Comments on: Is librarianship a profession? http://walt.lishost.org/2008/03/is-librarianship-a-profession/ The library voice of the radical middle. Sun, 06 Nov 2016 03:32:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7 By: PaulW http://walt.lishost.org/2008/03/is-librarianship-a-profession/comment-page-1/#comment-33304 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:17:09 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=749#comment-33304 Librarianship is a profession.
Speaking as a reference librarian, the job requires the skills of research, of interpreting information well enough to know where to store it and how to make it accessible to others. It involves a lot of knowledge covering a lot of topics, almost a Jack-of-all-trades to where you know just enough about everything from computers to cars to art to literature to history to people to, well, the universe.

I kinda like the title of Bibliographic Researching Expert.

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By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2008/03/is-librarianship-a-profession/comment-page-1/#comment-32367 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:54:16 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=749#comment-32367 As noted in email: No mea culpa needed. I have not made a big deal out of being self-trained as a library systems analyst (of course, in 1968, I’m not sure where you’d go to get that training…), and that’s certainly where I’ve made my living.

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By: Dorothea Salo http://walt.lishost.org/2008/03/is-librarianship-a-profession/comment-page-1/#comment-32366 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:57:49 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=749#comment-32366 Bleh, my bad, sorry. Will add a link and a mea culpa.

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