Corporate (Special) Librarians – Growing Trend

search-engines-web.com sends” us another stereotype-buster story about corporate librarians from the Philadelphia Enquirer

Now, being a librarian takes Internet savvy, organization, keen business sense and a touch of a detective’s skills.

July 7, 2004 by Uncategorized 4

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4 Responses

  1. liz says:
    July 7, 2004 at 7:31 pm

    Actually the Cincinnati Enquirer
    Sometimes confused with the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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  2. Bookworm says:
    July 8, 2004 at 4:37 am

    stereotype busting
    Great article. Had to really laugh out loud when I read this. While getting my hair cut today, I mentioned to my hair cutter that I was thinking of starting a Masters program in library and information science. She was astounded that there was even such a degree available. Naturally, this astounded me! She and the owner of the shop had not a clue that one “needed” to go to school for this… She went on to say she always thought it was “for losers, geeks, or old people”. I asked her when the last time was that she’d been in a library. Need I explain that she couldn’t remember. She works in Greenwich, CT, which happens to have one of the most amazing public libraries I have ever seen – completely state of the art and loaded with everything from periodicals to an art gallery. She’d never been there. Oy vey! I promised her that when I saw her again I’d bring her in the graduate school catalogue. Shows you how naive I am, eh? Hey, maybe she’ll learn something about the world, despite herself!?

    Again, thanks for the article – it’s very helpful to read about even more options available.

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  3. VALIS says:
    July 8, 2004 at 8:17 am

    Dewey’s dead?
    ” Gone are the days of shushing and the Dewey decimal system.”

    Really? Anyone want to give me a hand, then? I’ve got ~4000 volumes to recatalogue.

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  4. ChuckB says:
    July 8, 2004 at 9:52 pm

    Re:stereotype busting

    When I decided to go to library school, I had been doing para-professional public library reference work for about 7 years. I told my wife I wanted to be a cataloger. She thought catalogers were the people who put the labels on the spines of the books. And my wife is well-educated!

    As misunderstood as library work in general is, I suspect even many assiduous library users have little idea what goes on behind the scenes to make it all work.

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