Comments on: Why people continue to work in libraries (survey results)

By: 梦溪

梦溪 — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:04:18 +0000

我喜欢你对于图书馆的热情
i adore your enthusiasm for the librarian mission. The values of BOOKs need to be refound and cherished. They deserve better persons to care for them,

I love BOOKs and I hope I can be a librarian and own my own circle of friends who share the same dream with me.

By: bba

bba — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:34:01 +0000

Good post. I really like the way that you explained.

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Why people continue to work in libraries (survey results) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:10:34 +0000

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Why people continue to work in libraries (survey results) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:57:20 +0000

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By: andrea

andrea — Wed, 26 May 2010 02:44:32 +0000

i was one of the last hired at my last library job, and so would have been the first fired. i left voluntarily a few months earlier (i’d rather leave then be told to leave..) but it was clear as can be that i was going to be laid off in july. there were about a half a dozen other librarians hired around when i was, most of us fairly young with good to very good tech skills, a ton of enthusiasm and we were, as i was told repeatedly, a great jolt of ‘new blood’ into the library system. as far as i know, the vast majority of those hired around when i was are getting their pink slips next week. ah well.

the library situation looks bleak right now in the u.s. but i’m hoping things change. i took a chance and moved to south america, bolivia to be exact. – who knows, maybe i’ll start a little library here!

thanks for the post, and good luck sarah.

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By: Meg

Meg — Fri, 14 May 2010 05:24:41 +0000

Retire? What is this retirement and replacing of positions of which you speak? No one retires at my library. They either fill that position until they drop dead in it, or they resign 1) because the whole family is moving, 2) for a much better position elsewhere. For the past four years as this has happened, the positions have only occasionally been filled. The rest of the time the work is simply doled out for those who remain to absorb. And that was before the hiring freeze went into effect. I keep seeing that predicted need for librarians when all those aging librarians retire, and I don’t believe it for a minute. They’ll hang in there as long as they can, and when they go, management won’t replace them. Good luck, job hunters. :/

By: Floating Clouds

Floating Clouds — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:57:52 +0000

I am trying to break away from the Public Library syndrome by utilizing all of my librarian skills and talents within a different form of work…stretching and broadening my horizons so to speak. I am very disillusioned with most (not all) public libraries as we now know them. Most refused to see the glaring writing on the wall, refused to be open to change and new paradigms, refused to advocate for and support their librarian staff (both management and union), maintain top heavy, bureaucratic and corporate modeled organization, reward mediocrity, manifest fear, mistrust, job insecurity and low morale, provide unclean, unsafe work environments, do not put the customer first, and sometimes engage in unethical practices. I still believe in the mission of libraries and absolutely love the work…but entered the profession with great naivete. I am now trying to find a way to creatively bow out and find more rewarding work or a more progressive and accommodating library system.