Brief Description: Subject file on the Personnel Administration Section and its predecessors, the Board on Personnel Administration (1944-56), Board on Salaries, Staff and Tenure (1937-44) and the Office of Personnel Administration (1945-55) contains correspondence, minutes, reports (1933-51), budgets and statements of expenditures (1934-55), publications BPA Notes (1954-56) and Newsletters (1957) and surveys relating to staff activities, division operations, annual conferences (1955-57), buildings and equipment (1959), civil service procedures (1937-43, 1954-56), classification and pay plans (1924-56), clinics and institutes (1939, 1947-59), committees and subcommittees on budgets, compensation and schemes of service (1939-52), civil service (1941-46, 1952), classification and pay plans (1938-40, 1943, 1946-47, 1949-56), code of ethics (1937-38, 1953-59), placement services (1952-56), post-war planning (1943-44), salaries (1932); cost of living (1952-53), examinations, group insurance, handbooks and manuals (1950-56), hours of work, in-service training, leaves of absence, recruitment, retirement, salary schedules and pay plans (1952-55), salary standards (1952-55), Staff Organization Round Table (1952-57), statistics (1939-41, 1946, 1952, 1954-56), tenure (1939- 56), turnover and work week, includes files of the ALA Committee on Salaries, Employment and Schemes of Library Service (1930-37).

Record Series Number: 27/13/6

Created by: Personnel Administrative Section, Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA)

Volume: 12.0 Cubic Feet

Acquired: 04/26/1974. 1/18/1981, 2/7/2018

Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by accession and by subject title thereunder

Biographical Note for Personnel Administrative Section :

The Executive Board of the ALA created the Board on Personnel Administration on July 17, 1936 (1).  In June 1937, Council changed its name to the Board on Salaries, Staff and Tenure.  In October, 1940, Council changed its name to the Board on Personnel Administration.  This section is responsible for general personnel administration in all types of libraries.  Illustrative of the fields of interest are the recruitment and promotion of able people to positions of all levels of library service, certification of librarians, fair employment practices, equal employment opportunities, classification and pay plans, inservice training of all professional and non-professional workers, principles of tenure and intellectual freedom, personnel administration, relations between libraries and pertinent municipal and educational agencies, staff management, ethics, personnel measurement, and guidance, and staff welfare programs (2).

Executive Committee

Economic Status, Welfare, and Fringe Benefits

Nominating

Staff Development

Subject Index

Languages of Materials