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Your library may have received an invitation to participate in the 2005 Librarian Salary Survey. If so, The American Library Association-Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA) needs your help. Please complete the survey to help us provide information to the library community. ALA has collected and published similar information since 1982. Beginning with the 2005 survey, it is being coordinated by the ALA-APA as part of its mission of "improving the salaries and status of library workers." ALA-APA continues to work in consultation with the ALA Office for Research and Statistics. What will change is the publisher and an expansion of the way data collected and made available. What will not change is the quality of publication or the need for your participation.

The survey concerns salaries paid to librarians with master's degrees from programs in library and information studies accredited by ALA who hold full-time positions in academic and public libraries. This year the survey is being distributed online with the assistance of the Library Research Center (LRC) at the University of Illinois.

The Support Staff Salary Survey is in development.

Please send any comments to jgrady@ala.org or call 1-800-545-2433, x2424.

Thank you.

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