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Too many librarians, or not enough?July 2, 2007I have a small confession to make. I'm a "lurker." I'm not the creepy type that hangs out by the freshman dorms (anyone who tells you otherwise is a dirty liar). I'm the cyber type who tools around on blogs, reads discussion boards and subscribes to listserves, and I never submit a post or leave a comment. I listen in on all this Web 2.0 dialog and then I'm gone. I'm like a geeky voyeur ninja. No one ever new I was there. The only record of my presence is an additional count on the pages' statistics, and maybe the uneasy feeling that someone passed through. The reason I'm admitting this is because recently my inbox has been filling up from posts to the NEW-LIB listserve. I seriously spent a good hour going through them all today, and I was pretty much just skimming each message. It can generate a lot of email, but it's a great place to lurk. The most recent debate is basically: "are there any library jobs out there or not?" As I will be graduating with my MLS in a year, I have a bit of a vested interest in this discussion. The debate seems to be split into two camps. Camp one seems to think that there are going to be lots of library jobs out there for several reasons including: the aging population of current librarians, the need for librarians who grew up in a digital environment, and the expansion of the profession into non-traditional settings. I like camp one. Then there is camp two. Camp two, which appears to be comprised of mostly out-of-work librarians, seems to think that paraprofessionals are taking all the traditional librarian jobs, tight budgets are restricting hiring, and there is some sort of conspiracy where library schools are overplaying the need for librarians to enroll as many hopeful young liberal arts graduates as they can. Camp two scares me. So, which one is it? When I hit the job market in a year or so, am I going to venture into a vast wasteland of disappointment and frustration, or a lush forest of opportunity and success? Should I believe in the optimism of camp one, or the pessimism of camp two? Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated. Posted by Michael Wirtz on July 2, 2007 | Comments (25)
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