March 16, 2009
Librarians Confront New Uncertainties Over Training and Jobs
Seattle
How many academic librarians does the world need? More than it’s likely to have in a few years, as the baby-boom generation ages out of the work force, the prevailing theory has been. But the economic crisis may be changing that, and the job prospects and skills of tomorrow's librarians were hot topics at the 14th biannual conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, which ended here on Sunday. Preliminary figures showed 3,036 registrants for this year's conference—a
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