Maternity and Paternity Policies Available to Academic Librarians

Ruth Sara Connell is Associate Professor of Library Services and Electronic Services Librarian at Valparaiso University; e-mail: [email protected]. Thanks to Drs. Fred and Tschera Connell for their helpful comments and feedback on earlier versions of this paper. ©2013 Ruth Sara Connell, AttributionNonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC This study examines how frequently parental leave and other related childcare policies are available to academic librarians across the United States. It also looks at the relationships between policies offered and types of academic libraries that offer those policies. The author surveyed administrators at academic libraries serving baccalaureate, master’s, and research institutions and discovered that benefits available to academic librarians are not as generous as those available to faculty, and that tenured and tenure-track librarians fare better than counterparts who are not eligible for tenure.