According to the American Library Association, the median age of a credentialed librarian was 39 for men and 41 for women in By , it had risen to 51 for men and 52 for women. She was previously a lead news writer for FiveThirtyEight. Andrew Flowers wrote about economics and sports for FiveThirtyEight.
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Communication skills. Librarians and library media specialists need to be able to explain ideas and information in ways that patrons understand.
Workers must be able and willing to continually update their knowledge of these changes to be effective at their jobs. Interpersonal skills. Librarians and library media specialists must be able to work both as part of a team and with the public or with researchers. Organizational skills. Librarians and library media specialists help patrons research topics efficiently. They should be able to direct the logical use of resources, databases, and other materials.
Problem-solving skills. These workers need to be able to identify a problem, figure out where to find information to solve the problem, and draw conclusions based on the information found. Reading skills. Librarians and library media specialists must be excellent readers. Those working in special libraries are expected to read the latest literature in their field of specialization.
Note: All Occupations includes all occupations in the U. Source: U. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. In May , the median annual wages for librarians and library media specialists in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:.
Public and academic librarians often work on weekends and evenings, and may work holidays. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections program. Communities are increasingly turning to libraries for a variety of services and activities. Therefore, there will be a need for librarians to manage libraries and help patrons find information. Parents value the learning opportunities that libraries present for children because libraries have information and learning materials that children often cannot access from home.
In addition, the availability of electronic information and media materials is expected to increase the demand for these workers in research and special libraries, where patrons may need help sorting through the large amount of digital information and collections materials.
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Information on this site allows projected employment growth for an occupation to be compared among states or to be compared within one state. CareerOneStop includes hundreds of occupational profiles with data available by state and metro area. There are links in the left-hand side menu to compare occupational employment by state and occupational wages by local area or metro area. There is also a salary info tool to search for wages by zip code. This table shows a list of occupations with job duties that are similar to those of librarians and library media specialists.
Adult basic and secondary education and ESL English as a Second Language teachers instruct adults in fundamental skills, such as reading and speaking English.
They also help students earn their high school equivalency credential. Museum technicians and conservators prepare and restore items in those collections.
High school teachers teach academic lessons and various skills that students will need to attend college and to enter the job market.
Instructional coordinators oversee school curriculums and teaching standards. They develop instructional material, implement it, and assess its effectiveness. Kindergarten and elementary school teachers instruct young students in basic subjects in order to prepare them for future schooling. Postsecondary teachers instruct students in a variety of academic subjects beyond the high school level. For more information about librarians and library media specialists, including accredited library education programs, visit.
American Library Association. For more information about becoming a school librarian or library media specialist, contact your state board of education.
Medical Library Association. American Association of Law Libraries. Special Libraries Association. Librarians and Media Collections Specialists. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.
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It may also discuss the major industries that employed the occupation. Containing all historical US census data from to the present and simple mapping and reporting tools, it meets the needs of experts and non-experts alike.
The U. Census first collected data on librarians in , four years after the founding of the American Library Association. They only counted librarians nationwide. Census, which became organized as a permanent Bureau in , can be used to track the growth of the library profession.
The number of librarians grew over the next hundred years, peaking at , in Then, the profession began to shrink, and as of , it had dropped by nearly a third to , The data enables us to measure the growth, the gender split in this profession known to be mostly female, and to explore other divides in income and education, as they changed over time.
We examined a number of socioeconomic trends over the duration, and focused in on the first year that detailed wage data were recorded, at the peak of the profession and the most currently available data. For the first years of data, the number of librarians increased, especially after World War II. In , the trend reversed. Over the past 20 years, the number of librarians has dropped by 31 percent, though the decline has slowed. Considering the nation today, the states with the largest librarian populations are: Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York, Texas and California.
Meanwhile, the states with the highest concentrations of librarians or librarians per capita are: Vermont, D. Table 1 in the appendix gives the count and proportion of librarians by state in The Census Bureau has kept records of librarian wages since Median 2 librarian wages whether full-time or part-time increased until , though they were a lower percentage of the median wages of all workers. This wage drop was in the context of the Oil Embargo in the mids, and the economic fall-out that that caused.
All these figures are adjusted for inflation. By the typical librarian earned over one-third more than a typical US worker. According to the Census results, librarians have enjoyed consistently high employment rates.
For instance in , the unemployment rate among librarians was just two percent; one-fifth the national rate. Today, 83 percent of librarians are women, but in the s men had the edge, making up 52 percent of the librarians enumerated. In , male librarians were truly rare, making up just 8 percent of the librarian population. Librarians working full-time earned more than the national median income in and , but incomes dipped below the national median in Female librarians consistently out-earned women elsewhere in the labor market.
However, when tracking education and wages, librarians with BA degrees or graduate degrees consistently earn less than their counterparts elsewhere in the labor market. The gender wage gap has essentially closed for librarians with college degrees, but among those without college degrees, the gap remains and is 50 percent larger than for those working in other professions. The librarian field has been and continues to be a predominately white profession.
In , the first non-white librarians were recorded in the census sample. Asian and Native American librarians were not until In , there were African-American librarians, representing 2 percent of the total librarian population.
In , that number rose to 27, or 9 percent of the total librarian population, much closer to the African-American population nationwide 11 percent.
As of , there were 15, African-American librarians, representing 7 percent of the population. In , 89 percent of librarians were white while the whole population was 82 percent white. In , one in three librarians were married. The wedding bell rate declined to less than one in ten in before turning around and rising for the next several decades.
Today, the marriage rate among librarians is the highest it has ever been with 62 percent of librarians married in In , when education data for librarians debuted, 45 percent of librarians had completed at least four years of college. That proportion has risen over the decades to 86 percent in , over three times the national rate of 28 percent.
Librarians skew older with 64 percent of them 45 years or older, and 40 percent of them over 55 years old. The librarian population has aged over the past couple of decades. In and , only 42 percent of librarians were 45 years or older, but by , 64 percent were at least 45 years old. In , 37 percent of librarians worked in the private or nonprofit sector while 62 percent worked in a public setting the remaining 1 percent were self-employed.
In , 48 percent of librarians worked in the private or nonprofit sector, with men and women represented in almost equal numbers. In , the number of librarians in the private or nonprofit sector decreased to 32 percent.
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