Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Heather Dugan who is a contributing writer to Salary.com.

Find out if your current job — or the one you are preparing for — is on the “Endangered Occupations List.”

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Once upon a time good employees updated their job skills and advanced to the next career level with the regularity of Mario questing for Princess Peach.

But then technology proliferated, and the well-read encyclopedia salesman, savvy VCR repairman and worldly travel agent either faded away or morphed into updated versions of their former selves.

Are you prepared for an evolving work environment or, worse, job extinction? Don’t be the Cro Magnon who creates trendy CD artwork in an MP3 world.

Check out these jobs on the brink and remember, clever and creative are transferable skills — if you’re adaptable and ready for the next big thing.

[Here are the first two of the endangered 12.}

12.  Librarian: Shelved or renewed?

Glamour girl Google and her friends Bing, Yahoo and Cha Cha dethroned the trusty silencer of the stacks, our public librarian.

Now, the local library is online, shoes and shirts are no longer required and we can use our “outdoor voice” indoors if we are so inspired. Will the decibel diva’s future be shelved?

Verdict: Evolved. Although virtual media and the Internet search deleted the Dewey decimal system, people still enjoy reading books the old-fashioned way and appreciate research help. The new librarian is a digital archivist, savvy with searches, keywords and helpful websites.

11.  Professional typist: Alt, ctrl, deleted?

Words per minute used to mean something when errors required a tedious application of white-out. But word processing on virtual paper has removed the wow factor of typing perfection.

Professional typists lost out to the backspace key. And also to spell check, which can rack up artificial IQ points as easily as a good video game cheat code.

Verdict: Evolving. Since even “hunt and peck” keyboarders can tap out an email, top typists need additional software proficiencies to keep a spot at the keyboard.

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Heather Dugan is a freelance writer/photographer and voice-over/on-camera talent with an international business clientele who specializes in spotlighting the inspiring and often humorous elements of business, family and travel. Her articles and photos can be found on various corporate and travel sites and via links on her Heather Dugan Creative website. She can be seen and heard in radio/TV commercials, e-Learning, corporate training and PR videos and as an annoying phone voice telling you when you’ve misdialed. You may also wish to check out her new book, Pickup in Aisle Twelve.