It's not hard to find researchers in a general sense -- we're only downstaffed so badly because we lost a lot of them at once. International researchers are really hard to find, because of the job's specific requirements.

We do often hire people with library backgrounds -- our person we just let go had an MLS, which is why she was hired. (She didn't make it past her probation, but that was because she wasn't picking up certain basic office skills like Excel fast enough -- nothing to do with her research chops.)