Comments on: How to Troll Librarians and Make Money in Five Easy Steps https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/how-to-troll-librarians-and-make-money-in-five-easy-steps/ the neverending reference interview of life Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:31:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: magpielibrarian https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/how-to-troll-librarians-and-make-money-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-12934 Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:58:43 +0000 http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/?p=1525#comment-12934 Aren’t you cute?

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By: Tara F. https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/how-to-troll-librarians-and-make-money-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-12919 Thu, 20 Mar 2014 11:58:08 +0000 http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/?p=1525#comment-12919 Pot, meet kettle.

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By: Michael https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/how-to-troll-librarians-and-make-money-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-8334 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:48:04 +0000 http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/?p=1525#comment-8334 Actually, Andy, I don’t even know where I saw it. My point was simply that, if they were writing this junk just to throw ads at me, it didn’t work at all.

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By: Michael https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/how-to-troll-librarians-and-make-money-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-8333 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:45:08 +0000 http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/?p=1525#comment-8333 And here in the U.S., we’re being replaced with part-timers for whom this is just another job. Which is appropriate, since many of them in my library are minimum wage. Seriously, if what I did (just quit librarianship because I couldn’t get paid enough) could easily be done by someone without a master’s degree, why is it required so many places? And why did I go $30K into debt in the first place?

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By: 3 Geeks and a Law Blog: If You Have To Tell People You're Valuable… You're Probably Not https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/how-to-troll-librarians-and-make-money-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-8319 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:30:39 +0000 http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/?p=1525#comment-8319 […] media spectrum.  Perhaps my favorite (so far) was the tongue-in-cheek post by Andy Woodworth, "How to Troll Librarians and Make Money in Five Easy Steps." In that article, Andy explains that if you want to make a lot of money off of the emotions of […]

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By: Does public opinion matter? « bringyournoise https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/how-to-troll-librarians-and-make-money-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-8311 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:46:19 +0000 http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/?p=1525#comment-8311 […] blurb listing librarian as one of the least stressful jobs. Annoyed Librarian has written about it; Agnostic Maybe. Screwy Decimal has written a rebuttal of sorts. There was a trending topic on Twitter at […]

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By: Rita https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/how-to-troll-librarians-and-make-money-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-8290 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:52:15 +0000 http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/?p=1525#comment-8290 I completely agree with what Bobbi said: “Can’t we all just get along when we’re all working tirelessly each day to serve our patrons?” That’s the only reason I wrote my own blog post to begin with – to defend librarians, not to divide them. I’m sorry it’s gotten so out of hand.

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By: Librarian By Day https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/how-to-troll-librarians-and-make-money-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-8289 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:37:37 +0000 http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/?p=1525#comment-8289 Through this entire debacle I have remained silent, but I feel it’s time to speak up. At the true heart of this whole stress or no stress thing that was started by a ridiculous article is really the fact that by saying librarians have little stress the profession is put down. Not one of us want our profession to be devalued. We all believe that we do is for a greater good (at least I hope we do.) it is disheartening to see the job we put our hearts and souls into put down or diminished in any way.

However, we work in a job that can oftentimes be short on “thank yous” and is not generally recognized as respectable. We all know the stereotypes that come with being a librarian. We all know that many people think we sit around and read books all day. I agree that there is always a place for advocacy because that is how we can educate the public about our true value, but we must remember that we are fighting an uphill battle at times.

Infighting never helps solve anything and definitely does not advance our place in the eyes of the public. But there must also be a place for humor in our lives. Misinterpretation of advocacy efforts and/or humor has lead to more anger. We all do our jobs out of an intrinsic desire and love for what we do. We all have stress and frustration in our workplaces. While it is true that we rely on our community of peers to understand our stress we must also recognize that sometimes we must all lighten up.

I guess what I’m saying is that the rage behind all of this comes from a place of feeling diminished by the article; a feeling that perhaps the article will only further secure our profession as one that does not deserve respect. At the end of the day it opened up emotions and arguments that surely had been welling up inside many people. The rage that followed fueled the success of the article, just as Andy points out. Continuing to discuss and rehash all these things furthers the anger.

Can’t we all just get along when we’re all working tirelessly each day to serve our patrons?

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By: ianclark507 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/how-to-troll-librarians-and-make-money-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-8288 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:19:54 +0000 http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/?p=1525#comment-8288 I think that was part of the problem. Certainly my fellow UK librarians were shocked by some of the mocking. It is not pleasant here to have government at all levels deciding that some random bod can do the job as well as you. And this is accelerating.

I’m sorry to say, also, that articles like that were common here before the volunteers thing started. People didn’t challenge it (especially professionally bodies) and now the slow drip, drip, drip has led to politicians thinking that, yeah, who needs these librarians after all?

Sorry, I accept that you and others may not appreciate where UK libs were coming from as it’s not an issue there. I do, however, still disagree with you in general. But it would be a dull world if we all agreed. And I’d rather have the balls to speak up than to let it fester and stress me out. I think my fellow UK libs would have been surprised if I didn’t speak out. It’s what I do and it’s why I’ve busted a gut engaging with the national media to try and turn things back from this volunteers can be librarians crap. Anyways, rant over :)

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By: Bitchy Librarian (@bitchylibrarian) https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/how-to-troll-librarians-and-make-money-in-five-easy-steps/#comment-8287 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:55:09 +0000 http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/?p=1525#comment-8287 I just googled volunteers replacing librarians and I see that it’s gaining ground in the UK. That isn’t happening here in the US where I work. I’m sorry that the UK doesn’t value expertise and experience and is looking for an easy out when it comes to staffing.

I do know that teachers are often replaced by less-trained teacher’s aides. My friend was a teacher’s aide for several years and she was paid far less than a teacher and was teaching a class of her own, even though that was not what her job description included.

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