Bedarf an Informationsspezialisten in wissensintensiven Branchen der österreichischen Volkswirtschaft

In this contribution we present partial results of a project, the goal of which was an extensive analysis of the information sector in Austria. The project approaches the information sector from an information science perspective. 1 Das Projekt wurde vom Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank gefördert. 310 Robert Mayo Hayes, Karin Karlics, Christian Schlögl University libraries providing information services and information products to researchers and students are the starting point. Based on the number of librarians in university libraries, who provide these services, we try to project the need for information specialists serving knowledge workers in knowledge industries. After the adaptation of the model designed for this purpose, we could attain a relatively good accordance between the projected and the effective number of information specialists.