The Workforce – Research and Reality

Abstract

Details a Library Association one‐day workshop aimed to raise among librarians and to encourage senior managers of and information services to devise appropriate strategies coping with the process of demographic change on the Library Service (LIS) workforce. Covers issues for the LIS including gender, graduates and returners to work and on solutions proposed. Concludes that it will become that library schools reduce their drop‐out rates after if employers are to fill the posts which become available.

Citation

Vogel, S. (1990), "The Workforce – Research and Reality", New Library World, Vol. 91 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000002384