Staff for Metropolitan Library Service.

I O N A L professional education, experience, and skills of librarians are being tested daily in the metropolitan libraries of the United States.Indeed, the conventional education, experience, and skills of all metropolitan library staff members-librarians, other professionals, technical assistants, information assistants, clerks, and pages-are being sorely tested in today's urban complexities.This paper will contrast the kinds of staff members found in metropolitan libraries during the past twenty years with the staff needed for the mid-1970s.Five types of metropolitan libraries will be discussed: (1) public libraries, (2) university libraries, (3) other large research libraries, (4) college libraries, and (5) special libraries.(Although extremely important in the metropolitan library scene, elementary and secondary school libraries will be excluded.)