Job Satisfaction Among Library Staff

Job Satisfaction Among Library Support Staff in Alabama Academic Libraries

“…More than 6,000 articles on job satisfaction had been written by 1984, prompting the question: why embark on another study? 1 As Patricia Cain Smith, Lorne M. Kendall, and Charles L. Hulin point out, little evidence exists successfully linking job satisfaction and productivity, so that frequently discussed topic is hard to support as a valid reason for additional research.2 However, Beverly P. Lynch and JoAnn Verdin, in their study of job satisfaction in libraries, indicated a need for more studies that would be ''conducted within the framework of the work itself. '' 3 Few studies have been conducted in libraries, and many unexplored facets of job satisfaction in this context remain.…”