Most librarians I know can pinpoint a time where they learned that most librarians have much more to do than just sit behind a reference desk and/or buy books. This can be problematized by media renditions of librarians that highlight these parts of the job at the expense of others, or news reports that view every person working in a library as a librarian. These are hard issues to resolve, especially when you don’t want to widen the rift between professionals and paraprofessionals in the field, and espcially where in many libraries people wear many hats. In any case, since I’m now working with libraries, but not as a librarian, I thought I’d let people know what it is that I’m doing all day lately. My official title is Community Technology Mentor, but really I’m just the Computer Lady and one who works a lot with libraries and librarians.
Tag: jobs
the librarian shortage in the US and abroad
More on the librarian shortage. Remember, just because librarians are retiring doesn’t mean new ones will get jobs. A great article and post by one of my favorite Australian library bloggers whose Exploded Library blog is now going to be archived by the PANDORA project of the National Library of Australia.
congrats meredith!
Now it can be told: Meredith from Information Wants to be Free, and the ALA Wiki, is going to be my new [sort of] neighbor. She’s moving to Vermont to become a Distance Learning Librarian. We got to meet her and her husband this past week, and I’m really looking forward to having another tech-savvy librarian to pal around with.