In relation to the future need for librarians working in schools, one respondent
observed that there was an urgent need for specially trained children’s and teen service
librarians. The respondent pointed out that this is a “core user group” and that there
was currently a “lack of courses for children’s librarians, teen librarians, and school
librarians in regard to their specialized programmes, services and collections”.
Regarding the future need to focus more on the requirements of the local, Arabic
speaking population, which was borne out by the high score for Arabic language
cataloguers, one respondent stressed that there was a definite need for “Arabic
speaking reference librarians”.
Finally, when comparing future job roles with the sector breakdown of libraries that
respondents work for (see Figure 3), it can be seen that the job roles that have been
selected as most needed are distributed fairly evenly across different library sectors
with a relatively even pattern emerging that is in direct proportion to the number of
respondents working across each different library sector.