... be heavily skewed toward students, simply due to increased calls for austerity in library operations. There is, however, hope for library managers that service quality will not be decreased to a level originally assumed by individuals more pessimistic about student labor than the emerging research...

...Michael Germano Purpose While the great recession may have concluded more than a year ago, the lingering effects of state and local budget contraction and austerity are having a highly negative impact on libraries and librarians. The future for publicly funded libraries as institutions...