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Public Library Workforce Planning in Australia: Who Are They, Where Are They, and How Do We Get Them?

Robert P. Knight

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Public library managers need to focus on workforce planning. The challenges facing them include an increasingly transient workforce; generations X and Y employees with different workplace expectations from their older colleagues; a competitive information sector employment market; an ageing workforce; and relatively few undergraduate librarianship students. Edited version of a paper given at the Public Libraries NSW country conference 2007 18-20 July 2007.

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Public library managers need to focus on workforce planning. The challenges facing them include an increasingly transient workforce; generations X and Y employees with different workplace expectations from their older colleagues; a competitive information sector employment market; an ageing workforce; and relatively few undergraduate librarianship students. Edited version of a paper given at the Public Libraries NSW country conference 2007 18-20 July 2007.

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Public library managers need to focus on workforce planning. The challenges facing them include an increasingly transient workforce; generations X and Y employees with different workplace expectations from their older colleagues; a competitive information sector employment market; an ageing workforce; and relatively few undergraduate librarianship students. Edited version of a paper given at the Public Libraries NSW country conference 2007 18-20 July 2007.

Key concepts: Workforce, Project commissioning, Workforce planning, Publishing, Public relations, Public sector, Business, Management

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