Librarians have a governance structure similar to other faculties on campus. Librarians are eligible for membership in the faculty governing body. Librarians have salary scales that are equivalent to those for other academic faculty. Librarians are covered by the same tenure policies as other faculty. Librarians are promoted through the ranks via a peer review system.
Librarians are eligible for leaves of absence or sabbaticals.
Librarians have access to funding for research projects. Librarians have the same protections of academic freedom as other faculty. The condition that almost all institutions grant their librarians is academic freedom. Of the respondents, 99.7 percent indicated that their institutions granted librarians the same protections of academic freedom as they did other faculty. But surprisingly, the overwhelming majority of respondents felt that this academic freedom was only partially granted.