I selected the two tables above from an article in the Law Library Journal that I found by searching through the American Association of Law Libraries' website. The article reports the findings of a study to determine the location of jobs for law librarians, types of employers, kinds of jobs, and numbers of jobs for law librarians as compared to population and numbers of attorneys per state. This statistical analysis seemed pertinent to my topic of law librarianship in the 21st century.
The first table is particularly helpful in showing the range of employment opportunities for law librarians and the percentages in each type of work. The highest percentages for job openings over the five year statistical period are in academic law librarianship and in law firms. However, the percentage for academic law librarian openings is more than double that for openings in law firms! Local, state, and federal law librarian positions accounted for just over 10% of openings. The second table shows the comparison of job listings and population of the state and number of attorneys. Washington, D.C. (counted as a state) has the highest number of job listings under this comparison, and ranks number 3 for job listings overall. It is interesting that though very low in population compared to the populations of individual states, D.C. still ranks very high for job openings. Its high number of attorney is a more natural correlation with the high number of job listings. The author speculates that Louisiana's high number of openings as compared to its relatively low population and attorney numbers may be due to openings created following Hurricane Katrina.
This was an interesting statistical anaylsis that is pertinent to my topic of law librarianship. The full copyright information for the images and the information posted in this blog can be found below:
Gleason, D. (2008, Summer). Where will you work? A five-year statistical analysis of AALL job placement listings. Law Library Journal, 100(3), 529-39. Retrieved March 20, 2009, from American Association of Law Libraries Website: http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_llj_v100n03.asp
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