The ALA recently released a survey of rural librarians with all kinds of interesting, enlightening and downright depressing comments and statistics.
With fully one half of your friendly neighbourhood LA contributor team working in rural library settings, this survey also hits close to home (although I do believe that the situation in Canada for salaries and working conditions is much better than in the US for the most part.)
(via the always jam-packed ALA weekly e-newsletter which, unfortunately isn’t online)
- JH