Job prospects and the skills tomorrow’s librarians will need were hot topics at the 14th biannual conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, which ended on Sunday.

But as the most senior librarian, Dunlap immediately realized that if he was being laid off, all of the librarians must be losing their jobs, according to their union contract.

While the American Association of School Librarians says some states like California, Michigan and Arizona have been hit especially hard, a map of cutbacks on the organization's website shows jobs ...

The projected growth rate of jobs for librarians and library media specialists is 5%, which is faster than average when compared to all occupations. Jobseekers in this field can find employment ...

However, about 95 percent of the district's librarians and counselors have a secondary certification in some content area that would allow them to go back to the classroom, she said.