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The Effects of Entering the LIS Workforce in a Recession: North Carolina, 1964-2005

Morgan, Chad H.; Morgan, Jennifer Craft

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Title
The Effects of Entering the LIS Workforce in a Recession: North Carolina, 1964-2005
Author(s)
  • Morgan, Chad H.
  • Morgan, Jennifer Craft
Issue Date
2009
Keyword(s)
  • Librarians -- Recruiting -- North Carolina
  • Librarians -- Supply and demand -- North Carolina
  • Library and information science
  • Labor studies
Abstract
"This article examines the short- and long-term effects of entering the LIS workforce during a recession. It looks specifically at cohorts graduating from six North Carolina LIS programs during the recessions of 1973–75, 1980–82, 1990–91, and 2001 and compares aspects of their starting job, current job, pay, and indicators of job quality with those of nonrecession graduates of the same programs over the period from 1964 to 2005. Additional analyses are performed using job search and work setting match variables for a more in-depth look at recent graduates in the last recession (2001). We find that, examining the measures available, the labor market for North Carolina library and information science graduates appears to be relatively ""recession-proof."""
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/15371
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Copyright 2009 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 58 (2) Fall 2009: Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science PRIMARY
Library Trends 58 (2) Fall 2009: Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science. Edited by Joanne Gard Marshall, Paul Solomon and Susan Rathbun-Grubb.