Librarianship a good career to pursue...

A U.S. News & World Report article says that our very own career of librarianship has a good outlook for 2006.

Librarian. This is an underrated career. Most librarians enjoy helping patrons dig up information. They learn in the process and keep up to date on the latest books and online resources. The need for librarians, unfortunately, may decline because search engines make it easy for patrons to find information without a librarian's help. The job growth for librarians will be in nontraditional settings: corporations, nonprofit organizations, and consulting firms.

Search engines make it easy for patrons to find information without a librarian's help. That's true.  What they're missing though is the thousands of thousands of patrons who want help learning how to use a search engine, use it well, and find reliable resources in their interest areas (many of which are part of the invisible web and not findable with search engines).  Oh well.  We just have to wait I suppose for the rest of the world to realize what it is we actually do for a living.