I can't even say it will be worth it in the future.
I'm trying to find the study... but if you're looking at working in a traditional or academic library, there are currently (I believe) upwards of a hundred newly minted graduates per available positions in a given year. Add in graduates from years past who still have the gumption to actively seek library jobs and it becomes something more ridiculous, like 500. And the sad part is, these numbers did not actually change between non-recession years and recession ones.
I would love to be able to say "go for it!" I would love to be able to say that things were fine and dandy in libraries. But in the end, it just seems like state and local governments are cutting back on funding for libraries in the recession, and libraries do not come back easily from that.
(But it could be I am just bitter that there are no library jobs right now.)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2011-02-02 12:49 am (UTC)I can't even say it will be worth it in the future.
I'm trying to find the study... but if you're looking at working in a traditional or academic library, there are currently (I believe) upwards of a hundred newly minted graduates per available positions in a given year. Add in graduates from years past who still have the gumption to actively seek library jobs and it becomes something more ridiculous, like 500. And the sad part is, these numbers did not actually change between non-recession years and recession ones.
I would love to be able to say "go for it!" I would love to be able to say that things were fine and dandy in libraries. But in the end, it just seems like state and local governments are cutting back on funding for libraries in the recession, and libraries do not come back easily from that.
(But it could be I am just bitter that there are no library jobs right now.)