I find this a very troubling remark especially since that most often translates as pay your faculty librarians as cheaply as possible based on their in turn "lack of experience"

that's a double edged sword, I'm not sure most would agree with in the field today when experience is especially needed to meet a growing amount of challenges beyond answering a reference question and picking up the phone.  It ends up more work for the managers/supervisors, maybe more than the administration level.  

 I would not recommend that approach or mindset to people going out looking for jobs today either, if that is how some are thinking about the question, then there is a growing gap or soon to be "canyon".  Budgets are cut these days, if there are more experienced faculty hired, they will also require higher compensation too...

--Karen Weaver, MLS, Adjunct Faculty iSchool at Drexel University, Philadelphia PA email: [log in to unmask] / Electronic Resources Statistician, Duquesne University, Gumberg Library, Pittsburgh PA email: [log in to unmask]