Message-Id: <mailto:199411302217.QAA25513@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 17:11:40 -0500 From: Ann Morton <mailto:mrtn@TROI.CC.ROCHESTER.EDU> Subject: Re: Position description To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
Okay, mea culpa. I apologise. My statement was perhaps a bit too strongly worded. What I was trying to get at, succinctly, was that an MLS or MLIS is no guarentee that the person will be any good at the job. I was too succinct (and a little too short tempered). I don't hate librarians, honest. I'm even married to one.However, some of the most unhelpful, inflexible, dogmatic, "library-people" I've ever hand the misfortune to work with have been highly trained professional librarians. Some of the most helpful, most creative (and nicest) have been part-time and volunteers. They had the basic skills already-organization, attention to detail, etc... and were trying to learn the library terminology. They brought with them "outside" approaches to problems, and applied them to library situations, in order to "get the job done"--provide me with the information I needed.
I should add that they were almost all at small academic, special, or local public libraries. Maybe big libraries just can't function like that.
I promise to keep quite from now on.
Ann Morton mailto:mrtn@troi.cc.rochester