Hiring Librarians

[Jay Smith]

Scott uses "many" possibly to defend himself from charges of unfairly 
categorizing librarians.  Even so, I did feel the sting of being unfairly
lumped.

The problem of the "otherside of trying to hire librarians" is at least
partly that the salaries offered aren't attractive enough to bother applying.
The offers I've seen on this listserv have not tempted me enough to want
to apply since these full-time salaries were a good deal less than that
of my current part-time position.  It's especially galling since I'm
almost entirely self-taught and take pride in my accomplishment.

No comment on buggy whips.

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On Sat, 24 Aug 1996 guthery at austin.sar.slb.com wrote:

> I've been on the otherside of trying to hire librarians.  We've realized that
> we need library science people to do technology watch and to organize our
> Intranet.
> 
> 1) I've been greeted with a very, very cold shoulder by many library
>    science departments when I've come calling 
> 
> 2) many library science people don't see that "net books" are just
>    like real books and need the same care and attention ... even more so
>    and maybe with fresh approaches
> 
> 3) many library science people want to "bunkerize" classical libraries
>    rather than mix them in with the web
> 
> 4) many library science people shy away from jobs with a high
>    communication component
> 
> 5) there are few courses in "off the shelf" library science curriculums
>    which deal with serving from and organizing web-based information
> 
> It shouldn't surprise people that the going rate for even the best buggy whip
> maker isn't what it used to be.
> 
> Cheers, Scott
>