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11 TALL Newsl. 1 (1991-1992)

handle is hein.journals/tallquart11 and id is 1 raw text is: Vol. 11, No. 1 TALL NEWSLETTER T R N S SO IATION O L LIB ARI S TALL Salary Survey Questions/Comments by the Membership on the Salary Survey Questionnaire Salary Survey Committee In February 1991 the TALL Salary Survey Committee undertook its biannual survey of the TALL membership and its libraries in order to get (hopefully) an accurate picture of the salaries of librarians and library technicians in the Toronto area. In order to make the salary as simple (and accurate) as possible, many of the questions which had been asked in previous TALL salary surveys (such as number of students, size of collection, services offered etc) were not asked this year. The purpose was to determine salary levels only and match them against position, education, years of experience and size of firm. To this end we feel that the survey was successful Some of those who completed the comments or asked questions about the survey itself This report is an attempt to answer queries that our members had 1. Have you considered how benefits contribute to the overall survey? In previous years the survey did tabulate the types of benefits, such as vacation time, health and dental plans, insurance policies, etc. This was not included this year as it was felt by the members of the committee that benefits are not negotiable and, therefore, of less interest than in the past, when many institutions, especially private law firms, offered very few benefits. It appears from the response that we had that the number of vacation days may be negotiable in some circumstances and we have made a recommendation to the TALL Executive that the number of vacation days be surveyed in the future. 2. Do law firms of a certain size hire only technicians because they can pay them less or because they do not know the difference? Do very large firms that just employ technicians and call them librarians get value to the same degree that equivalent major firms get from their MLS employees? Do they know the difference (if any) in the quality of the service? Do they care? Do they just consider law clerks to be lawyers, so technicians and librarians are interchangeable too? Interesting questions, Committee. survey asked made but outside of the mandate of the 3. Do you have any data or information that would prove the value added a GOOD librarians brings to a firm? Can you prove that the firm would be less profitable with a good librarian providing good library services that are completely attuned to the goals and objectives and needs of the firm? What is a good librarian? What are the criteria of goodness? Who decides? As with the previous questions, this questions nurtures a hidden agenda. A number of articles that have been written over the years in support of hiring librarians in firms. Again, individuals holding librarians positions have, as in any job or profession, various levels of skills and abilities to perform their jobs. 4. The TALL Salary Survey is an excellent information source Continued on page 4 IN THIS ISSUE Features TALL Salary Survey: Questions/Comments by the Membership on the Salary Survey Q uestionnaire ................................... I CLIC Forum on Access to Government Electronic Information on Law .......... I1 How a Government Bill Becomes Law. 5 Regular Columns Editor's N otes ...................................... 2 Automation Committee News ....... 10 Book Review ....................... I Bibliographic N otes ............................. 2 ... there will be some changes made ... I 0 ~October, 1991

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