County bid to shelve term librarian: the librarian, the traditional name for a keeper of book collections, is to be dropped by Hampshire library service.
Richard Ward, head of the library service, told staff of the name-change in a series of briefings on plans to restructure the service.
The county council plans to cut 40 per cent of the 60 qualified librarian posts and downgrade a further 30 per cent, paying them less. Professional librarians who don’t volunteer for redundancy can apply for posts re-named “service development officers.”
There are also new manager and library officer posts, but according to The Gazette, nobody in Hampshire library service will officially be called a librarian.
I have a good idea
Hire people to reshelve the books, however give them no training nor supervision by trained, competent staff. Pay them next to nothing and call them…librar…no, call them dolts.
Then in about six months when everyone stops going to the book place (no sense calling it a library) just close it.
Look at all the money saved.
It is not what you call people, but what they are qualified to do. Call them Circus Clowns if you wish, but hire qualified librarians.