More than 9,000 full-time school librarian positions were eliminated from 2009-2016, a 15% reduction, with teachers and their assistants having to add librarians' former duties to their workloads. And in the relatively few places where positions are being added (e.g., Los Angeles), the nature of the work is changing quite a lot. " CityLab
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM on September 5, 2019