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College and Research Libraries Comparing Libraries of Public Historically Black Colleges and Universities with Their White Counterparts Jim Gravois As one element in the effort to desegregate public institutions of higher education, federal courts have mandated the upgrading of libraries at public historically Black colleges and universities. This preliminary study compares the libraries of public HBCUs with those of traditionally White public colleges across eighteen states, mostly in the Southeast. By ana­ lyzing number of volumes, staff, and salary totals, the study identifies states that have made efforts to upgrade their HBCU libraries and those that have not. n the years following the 1954 from enrolling at public non-HBCUs. The ruling in Brown v. Board of Edu­ second mandated the upgrading of cur­ cation, public colleges through­ ricula, facilities, and libraries at public out the southern and border HBCUs to attract White students to those 11 2 states opened their doors to African schools. Have the various states dedi­ American students. As a result, young Af­ cated the funding needed to improve their rican Americans wishing to attend a state public HBCU libraries? Would a snapshot college now have a choice between his­ comparison of public HBCU libraries torically Black colleges and universities with public non-HBCU libraries verify (HBCUs) and the former all-White col­ such improvement? This question moti­ leges and universities (non-HBCUs). vated the author to undertake this pre­ However, despite the open doors of non­ liminary investigation. HBCUs, 107HBCUs-two-year and four­ year, public and private-continue to Literature Review thrive.1 In a 1985 study of HBCUs by the U.S. Federal courts approached racial seg­ Department of Education, Susan T. Hill regation in higher education in two ways. explained that the libraries of public four­ The obvious way involved abolishing ad­ year HBCUs held sixty-five volumes per missions policies that prohibited Blacks student compared to sixty-two volumes Jim Gravois is a Reference Librarian in the Microforms and Documents Department at the Ralph Brown Draughon Library at Auburn University, Alabama; e-mail: [email protected]. The au­ thor wishes to thank Diane Thorn e, Linda Thornton, and Harmon Straiton, all of Auburn University Libraries, for assistance with this article. 519 520 College & Research Libraries November 1995 for other public four-year institutions.3 report all items of data. The author chose Although Hill's study examined many those categories of information which other areas of information about HBCUs, were most widely available: student en­ this was the only comparison made be­ rollment, total number of volumes, total tween the libraries of HBCUs and tradi­ library salary expenditure, total library tionally White colleges. staff, and the breakdown of professional In an attempt to update and broaden and nonprofessional staff. Staff totals in­ Hill's work on libraries of public HBCUs, clude only full-time equivalent library this author conducted a thorough search employees. Items not reported enough in of library literature. Although several in­ order to make valid comparisons for this vestigators, including Jessie Smith and study included total library budget and Robert Molyneux, have published good expenditures for new materials. Using the studies of these libraries, no one appears six categories above, the author entered to have made an effort to compare the li­ the data into a PC-SAS database and ma­ braries of public HBCUs with their non­ nipulated the data to produce the follow­ HBCU counterparts either generally or on ing areas of comparison: a state-by-state basis.4 In addition, even • volumes per student, though Molyneux's survey is more de­ • salary expenditure per student, tailed than this one, he did not include • salary expenditure per library staff all the public HBCUs in the country and member, made no comparisons at all with non­ • total library staff per hundred stu­ HBCUs. dents, • professional library staff per hun­ Methodology dred students, and In contrast to Molyneux's 1989 study, this • professional librarians as a percent­ study aims to gather published library age of the staff. statistics and arrange them so that com­ When a particular piece of information parisons can be made between public was not available in the American Library HBCU libraries and public non-HBCU Directory, 1993-94, the author consulted libraries. The first step involved identi­ The College Blue Book. 8 Three HBCU librar­ fying all the public four-year HBCUs and ies directly supplied missing data (Ala­ all the public non-HBCUs in the same bama State University, Mississippi Valley states. The U.S. Department of Education