[WEB4LIB] What a UCLA Student Thinks of Librarians

[Kathy P. Wheeler]

That line bugged me too -- I can deal with trying to be funny if one
actually succeeds at it but he doesn't. And that line is so blatantly
sexist as to defy comment. Then, considering that he is at UCLA, which the
last I remember anyway was a very big place, I'm wondering where exactly
is he going to the library or if he's even going at all. 

I was also impressed by this:"Now, without bothering to actually research
the program (and possibly forsaking the comic potential), I will attempt
to relay the import of this discovery to you." Yes, why bother to research
something to find out if you might make an idiot of yourself before you
write about it?
 
 Kathy Wheeler
e-mail: kwheeler at jaguar1.usouthal.edu Electronic Services Librarian    
University Library
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL  36688
homepage: http://library.southalabama.edu

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, gprice wrote:

> Hello from D.C.
> 
> 
> Librarians
> Source: UCLA Daily Bruin
> Title:
> Library Science Degree: File that Under 'Stupid'
> http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/articles.asp?ID=18860
> 
> After reading this article you'll be uttering the words, "is this a joke". 
> Unfortunately, I don't think it is. The writer of this column, a fourth 
> year molecular, cell and developmental biology student, has a problem with 
> library science/librarians and that's putting it mildly. Instead of 
> excerpting a couple of sentences, click on the url and read the entire 
> Viewpoint column. Wait, I can't resist, here are two sentences, "First of 
> all, does this [Library Science] really need to be a graduate program? As 
> far as I can remember, every librarian with whom I have ever come in 
> contact has been a socially inept housewife who needs a little extra income 
> to help out around the homestead."
> 
> 
> cheers,
> gary, the librarian
> 
> 
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