This study analyzed academic library position vacancies advertised in Library Journal during the period 1970-79 in the categories of position type, position level, and geographical location. The past decade was characterized by fluctuating levels of advertised job opportunities. Those opportunities presently are entering a period of marked decline , indicating diminished employment prospects for academic librarians in the future .
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Ronald Rayman (1981) studied this question.