To predict possible retirements by age is made more difficult because
mandatory retirement ages have ceased to exist.
Also, even those of us in good pension plans like TIAA-CREF are only now
seeing our accounts beginning to rebound from the post 9/11 stagnation.
Many librarians have less stellar retirement options.
********************************************************************
CAROL BREDEMEYER
ASST. DIR. FOR FACULTY SERVICES
SALMON P. CHASE COLLEGE OF LAW LIBRARY
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
NUNN DRIVE
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, KY 41099-6110
PHONE (859)572-5395
FAX (859)572-6529
EMAIL: bredemeyer@nku.edu
"Every man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of
the profession to which he belongs".
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the
president, or that we are to stand by the president
right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is
morally treasonable to the American public."
-Theodore Roosevelt
*********************************************************************
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On
Behalf Of Gerald Clark
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 11:57 AM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: librarian shortage?
One thing that makes predictions about future lack of librarians or
surplus of librarians so difficult are the messages of doom the
government and the economy give us: our investments tank daily (can't
retire yet!); our employers tank (can't retire yet--gotta find a new
job!), the gov'mint is doing its damnedest to destroy Social Security
(there goes that bit of retirement!); prescriptions and health care
costs surge upward, etc., etc.
No wonder that the statements that "...x librarians will attain age 65
in the next y years" are nearly meaningless. Many have to hang on as
long as possible.
GERALD H. CLARK
Reference Librarian
San Francisco Law Library
401 Van Ness Ave., Room 400
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-554-6837
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Nov 14 2007 - 20:45:58 PST