PROF: Titles/Salaries/Future

["Richard R. Shook"]

WORKING WOMAN (magazine)
February 1999 issue:
"20 Hot Career Moves" article

page 48:  "Knowledge Manager"
"Imagine the old-time corporate librarian.  Now trade in her gray
flannel skirt and sensible cardigan for a DKNY outfit and tripel-
pierced ears.  That's the difference between an information
specialist and its latest variant, the knowledge manager.  The
makeover comes courtesy of high-tech methods of communicating."
(there's more)
Pay:  Entry level, $50,000; manager, $90,000+
Requirements: ...An M.A. in library science... (there's more)

page 50:  "Not-So-Hot Careers"
"Where there's growth; there's slow-th."  (wonderful word!!)
6 Librarian:  Smaller city, school, and college budgets will
slow hiring.

interesting article

Richard Shook, Librarian
John Glenn High School Library
Bay City, Michigan
rshook@edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu
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