Information Losing Value

[Walz, Jennifer]

Well, I'll tell you that I really could be making a great deal more
money if I WASN'T a librarian and instead chose to be a Netware Admin,
computer consultant, or a webmaster alone.  Instead I do ALL of those as
part of a library job.  But it has not increased my pay.  I think the
continuing ed idea and CE credits ought to take hold in library-land.
Then wages would go up according to  those criteria.

  J. Walz

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                  Cybrarian of the First Degree --
           Jennifer Walz, MLS, Head of Public Services
      Morrison-Kenyon Library, Asbury College, Wilmore, KY  40390
   jlwalz at asbury.edu      http://worf.ubalt.edu/~jwalz/walzweb.html
                   Omne Ignotum Pro Magnifico Est - Tacitus

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>From: 	Joe Schallan[SMTP:jschall at glenpub.lib.az.us]
>Sent: 	Friday, February 21, 1997 4:19PM
>To: 	Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: 	Re: Information Losing Value
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>At 10:05 AM on 2/21/97, Nick Arnett wrote:
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>[snip]
>>. . . information.  When time is wasted looking for valuable information
>>(this is not to imply that all "looking" is wasted time), then the value of
>>tools that reduce the search time increase.
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>By this analysis, the value of experienced, competent librarians
>should have been increasing.  This obviously has not been
>happening.  Librarians' salaries, low to begin with, are not
>rising any faster than general rates of inflation.
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>This has been variously attributed to librarianship being a female
>ghetto, or to the anti-intellectualism of American culture, which
>equally disrespects all knowledge workers, or to the lack of a
>rigorous scientific underpinning for library research and
>practice.
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>Librarianship has responded by increasing the emphasis on
>having credentials, by attempting to obtain such distinctions
>as "faculty status," and by changing the names of its
>professional schools to emphasize "information science."
>(But the emperor still has no clothes.)
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>None of this appears to have worked.  Any evidence so far
>that webmastering helps increase pay?
>
>Joe
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>Joe Schallan, MLS
>Reference Librarian/Web Page Editor
>Glendale (Arizona) Public Library
>jschall at glenpub.lib.az.us
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