Category: Employment

Subject Experts Need Not Apply?

Although not a discussion of subject expertise for academic law librarians, Todd Gilman’s article in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education, Recent job postings and hires suggest that many academic libraries are losing interest in hiring humanities Ph.D.’s, still raises many relevant questions.

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The Vanishing Librarians?

A provocative editorial from the February 15th Library Journal, wherein John N. Berry III, Editor-at-Large, jberry@reedbusiness.com opines: “once professional responsibilities of librarians are being dumbed down into the duties of retail clerks or the robotic responses of machines.” Feel free to comment here or on the article site.

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