Ohio seems conspicuously absent. And what about Seattle? Portland? Minneapolis? Madison? I don't know anything about libraries, but these seem like places that would keep them well-funded.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 18 September 2006 04:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly d (mollyd), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Monday, 18 September 2006 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.majordojo.com/photos/public_library/DSC_0558-photo.JPG
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 18 September 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link
On the subject of the O.C. (and a new orchestra building): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/18/AR2006091801393.html
I thought this was a very non Post article, in that it was pretty good.
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― the kinkade fire (willpie), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/etc/game1/game1.swf
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
That is quite, quite insane.
― treefell, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
We will be glad to answer questions like these:
* What is the zip code to Panama City, Florida? * What is the capital and state bird of New Mexico? * Who wrote the patent on the Cotton Gin?
But we will be unable to answer questions like these:
* Please give me the complete history of the Roman Empire. * Please give me a biography of Theodore Roosevelt. * Explain to me how the stock market works
― Filey Camp, Monday, 7 April 2008 10:03 (sixteen years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxax1xzJ321qz6f9yo1_500.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 February 2010 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
sign otm
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Thursday, 4 February 2010 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
It is true, this.
― quincie, Thursday, 4 February 2010 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I applied for a job as Library Services Assistant. There was a digital book sorting test and somehow I only got 11/18 from the fiction shelf correct (maybe one book messed up the rest of the books). I got 18/18 from the nonfiction shelf.
Librarians, is this a sign that I won't be hired?
― yookeroo, Thursday, 21 October 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
on librarian-porn literature
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 January 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
I dropped out of my library grad program today after two weeks.
I thought I would love it, but it turns out that at this juncture, my brain just can't click with it. I deferred, technically, so there's always the future (if someone can convince me that it's worth it and I don't find a sick gig in the meantime), but I have to admit that I don't think I want to be a librarian any more!
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 4 September 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
good move. you strike me as creative and it's not a great career for creative people ime.
this thread is partially responsible for me taking this path and i should have chosen differently but seeing as how i'm finally securely employed w/ decent benefits in a quiet job with no looming budget cuts (at least this year), i'm going to stick with it.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 4 September 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
Thanks for yr thoughts, map.
It's funny, I'm very good at certain types of tasks that are distinctly uncreative— editing papers, proofreading, building spreadsheets, etc. But for some reason, you ask me to dwell upon questions like "what is a document?" or whether records can ever be neutral and I'm just like, "this is so obvious as to be incredibly boring, why am I wasting my time with this shit." I almost feel like my own understandings of the way the world works got in the way of my being able to really click with the discipline in some way.
Kudos to you on getting a decent job, tho. I'm hoping that with some work and study, I'll get a proofreading/editing gig soon enough.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 4 September 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
i got my MLIS about a decade ago and have been working in libraries, but after getting laid off from my most recent library gig, i'm back in the corporate world and not a librarian anymore (though still working in research/info organization, so technically still using my MLIS). ironically i used part of the severance payment from my last library job to finally finish paying off the grad school student loans from getting my MLIS. the degree seems pretty pointless for the most part, it's sad that it has become almost mandatory for most professional library jobs because it's not really necessary to do the work of a librarian in most cases.
― na (NA), Friday, 4 September 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
i went to library school thinking of it mostly as a trade school, i.e., trying to get the skills and knowledge i needed to do the work rather than a deep-dive into the philosophy of information sciences or whatever. from that perspective it was pretty frustrating.
― na (NA), Friday, 4 September 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
best to you table, i hope you find something decent soon.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 4 September 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
in retrospect i have the opinion that if a person doesn't have a pretty clear idea of what library job they want from the get-go and are like dead set on it they should probably not be paying $ for library school.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 4 September 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
I am most interested in digitization and preservation of analog media such as VHS cassettes and tape cassettes, as well as small press books, flyers, and other cultural ephemera. I don't really care too much about the philosophy of information sciences— I just want to find solutions for objects like my pre-condom VHS gay porn collection, which seems like it is important to queer studies and media studies fields.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 4 September 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
there really isn't a lot of technical know-how involved, it's more about who you know for that sort of thing, and who has money to fund it. i did attend a rare booksellers' school (weeklong symposium thing) where i learned that a lot of specialty booksellers have gotten into acquiring and and then selling archival material to academic institutions and private collectors.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 4 September 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
tbh i'm glad that i'm no longer employed by / working within higher ed especially after this year but a lot of that is due to my own personal experience of disillusion.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 4 September 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I guess that I thought the MLIS might help get me into a position where I might be able to work on such projects in a real way, but I'm pretty certain it's not worth it! I just wish I had the resources to do all this work myself.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 4 September 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
Heya folks -- friend of mine (here in the US) just contacted me saying this:
wanted to pick your brain for a sec - my partner started her library science masters last fall and is coming up on the end of her first year. as you can imagine zoom university has made the whole ordeal less than ideal and she's been looking for help to kind of guide her into her next year and potential specialization.
Since I'm an assistant and not an MLIS holder nor currently on top of what hiring trends/hot areas are like, I said I'd ask around -- would anyone who feels they can provide some good perspective be available to help? If so, send me contact info via ILXmail or elsewhere and I'll pass it along. Much thanks!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 20:10 (three years ago) link
Keep reading about these old school Library Apartments in Manhattan.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 April 2021 15:12 (three years ago) link
I was a librarian at school, on my second shift I was told that a pen had been lost, found the pen, labelled the pen with a post-it-note saying "the lost pen" then labelled all the other pens with "not the lost pen." Then I was told off for wasting post-it notes and was suddenly no longer a librarian.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 16 April 2021 15:17 (three years ago) link
Not a librarian. I married one.
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Friday, 16 April 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
drop out of school immediately
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 16 April 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
Drop out of BU.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 April 2021 18:58 (three years ago) link