Friday, July 19, 2013

Perhaps it should be pointed out that 82% of the 120,707 libraries in the U.S. are school libraries


Does The Library Of The Future Have Books?  (Forbes 7/18/2013)

Excerpt:  While most of the 100,000+ libraries in the U.S. will likely continue to function as they always have, moving books around shelves and holding areas, to and from patrons — at least for the foreseeable future — some libraries around the world are changing and this could be the start of a trend.

[Sidebar:  Jeremy, is that all there is........to libraries?   ".....moving books around shelves and holding areas, to and from patrons...."]

As for school libraries, the loss of librarians is accelerating.


As a point of comparison, there were 31,932 fulltime-equivalent ALA-accredited MLS librarians working in 8,951 public libraries in 2010.


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