Recruiting, Training And Retention Of Science And Technology Librarians

摘要

Important professional issues insist on coming out into the open. Several of these emerge here: do enough people go into library and information work, and of them do enough go into science and technology work? Are most library (school) students and recruits arts and humanities-based rather than science and technology-based, and so not interested in (and equipped for) work as a science librarian? Now that the cadre of practitioners in this/these field(s) is approaching retirement (in this book authors refer to the US baby-boomers), is a replacement deficit emerging that might not be filled? And what kind of training/education can and should be offered to people coming on-stream and how should current and future practice be managed?