A recent post to the NewGrads’ elist highlights a career overview of librarians, on Australian Jobsearch. Interesting to note is that average salary is around $1,000/week (which seems high based on most of the librarians I know). While job prospects are average, unemployment remains low. It’s a female dominated industry at 78% of the workforce; 67% of employees are fulltime. NSW has the biggest share of librarians, followed by, in order: VIC, QLD, WA, SA, ACT, TAS, NT. Information in the Jobsearch overview is based on data from ABS.
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August 3, 2006 at 11:04
What amazes me is the age breakdown. I knew that at 38 I was relatively young in my library, but I didn’t think the lack of young librarians was so severe.
I wonder who will be looking after libraries in the future, because it looks like there won’t be enough librarians to go around:
http://jobsearch.gov.au/joboutlook/default.aspx?pageId=KeyInfo3&AscoCode=2292#age
August 3, 2006 at 21:49
There are so many librarians I know who are working as a clerk because of the lack of jobs, I wonder if anyone look into this issue.
August 8, 2006 at 15:43
At 25, I certainly feel my age, working as a librarian. The only staff members in my library that are younger than me are the after-hours casuals.