State University, and Alcorn A&M). Fi­ provided this information.5 The author nally, the author decided to use the then compiled a list of thirty-eight public Molyneux figures for two nonresponding four-year HBCUs and 186 corresponding HBCUs (Albany State and Central State). non-HBCUs. The study dropped West Virginia's two HBCUs because of their Results dwindling Black enrollment-about ten The study looked at 222 public four-year percent of the student body-perhaps in­ colleges in eighteen states, including dicating a successful effort by West Vir­ thirty-six HBCUs and 186 non-HBCUs. ginia to comply with court orders.6 A The eighteen states, with number of complete list of the thirty-six remaining HBCUs in parentheses, are: Alabama (2), HBCUs in this study, the degree level, and Arkansas (1), Delaware (1), Florida (1), the percentage of Black students attend­ Georgia (3), Kentucky (1), Louisiana (3), ing appears in table 1. Maryland (4), Missouri (2), Mississippi The primary source of library data was (3), North Carolina (5), Ohio (1), Okla­ Bowker's American Library Directory homa (1), Pennsylvania (2), South Caro­ 1993-94.7 A quick perusal of this direc­ lina (1), Tennessee (1), Texas (2), and Vir­ tory showed that many libraries failed to ginia (2). Comparing Libraries 521 TABLEt HBCU Colleges Degree Percentage College State Level Black AlabamaA&M AL M 79.0 Alabama State AL M 98.0 Albany State GA M 84.7 Alcorn State MS M 94.2 Arkansas-Pine Bluff AR B 81.0 Bowie State MD M 67.2 Central State OH B 88.2 Cheyney University PA M 94.1 Coppin State MD M 91.5 Delaware State DE M 62.1 Elizabeth City State NC B 73.7 Fayetteville State NC M 62.6 FloridaA&M FL D 88.4 Fort Valley State GA M 92.8 Grambling State LA M 94.5 Harris-Stowe State MO B 75.3 Jackson State MS D 94.0 Kentucky State KY M 49.7 Langston University OK B 51.3 Lincoln University PA M 92.2 Lincoln University MO M 25.8 Maryland-Eastern Shore MD D 68.9 Mississippi Valley St. MS M 99.4 Morgan State MD D 92.8 Norfolk State VA M 83.9 North Carolina Central NC D 83 .6 North Carolina A & T NC M 84.6 Prairie View A & M TX M 86.5 Savannah State GA M 89.7 South Carolina State sc D 93.6 Southern-Baton Rouge LA D 93.9 Southern-New Orleans LA M 93.8 Tennessee State TN D 63.0 Texas Southern TX D 83.0 Virginia State VA M 90.2 Winston-Salem State NC B 77.9 Sources: State Higher Education Profiles: 1992 and Chronicle ofHigher Education, Feb. 23, 1994. 522 College & Research Libraries November 1995 General Comparisons The next three comparisons examine This section examines the averages for all staffing. Are HBCU libraries able to hire the HBCUs as a group, compared to the staff at an equitable level with non-HBCU non- HBCUs as a group. Following Hill's libraries? Because staffing data were lack­ approach, the first area of comparison is ing for one of the non-HBCUs, there are volumes per student. In this category, the only 221 colleges in this set. In the first non-HBCUs hold 66.22 books per stu­ measurement, staff per student, the aver­ dent, slightly ahead of the HBCU aver­ age for non-HBCUs is .544 and for HBCUs age of 64.81. (See table 2 for the figures it is .547 staff per hundred students. cited in this section.) The second staff measurement is pro­ The next two measurements examine fessional librarians per student. The non­ salary. Six non-HBCUs gave no data on HBCUs have .196 professionals per hun­ salaries, leaving a total of 216 libraries. dred students, compared to .226 for the Because of the inconsistency of data in HBCUs. the American Library Directory 1993-94, it The last measurement in this staffing is not possible to compare salaries paid category is professional librarians as a to librarians directly. But figures for to­ percentage of the staff. Here the HBCUs tal salary expenditures by each library seem to have an advantage. Profession­ make it possible to calculate some indi­ als make up only 36.0 percent at non­ rect comparisons. The comparisons used HBCUs, while the HBCUs have 41.2 per­ are total salary expenditure per enrolled cent of their staff as professional librar­ student and total salary expenditure per ians. full-time equivalent library staff mem­ ber. Because the Directory's total includes Comparisons by Degree Level the salary expenses for student workers, Because it is reasonable to expect a doc­ the averages for salary per staff obtained torate-granting institution to have a li­ in this study will be higher than the true brary larger or more extensive than one average salaries paid to library staff. In at an institution that does not grant doc­ this salary area, the study finds a pro­ toral degrees, the author has broken nounced difference between HBCUs and down his analysis to compare the librar­ non-HBCUs.
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