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16 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 295 — 2018 Monthly Labor Review 130, no. 11 (November 2007): 33–52, https:// www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2007/11/art3full.pdf. 9 Mitra Toossi, “Labor Force Projections to 2020: A More Slowly Growing Workforce,” Monthly Labor Review 135, no. 1 (January 2012): 43–64, https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2012/01/art3full.pdf. 10 Mo Wang and Junqi Shi, “Psychological Research on Retirement,” Annual Review of Psychology 65 (January 2014): 209–33, https://ssrn. com/abstract=2632296. 11 See Figure 1. 12 Association for Library and Information Science Education, ALISE Statistical Reports, 2015. © 2017 Stanley Wilder This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This article was previously published on the ARL website at https:// www.arl.org/focus-areas/statistics-assessment/statistical-trends. To cite this article: Stanley Wilder. “Delayed Retirements and the Youth Movement among ARL Library Professionals.” Research Library Issues, no. 295 (2018): 6–16. https://doi.org/10.29242/rli.295.2.

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16 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 295 — 2018 Monthly Labor Review 130, no. 11 (November 2007): 33–52, https:// www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2007/11/art3full.pdf. 9 Mitra Toossi, “Labor Force Projections to 2020: A More Slowly Growing Workforce,” Monthly Labor Review 135, no. 1 (January 2012): 43–64, https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2012/01/art3full.pdf. 10 Mo Wang and Junqi Shi, “Psychological Research on Retirement,” Annual Review of Psychology 65 (January 2014): 209–33, https://ssrn. com/abstract=2632296. 11 See Figure 1. 12 Association for Library and Information Science Education, ALISE Statistical Reports, 2015. © 2017 Stanley Wilder This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This article was previously published on the ARL website at https:// www.arl.org/focus-areas/statistics-assessment/statistical-trends. To cite this article: Stanley Wilder. “Delayed Retirements and the Youth Movement among ARL Library Professionals.” Research Library Issues, no. 295 (2018): 6–16. https://doi.org/10.29242/rli.295.2.

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17 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 295 — 2018 Hiring and Staffing Trends in ARL Libraries Stanley Wilder, Dean of Libraries, Louisiana State University We are who we hire. As it turns out, we are also how many we hire, for what jobs, with what skills, credentials, and experience. Hiring decisions are palpable expressions of our evolving values, and in 2015 ARL’s demographic data series reflected a profession in a state of flux unlike any since the data series began in 1986.1 In some cases, change is consistent with longstanding trends, but some changes in the ARL data are recent, surprising, even counterintuitive. Taken as a whole, these changes in hiring amount to an epochal shift in the nature of library work, in what it means to be a library professional, and in the value that research libraries propose to contribute to society. The most dramatic change relates to the rate at which ARL libraries are hiring professionals, which at first glance appears not to be undergoing epochal change at all, but rather to be simply low, in its usual way. To compare hiring rates across years, we look to the number of new hires as a percentage of the overall population. Figure 1 illustrates this approach, and suggests that in 2015, hiring was slightly lower than in past years, but not exceptionally so. The problem with this analysis is that it assumes reasonable stability in the age profile of the population as a whole. The delayed retirements described in installment 1 of this series2 are one indication that ARL’s population is anything but stable as regards to age.

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15 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 295 — 2018 Endnotes 1 The primary data source for this study is the demographic portion of the 2015 ARL Salary Survey, an unpublished data series collected by ARL. The Salary Survey includes data for all professionals working in university ARL member libraries in the US and Canada. The data tables used for the analysis presented in this article are available for download at http://www.arl.org/storage/2017-03-09-rli-wilder-data. xls. 2 Stanley Wilder, The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians: A Profession Apart (Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 1995). 3 Stanley Wilder, Demographic Change in Academic Librarianship (Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2003). 4 US Bureau of Labor Statistics, “BLS Spotlight on Statistics: The Recession of 2007–2009,” February 2012, https://www.bls.gov/ spotlight/2012/recession/pdf/recession_bls_spotlight.pdf 5 Brooke Helppie McFall, “Crash and Wait? The Impact of the Great Recession on the Retirement Plans of Older Americans,” American Economic Review 101, no. 3 (May 2011): 40–44. 6 Gordon Russell, “Special Report: How Startling, Unique Cuts Have Transformed Louisiana’s Universities,” New Orleans Advocate, February 12, 2016, http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/ education/article_6f841848-a09a-5ee7-818f-0d1a43627f55.html 7 Paola Scommegna, “US Baby Boomers Likely to Delay Retirement,” Population Reference Bureau, September 2014, http://www.prb.org/ Publications/Articles/2014/us-babyboomers-retirement.aspx. 8 Mitra Toossi, “Labor Force Projections to 2014: Retiring Boomers,” Monthly Labor Review 128, no. 11 (November 2005): 25–44, https:// www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/11/art3full.pdf Mitra Toossi, “Labor Force Projections to 2016: More Workers in Their Golden Years,”

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