Comments on: Thanks for Your Support!

By: Vegans For Meat

Vegans For Meat — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:55:51 +0000

Librarians fulfill a critical professional role that far out-measures the eartly class of professionals, including rehab counselors and pharmacists. They fulfill a critical bridge between this world and the Other World, really immanant in the workings of the the cosmos, nay, the [U]niverse. I don’t think paraprofessionls can live up to this profound level of responsibility.

By: Dr. Pepper

Dr. Pepper — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:19:20 +0000

Sterling Crispinus – your sense of what a librarian is/does is hyper-inflated :-)

By: Sterling Crispinus

Sterling Crispinus — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:52:33 +0000

“How about this: if you work in a library, you’re a librarian…” Sure, and if you work in a hospital, you’re a physician. If you work in the Air Force, you’re a jet pilot. If you work in state government, you’re an elected official. If you work at a bank, you’re a loan officer. If you work in a restaurant, you’re a French pastry chef. If you work at a college, you’re a tenured professor. . . . . yeah, I see it: people who work in libraries are librarian!

By: IAF

IAF — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:49:01 +0000

You know, if any support staff is posting on here, they need to stop.

They need to be available to fetch me a coffee when I need it!

By: cynic

cynic — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:58:12 +0000

It feels good to clear the air, don’t it :)~

By: HZE

HZE — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:23:17 +0000

"It's sad that liberrians feel the need to belittle others in order to make themselves feel good. "

That comment stinks and you stink too, Cynic.

aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

I feel much better now.

Thanks.

By: Cynic

Cynic — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:10:14 +0000

2.0 thinking? Most librarians I know aren’t even at the 0.9 marker ;-) I work for an academic library. Everyone younger than 50 tells me that their MLIS was a joke…OK well, their words are “a union card”. It’s sad that liberrians feel the need to belittle others in order to make themselves feel good. I’ll keep my hard sciences education thank you very much AND call myself a librarian ;-)

By: Mr. Kat

Mr. Kat — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:35:00 +0000

Very progressive – unfortunately for you, the grandfathers will never let that happen in THEIR academic library! and if it DOES happen, they can sit in their chairs for another 20 or 30 years until each one of them is 60 or 75 before they retire. By that time our society will be so far ahead of even the progressives there simply won’t be librarians at all anymore!!! [or, so broke because everything crashes here so there is no longer money left for frivolous things like "librarins."]

By: not a professional

not a professional — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:48:37 +0000

How about this: if you work in a library, you’re a librarian. You might be a reference librarian, a cataloging librarian, a circulation librarian, whatever: if you work in a librarian, that is your title. Slap on a modifier to indicate what specific function you fulfill and there you go. Oh, and the MLS isn’t a golden ticket to a bigger salary. Hard work and achievement–even without a degree–can get you there as well, though the degree might get you there faster. Now THAT is some 2.0 thinking right there.

By: Stephen Denney

Stephen Denney — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:00:46 +0000

I am one of those “paraprofessionals”, library support staff or whatever. My job title is library assistant and I catalog books (some librarians do that too, by the way). People in my unit come from many backgrounds, educational and otherwise. In any case, having come to the library world relatively late in life, the distinctions some draw between librarian and paraprofessional or library assistant would only matter to me if I wanted higher pay or more status. I don’t see any qualitative difference between the two categories.