Claudia,

Very interesting & highly relevant -- this will be a part of the backdrop and framing for the report on QC MLS employment trends.

Thank you,

Dean
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From: Claudia Perry [c2perry@nyc.rr.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 5:06 PM
To: Elizabeth Basileo; Roberta Brody; Lucia Cedeira Serantes; colleen cool; Linda Cooper; Harry M Kibirige; James W Marcum; Kwongbor Ng (GSLIS QC); Johnathan Thayer; Shuheng Wu; Simone Yearwood; Bridget Kavanagh; Amanda O Mckee; Becca Worthington; Maeghan Dolan; Christel Haesicke
Cc: Claudia Perry; Dean Savage; gslisadjuncts@lists.qc.cuny.edu
Subject: Career Projection Trends for Librarians and Archivists

Dear colleagues,

In revising the readings for the Fundamentals course (701), I ran across the following source from Career One Stop, a site sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Labor.

http://www.careerinfonet.org/occ_rep.asp?next=occ_rep&Level=&optstatus=111111111&jobfam=25&id=1&nodeid=2&soccode=254021&menuMode=&stfips=36&x=44&y=12

While a slightly disappointing projection of -5% growth for librarians between 2012 and 2022 for NYS, it’s somewhat more positive for NJ, CT, PA and Washington, DC.  One also can check for wage information by metropolitan areas:  median yearly 2013 income for the NY metropolitan area is $63,100, as compared to $60,900 for NYS.  So, some of this information on lack of job growth may reflect conditions upstate.

A similar search for Archivists in NYS indicates a projected 17% rise in employment, but a lower median salary  ($53,900).

I just thought this would be quite interesting to those on the Committee tracking LIS employment trends, and to all of us in general terms.

Claudia


Claudia A. Perry, MLS, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Graduate Advisor for Admissions
Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
Queens College, CUNY
Flushing, NY  11367
claudia.perry@qc.cuny.edu
718-997-3790