Comments on: Library Job Bonanza!

By: Annie Linney

Annie Linney — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 05:02:58 +0000

Ha! Have you seen this?

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/inside-scoop/denise-davis-leave-ala-sacramento

Davies was hired by Sacramento PL for LONG-RANGE PLANNING!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

(After causing such a catastrophe by falsely predicting the librarian shortage, would you want her planning anything for your library? Nuff said.)

By: carol

carol — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:44:48 +0000

—Whoops, I meant the coming job ‘surplus’ in that last message [it is late and I'm tired]

By: carol

carol — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:43:58 +0000

I’m tickled pink AL made a whole blog post about this [and as one of the commentators in the previous post, although I'm not sure I was the first to mention it so I won't take that glory] I can’t believe this is out on job sites, lol. I do feel for the library staff who may get these calls, but it’s a great commentary on the supposed job ‘shortage’

By: KidLib

KidLib — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:44:51 +0000

Spekkio, I’m with you on the bitterness, but not so much on hitting people at the Sacramento library with a ton of calls over this. They may well have actual library work to do.

I’d definitely appreciate an apology from the ALA for the librarian shortage hoax as well, but it’s not gonna happen.

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:06:22 +0000

I just called that number for sh*ts and giggles and the Sacramento Public Library personnel member on the phone says it was a hoax and that the Library is not hiring at all….hehehehe

By: needs a 'nym

needs a 'nym — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:16:07 +0000

I don’t really count this as a hoax or prank, since it’s so transparent (or at least should be transparent, with our vaunted information literacy skills). I look at it more as a bit of viral satire condemning the ALA’s lies and Ms. Davies’ role in perpetuating them. It’s not too bad for what it is, I think.

By: Bibliotecher

Bibliotecher — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:10:12 +0000

This is the BEST hoax/prank that librarians can come up with???

Sheesh… ::lowers head in shame::

Who actually cares if some “official” spokesperson from ALA clears this up, if you’re even gullible enough to believe this message in the first place, I have an MLIS-in-progress I’d like to sell you.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:15:51 +0000

Take it from someone who is going back to get a real masters degree (MBA). An MLIS is a waste of time, effort and money. As has been painfully pointed out in this blog many times, the jobs aren’t there nor will they ever be.

The AL is doing library students a public service.

By: Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:56:35 +0000

Weird story.

Good post, AL.

Sad statistics, everyone. But as long as we are not like that unemployed guy in the UK we should all be OK.

By: Spekkio

Spekkio — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:59:44 +0000

Yeah, it’s probably a prank or a hoax, but I don’t really care. After all, it’s regular folks – not ALA elites – who have been subject to a really cruel and expensive series of pranks for years now. Y’know, the prank where people go to graduate school, under the false impression that there will be jobs available after they graduate, and then they have their hopes and dreams destroyed because there aren’t enough jobs to go around? Super-funny prank, huh?

A librarian shortage “just around the corner!” Hilarious! Hysterical!

It was also pretty great to have an ALA representative come by to clear up the Davis hoax for us. Ms. Bourdon is the Associate Executive Director for Communications and Media Relations at American Libraries magazine! Does that make AL important now?

Annoyed Librarian for ALA president!

I wonder if Ms. Bourdon might come back to clear up the hoaxes for which the ALA is responsible?