Other duties as assigned: Emerging trends in the academic library job market

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 336-347

  Beile, Penny M ^a   Adams, Megan M ^a  

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EID: 0034336748     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.61.4.336     Document Type: Article

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14. Ibid., 50.
15. U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 1996/ 97 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1997); Rayman, "Employment Opportunities for Academic Librarians in the 1970s," 233.
16. U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 1996/ 97 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1997); Rayman, "Employment Opportunities for Academic Librarians in the 1970s," 233.
17. Stanley J. Wilder, The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians: A Profession Apart (Washington, D.C.: ARL, 1995). This report is based on data from the ARI. Annual Salary Survey.
18. Reser and Schuneman, "The Academic Library Job Market," 50.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid., 51.
21. Ibid.
22. American Library Association, Office for Research and Office for Library Personnel Resources, ALA Survey of Librarian Salaries 1995 (Chicago: ALA, 1995).
23. Reser and Schuneman, "The Academic Library Job Market," 51. Reser and Schuneman reported that 46 percent of technical services position advertisements had some type of administrative duties.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid., 52.
26. Furuta, "The Impact of Automation on Professional Catalogers," 250.
27. Towsey, "Nice Work If You Can Get It?" 70.
28. Reser and Schuneman, "The Academic Library Job Market," 62.
29. Ibid., 53.
30. Ibid., 54.
31. Wells, "Requirements and Benefits for Academic Librarians," 453; Holly Williams, "Required and Preferred Qualifications in Entry-Level Library Position Announcements," Mississippi Libraries 61 (winter 1997): 89-91; Joyce C. Wright, "Job Opportunities for Academic and Public Librarians: 1980-1984," Journal of Library Administration 9, no. 2 (1988): 45-58.
32. Wells, "Requirements and Benefits for Academic Librarians," 453; Holly Williams, "Required and Preferred Qualifications in Entry-Level Library Position Announcements," Mississippi Libraries 61 (winter 1997): 89-91; Joyce C. Wright, "Job Opportunities for Academic and Public Librarians: 1980-1984," Journal of Library Administration 9, no. 2 (1988): 45-58.
33. Wells, "Requirements and Benefits for Academic Librarians," 453; Holly Williams, "Required and Preferred Qualifications in Entry-Level Library Position Announcements," Mississippi Libraries 61 (winter 1997): 89-91; Joyce C. Wright, "Job Opportunities for Academic and Public Librarians: 1980-1984," Journal of Library Administration 9, no. 2 (1988): 45-58.
34. Reser and Schuneman, "The Academic Library Job Market," 54.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid., 55.
37. Ibid., 56.
38. For example, Wells, "Requirements and Benefits for Academic Librarians," 453; Wilder, The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians, viii; Xu, "The Impact of Automation on Job Requirements," 242.
39. For example, Wells, "Requirements and Benefits for Academic Librarians," 453; Wilder, The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians, viii; Xu, "The Impact of Automation on Job Requirements," 242.
40. For example, Wells, "Requirements and Benefits for Academic Librarians," 453; Wilder, The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians, viii; Xu, "The Impact of Automation on Job Requirements," 242.
41. Wilder, The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians, x.
42. For example, Furuta, "The Impact of Automation on Professional Catalogers," 242; Peter Spyers-Duran, "The Effects of Automation on Organizational Change, Staffing, and Human Relations in Catalog Departments," in Requiem for the Card Catalog: Management Issues in Automated Cataloging, ed. Daniel Gore, Joseph Kimbrough, and Peter Spyers-Duran (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1979), 29-39; Xu, "The Impact of Automation on Job Requirements," 11.
