Info Pros are on the move

Last month over 5,000 specialty librarians met in Seattle WA for their annual conference. This week the American Library Association is meeting in Anaheim CA, and week after next the American Association of Law Libraries will meet in Portland OR.

• There are more public libraries (a total of 16,549) in the US than McDonald's.
• Reference librarians in the nation's public and academic libraries answer more than 7.2 million questions weekly.
• 85% of companies ranked in the to 100 of the Fortune 500 companies employ an information professional.