Why investigate mobility? Particularly, why investigate it now ? Results from my study on mobility, career patterns, and factors affecting, suggest that what the profession seems to be suffering from at the moment is immobility. Graphic descriptions were given of closures, cut‐backs and frozen...

Possibly the best entry point or initial approach to manpower planning is via term‐definition. Perhaps we should also keep this term‐defining concept in mind whenever we think, talk, or write about the subject, because the very label manpower planning in itself is ambiguous and capable of...

‘What aspects of your job present the most difficulty?’ Answers to this question, involving graphic and sometimes disturbing descriptions of the problems and constraints of working life, were provided by samples of chemists, engineers and insurance personnel during 1981. The information was...

Certain assumptions are implicit in producing a paper under the above title. Doing so would seem to indicate that alternative careers for library‐information workers are necessary, possible, desired and desirable. The topic is also self‐inflating or self‐reinforcing. It suggests the...