This study describes the political participation of a random sample of academic librarians in North Carolina as determined from analysis of mailed surveys that they completed. The questionnaire asked the study participants to answer questions testing their political knowledge, to rate the political participation of themselves and others, to respond to various statements about political participation, to describe their activities, and to give some demographic information about themselves. Major sections of the questionnaire were repeated from similar studies done in 1976 by Edward James Sheary and in 1966 by Frances Goins Wilhoit in order to assess the changes that have occurred in academic librarians' political participation over time. Throughout this study and the two prior studies, political participation is measured on a 5-level scale with values ranging from (1) No political participation to (5) Belonging to political groups or holding office
