In 2003, during the Biennial migration of academic librarians to the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) conference, several of the programs in Charlotte, NC, discussed the recruitment and retention of the next generation but with an obvious lack of input from newly recruited librarians. In response, with Liza Posas, a library fellow at University of California-Santa Barbara, the author of this article posted a web-based survey to gauge how new academic librarians felt about their profession and what they would need to learn in order to become library leaders. This article summarizes the results from that survey.