Today’s headlines come from an ARL Salary Survey; a Flavorwire ranking of college library buildings; AAP trade book sales; an author challenge to ebook royalties; Science retracts paper.
ARL Salary Survey: U.S. Academic Librarians’ Salaries Up 1.5 Percent.
“The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) released its annual salary survey today which showed academic librarians’ salaries in 2010-2011 increased 1.5 percent in the United States and two percent in Canada.
In its ARL Annual Salary Survey 2010-2011, the organization reports that the median salary for U.S. ARL university libraries in 2010-2011 was $65,000, up from $64,069 in 2009-2010. Though a greater percentage increase than the previous year, when median salaries rose .6 percent, it is the second-smallest percentage increase since at least before 1980, the earliest year provided in the report.”
Beinecke among world’s most beautiful college libraries.
“A set of rankings out this week from Flavorwire ranks the Beinecke (Yale University) the most beautiful college library in America and the second most beautiful in the world, after only the General Library at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal. Three other Ivy League libraries made the list: the Cornell Law School Library, the Widener Library at Harvard and the Fisher Fine Arts Library at the University of Pennsylvania, placing 18th, 22nd, and 23rd, respectively.” The article list the top twenty five world wide.
Total Trade Book Sales Down 4.5% This Year.
“According to the latest Association of American Publishers (AAP) net sales revenue report, the adult mass paperback category declined nearly 38 percent (to $37.2 million) in October compared to the same period last year. At the same time, adult hardcover sales dropped 17 percent (to $213.3 million) while eBook sales increased 81 percent (to $72.8 million). Above, we’ve embedded the AAP’s sales chart for the year-to-date–including a 4.5 percent decline in total trade revenues the year so far… The October report represents data provided by 80 publishers.”
Michael Chabon Challenges Publishers On Digital Royalties.
Author Michael Chabon “told The AP that he likes the 50/50 cut he’ll be taking from Open Road Integrated Media, who just published five of the author’s backlist titles digitally including Wonder Boys and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.” However he is not as happy with the deal that he is getting from his traditional print publishers.” Chabon told The Washington Post: “I agreed to the traditional e-book royalty, which I think is criminally low, because I didn’t really have any legs to stand on … When it’s comes to royalties on a paper book, that rate (25 percent) is completely fair when you think of the expenses a publisher takes on — the delivery trucks and the factory workers and the distribution chains. But it’s not fair for them to take a roughly identical royalty for an e-book that costs them nothing to produce.”
In a Rare Move, Science Without Authors’ Consent Retracts Paper.
“After enduring more than 2 years of criticism that included evidence of contamination and misrepresentation of data, a Science paper that linked a mouse retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) today received its last rites: Editor-in-Chief Bruce Alberts issued a full retraction.”
INFOdocket reports that “John Unsworth, who joined the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) as dean in 2003, has accepted a new position as vice provost and chief information officer for library and technology services at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He will begin at Brandeis in mid-February.” (The full report comes from the GSLIS Newsroom.)
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