43. For example, Furuta, "The Impact of Automation on Professional Catalogers," 242; Peter Spyers-Duran, "The Effects of Automation on Organizational Change, Staffing, and Human Relations in Catalog Departments," in Requiem for the Card Catalog: Management Issues in Automated Cataloging, ed. Daniel Gore, Joseph Kimbrough, and Peter Spyers-Duran (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1979), 29-39; Xu, "The Impact of Automation on Job Requirements," 11.
44. For example, Furuta, "The Impact of Automation on Professional Catalogers," 242; Peter Spyers-Duran, "The Effects of Automation on Organizational Change, Staffing, and Human Relations in Catalog Departments," in Requiem for the Card Catalog: Management Issues in Automated Cataloging, ed. Daniel Gore, Joseph Kimbrough, and Peter Spyers-Duran (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1979), 29-39; Xu, "The Impact of Automation on Job Requirements," 11.
45. Ellen Gay Detlefson, "Specialists as Professionals in Research Libraries: An Overview of Trends and an Analysis of Job Announcements," Library Trends 41 (fall 1992): 187-97; Furuta, "The Impact of Automation on Professional Catalogers," 251.
46. Ellen Gay Detlefson, "Specialists as Professionals in Research Libraries: An Overview of Trends and an Analysis of Job Announcements," Library Trends 41 (fall 1992): 187-97; Furuta, "The Impact of Automation on Professional Catalogers," 251.
47. Wells, "Requirements and Benefits for Academic Librarians," 453.
48. Reser and Schuneman, "The Academic Library Job Market," 51.
49. Robinson, "Academic Library Collection Development and Management Positions," 137.
50. Copeland, "The Demand for Serials Catalogers," 33; Mueller and Mering, "Serials Positions in U.S. Academic Libraries," 419.
51. Copeland, "The Demand for Serials Catalogers," 33; Mueller and Mering, "Serials Positions in U.S. Academic Libraries," 419.
52. Reser and Schuneman, "The Academic Library Job Market," 52. Reser and Schuneman reported that 70.6 percent of ads required or preferred computer skills.
53. Zhou, "Analysis of Trends in Demand for Computer-Related Skills," 262.
54. Xu, "The Impact of Automation on Job Requirements," 23.
55. Phyllis J. Hudson, "Recruitment for Academic Librarianship," in Librarians for the New Millennium, ed. William E. Moen and Kathleen M. Hein (Chicago: ALA, 1988), 72-82.
56. Budd, "Salaries of Automation Librarians," 25; Foote, "The Systems Librarian in U.S. Academic Libraries," 522.
57. Budd, "Salaries of Automation Librarians," 25; Foote, "The Systems Librarian in U.S. Academic Libraries," 522.
58. Felix Tse-Hsiu Chu, "Evaluating the Skills of the Systems Librarian," Journal of Library Administration 12, no. 1 (1990): 91-102; Detlefson, "Specialists as Professionals in Research Libraries," 195-196; Foote, "The Systems Librarian in U.S. Academic Libraries," 525.
59. Felix Tse-Hsiu Chu, "Evaluating the Skills of the Systems Librarian," Journal of Library Administration 12, no. 1 (1990): 91-102; Detlefson, "Specialists as Professionals in Research Libraries," 195-196; Foote, "The Systems Librarian in U.S. Academic Libraries," 525.
60. Felix Tse-Hsiu Chu, "Evaluating the Skills of the Systems Librarian," Journal of Library Administration 12, no. 1 (1990): 91-102; Detlefson, "Specialists as Professionals in Research Libraries," 195-196; Foote, "The Systems Librarian in U.S. Academic Libraries," 525.
61. Foote, "The Systems Librarian in U.S. Academic Libraries."
62. Susan Baerg Epstein, "Administrators of Automated Systems," Library Journal 116 (Mar. 15, 1991): 66-67.
63. Detlefson, "Specialists as Professionals in Research Libraries," 196; Susan K. Martin, "The Role of the Systems Librarian," Journal of Library Administration 9, no. 4 (1988): 57-68.
64. Detlefson, "Specialists as Professionals in Research Libraries," 196; Susan K. Martin, "The Role of the Systems Librarian," Journal of Library Administration 9, no. 4 (1988): 57-68.