Message-Id: <mailto:199411290711.BAA08045@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 17:13:00 EST From: "John R. Garrett" <mailto:0004716758@MCIMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: Position description To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
I find the view that people with library degrees have some special claims on positions (a "right" to certain jobs) to be both dispiriting and indefensible. Employers will hire the person for a position who is most likely to do the job well. Sometimes, for jobs in libraries or involving information, that will be someone with the mls union card, sometimes not. Instead of berating the employers, perhaps one might instead wonder what it is about library training -- or people who choose to become librarians -- that leads so many employers to look elsewhere to fill non-traditional positions -- and what can be done about it. In the library world, Dick Dougherty at Michigan has thought deeply about these issues, and finds them much more complicated than several posters here have suggested.John Garrett