LISNews: Librarian News

Michael Bartlett writes, \"Reaction is mixed on a preliminary finding by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that a group of Minneapolis librarians was exposed to a sexually hostile work environment because of pornography downloaded on library computers.\" [more...] from NewsBytes.

Guy writes \"The guy who runs centralbooking.com said nation\'s librarians, a group that gets riled up about as often as a tray of peat moss in this article
Funny! He obviously doesn\'t know any librarians! \"
It\'s from another review of \"Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper\"

Claudia Bennett writes:\"Nicholson argues that the American people have been \"tricked\" into thinking that newsprint and books turn to dust, and librarians have unconsciously destroyed priceless information, including some off-the-record remarks Richard Nixon once made. Nicholson tells McHenry: \"There are so many bizarre contradictions in all of this. . .I found myself kind of moaning and saying--typing--\'It\'s worse than you thought. Entire Interview\"

Lee Hadden has written an interesting look at class rules and the social order in libraries. Since he put Systems Librarians near the top, I can\'t help but agree with him ;-)

\"It doesn\'t surprise me that there are problems of going from one
aspect of librarianship to another. It violates class rules in libraries,
and upsets the social order.
Actually, there is an unnamed but very strongly identified pecking
order in the class of librarians. Why are people getting so upset over this
problem? Passions are heated because the stakes are so small. Actually,
social settings are set up rather like a water fountain, with a number of
different library jobs floating at the top, but fewer identified ones at
the bottom. \"

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We've had several interesting interviews so far this
year, they include all 3 Presidential Candidates for the
ALA, Maurice J. Freedman, Ken Haycock, and William Sannwald, and also Pat Schroeder, from the APA.

This time around I sent John W. Berry, President
Elect at the ALA, the same questions the current
candidates received. Read on to see what the new
president of the ALA has to say on all the current topics
that interested YOU, the loyal LISnews readers. -- Read More