Home | Browse | Search | Credits | About
Register | User Area | DL-Harvest | Help
DLIST

A Tale of two markets: Employer expectations of information professionals in Australia and the United States of America

Marion, Linda and Kennan, Mary Anne and Willard, Patricia and Wilson, Concepción S. (2005) A Tale of two markets: Employer expectations of information professionals in Australia and the United States of America. In Proceedings International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions General Conference, Oslo, Norway.

Full text available as:
PDF - Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or other PDF viewer.

Abstract

This paper reports the findings of an exploratory study of 395 library job advertisements in Australia and the USA from August to October 2004. To investigate similarities and differences between the two countries’ data we conducted a content analysis and co-word analysis of professional job ads from academic, public and special libraries. Interpersonal Skills, Behavioural Characteristics, and responsiveness to a changeable Environment were identified as critical requirements in both countries.

EPrint Type:Conference Paper
Keywords:LIS Employment, LIS jobs,
Subjects:Libraries
ID Code:1144
Deposited On:03 June 2006
Alternative Locations:http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/papers/056e-Marion.pdf
Eprint Statistics:View statistics for this eprint
Tell A Colleague:Tell a colleague about it.

Borgman, C. L., Ed. (1990). Scholarly Communication and Bibliometrics. Newbury Park, CA, Sage.

Brittain, J. M. (1996). “Information professionals in Australia: Expanding horizons.” CIS Research Reports. Wagga Wagga, Charles Sturt University.

Clyde, L. A. (2002). "An instructional role for librarians: An overview and content analysis of job advertisements." Australian Academic and Research Libraries 33(3): 150-166.

Coxon, A. and Davies, P. (1982). The Users Guide to Multidimensional Scaling. Exeter, NH, Heinemann Educational Books.

Croneis, K. S. and Henderson, P. (2002). “Electronic and digital librarian positions: A content analysis of announcements from 1990 through 2000.” Journal of Academic Librarianship. 28: 232.

Cronin, B. & Atkins, H.B. (Eds.). (2000). The Web of Knowledge: A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Garfield. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc.

Cronin, B., Stiffler, M. & Day, D. (1993). "The Emergent market for information professionals: Educational opportunities and implications." Library Trends 42(2): 257-276.

Cullen, J. (2000). “A review of library and information service job advertisements: what do they tell us about work?” Journal of Information Science. 26: 278.

Fisher, W. (2001). "Core competencies for the acquisitions librarians." Library Collections, Acquisitions & Technical Services” 25: 179-190.

Gorman, G. E. and Corbitt, B.J. (2002). "Core competencies in information management education." New Library World 103(1182/1183): 436-445.

Heimer, G. L. (2002). "Defining electronic librarianship: A content analysis of job advertisements." Public Services Quarterly 1(1): 27-43.

Lynch, B. P. and Smith, K. R. (2001). "The changing nature of work in academic libraries." College & Research libraries 62(5): 407-420.

Marion, L. (2001). “Digital librarian, Cybrarian, or Librarian with Specialized Skills: Who Will Staff Digital Libraries?” ACRL Tenth National Conference, Denver Colorado.

Marion, L. and McCain, K. (2001). "Contrasting views of software engineering journals: Author cocitation choices and indexer vocabulary assignments." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 52(4): 297-308.

McCain, K. W. (1995a). "The structure of biotechnology R&D." Scientometrics 32(2): 153-175.

McCain, K. W. (1995b). “R&D Themes in information science: A preliminary codescriptor analysis.” Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Rosary College, Pine Forest, IL, Learned Information.

Middleton, M. (2003). "Skills expectations of library graduates." New Library World 104(1184/1185): 42-56.

Moore, N. (1987). “The Emerging market for librarians and information workers.” Library and Information Research Report. Boston Spa, British Library.

Provalis (2004). Simstat, Wordstat, Provalis Research. Montreal, http://www.simstat.com/

Tennant, R. (1998). "The most important management decision: Hiring staff for the new millennium." Library Journal 123(3): 102.

Tennant, R. (1999). "Skills for the new millennium." Library Journal 124(1): 39.

White, G. W. (1999). “Academic subject specialist positions in the United States: A content analysis of announcements.” Journal of Academic Librarianship, 25: 372.

White, H.D. & McCain, K.W. (1998). “Visualizing a discipline: An author cocitation analysis of information science, 1972-1995.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science 49(4), 327-355.

Wilson, C. (1999). “Informetrics.” Annual review of Information Science and Technology. M. Williams ed. Medford, N.J., Information Today Ltd.: 107-247.

Xu, H. (1996). "The impact of automation on job requirements and qualifications for catalogers and reference librarians in academic libraries." Library Resources & Technical Services 40: 9-31.

EPrints dLIST, an open access archive for the Information Sciences, is supported by the School of Information Resources and Library Science and Learning Technologies Center, University of Arizona. Established in 2002, dLIST has a global Advisory Board and is a part of the Information Technology & Society Research Lab. Open Archives
Contact: Admin | Donate