What Today's Academic Librarians Can Tell Us About Recruiting and Retaining the Library Workforce of Tomorrow: Lessons Learned from the WILIS 1 Study

摘要

With the retirement of the baby boomers, academic libraries, like all other libraries, will face workforcernshortages in the upcoming decades. Recruitment and retention efforts will need to be expanded. In the past, academic libraries were able to be relatively passive in terms of attracting applicants. Openings were advertised, and there were usually sufficient qualified applicants to make a satisfactory hire. However, in a time of high demand and low supply this approach will not be sufficient. Academic librarians need to begin to think about instituting more active recruitment efforts that will convey the benefits of an academic library career to qualified individuals.