Report Measures Librarians’ Time Reading Job-Related Materials

Hmmm, I’m like under 30 in how I read LIS stuff most of the time, but I’m over 60 on planes, trains and buses.

March 5, 2010

Report Measures Librarians’ Time Reading Job-Related Materials
by Jill Laster

“Librarians spend an average 22 minutes a day reading print publications relating to their job and an average 10 minutes a day reading library-themed blogs, a survey has found.

Primary Research Group surveyed 555 full-time academic librarians in the United States and Canada for the report, released this week.

Librarians who were at least 60 years old spent the most time reading print publications, at 31 minutes a day. Academic librarians 30 or under spent the most time reading library-related blogs, at 19 minutes a day.”

Read more at the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Stephen