Friday, June 15, 2012

Do We Still Need Librarians?

As a teacher and book lover, I’m quite interested in what’s going on with libraries today. So I found this infographic fascinating. Among the more notable statistics.


There are 122,101 libraries in the US and only 12,804 McDonalds.


Each Day, U.S. libraries circulate nearly 4 times more items than Amazon handles. U.S. public library cardholders outnumber Amazon.com customers by 5 to 1.


Employment of librarians is expected to grow by 8 percent between 2008 and 2018.


Maybe libraries aren’t going to disappear as fast as some people have suggested.



HT

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