Libraries face staffing shortages as retirement beckons

Charles Davis writes \”More than 30,000 of the roughly 125,000 school, public, and college and university
librarians in the country about one-fourth of the total are expected to reach retirement
age by 2009, according to the American Library Association.


Already, librarians are in short supply, especially in urban and rural areas. President
Bush, weighing in on a problem of concern to his wife, a former librarian, has proposed
spending $10 million to help recruit them.


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