Titles; was, Re: text-based Internet?

[whires at pop.service.ohio-state.edu]

For Miriam,
I agree with you that the statement by Rob Pettengill was uncalled 
for. Not only that, it was a callous disregard to situations like 
that which you described which are more the norm rather than the 
exception. The title "Internet Administrator" gives no definition to 
what the person holding it actually does; consequently what anybody 
"thinks" it means will probably always lie askew of reality. 

Keep asking questions everybody. Whether what we "should" (or "should 
not" know) is a matter of debate or not. If ever you don't know, 
please do refuse to remain in that condition!

......WH

At 05:36 PM 1/21/97 -0800, Rob Pettengill wrote:

>Also scary that someone with the title "Internet Administrator" doesn't
know >stuff like this.  

I can't speak for the situation of the original poster, but I can tell you
about my situation. I have the title "Reference Librarian and Library
Automation Systems Manager", which translates to something like: this
full-time reference librarian is pretty good at teaching herself stuff, and
knows more than anybody else on the staff about technological matters (not
even remotely enough, just more); so, since there's no hope of getting a
systems position funded, she's it.

We do the best we can: public libraries do, and their
nearest-thing-to-a-techie people do. I learn things in odd orders, and as
necessary or possible, and on my own time. There's a lot of "stuff like
this" I haven't got a handle on. Having to be reluctant to ask questions of
the technogods on Web4Lib won't make it easier.

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