Committee on Organization (COO) recommended that the committee be fully transferred to ALA-APA, ensuring that the issues of gender equality and representation to the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) are included in the ALA-APA Standing Committee's structure. No new appointments will be made to the ALA Pay Equity Committee as the committee will be dissolved within ALA in 2006. The ALA Pay Equity Committee began in 1984 under the Presidency of Dr. E. J. Josey.