Message-Id: <mailto:199411282118.AA20315@wugate.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 08:55:48 EST From: mailto:IGribovsky%IDRC.CA@wuvmd.bitnet Subject: Re: Position description To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
I'm glad to be getting some feedback...especially since most seem to support my original beef, namely: Why should non-librarians (i.e. someone with no MLS or MLIS) be given positions that are rightfully ours? Would anyone contemplate hiring a non-engineer to build bridges? Or someone with no medical degree to work as a doctor? I think not.It really is true that we have to stand up for our rights, make noise and be noticed, or else the jobs will continue to slip away...
PS. I acknowledge that many academic position do require a double masters these days (meaning an MLS plus a Masters in whatever domain the position happens to be in) -- no problem with that. But someone who is not a librarian has no business doing our job (& employers have no business hiring non-librarians to do professional librarian work)...even if that individual has 2 PhD's!!