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Date: 2004-06-21 09:18 am (UTC)--- s
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Date: 2004-06-21 09:35 am (UTC)http://www.scphillips.com/morse/trans.html
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Date: 2004-06-21 10:22 am (UTC)sigh.
work work work...
back to it...
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Date: 2004-06-21 09:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-21 09:33 am (UTC)Nope...
Date: 2004-06-21 10:31 am (UTC)I'd go into more detail, but I need more sleep first.
K
Re: Nope...
Date: 2004-06-21 11:48 am (UTC)Re: Nope...
Date: 2004-06-23 08:46 am (UTC)First, the Internet is not going to eliminate librarians. There were all sorts of death knells for the profession at first, but then someone finally realized an age old truth; It doesn't help to have all the information in the world if you are just going to place it in a random pile. Librarians are the people who are actually good at *organizing* information. I had a cataloging teacher in Library school who liked to hang out with cutting edge Comp Sci people, just so she could hear their latest ideas on organizing online content. She's sit there and look vastly impressed and then say, something like 'Wow, you managed to come up with an idea all on your own that Monks in Europe have been using for centuries. They even ironed out that problem you're still struggling with by doing this _________. Yeah, they got that all out of the way back in the 16th century. I can give you some references if that would help . . . ." Places like Google and the corporate world are snapping up Library school grads at such a pace that Public libraries are having a hard time keeping positions staffed. Its really amazing. Teaching can be an important aspect of being a librarian, but really its more a side line than the main show. However, since they created the methods for organizing the info., librarians tend to be the ones who have to explain it to others.
As for the sexual identity of the profession, the idea of it being a pink collar position are relatively recent and almost exclusively an American innovation. Melville Dewey (as in the Dewey Decimal system) noticed in the late-ish 1800s that there were suddenly a large increase of educated women in America who couldn't get jobs and were not suited by education (and, he believed, temperment) for the more 'traditional' roles available to women. He reasoned that he could hire them, at reduced salaries compared to men, and train them in his systems and they wouldn't have the gumption to argue with him (proving beyond all shadow of a doubt that Dewey knew books, but hadn't a freakin' clue about women). In places like Europe, Library's are primarily staffed my men. THe transition you are curious about is going on, but in the US, the stats are still something like 4 out of every 5 people in the profession are female to male.
Sorry, who knew I was paying attention in all of those basic grad school courses :)
Brandon
Translations upon demand?
Date: 2004-06-21 09:39 am (UTC)Re: Translations upon demand?
Date: 2004-06-21 09:49 am (UTC)Re: Translations upon demand?
Date: 2004-06-21 10:29 am (UTC)Re: Translations upon demand?
Date: 2004-06-21 11:29 am (UTC)Re: Translations upon demand?
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Date: 2004-06-21 10:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-21 12:19 pm (UTC)Ooops, brain/keyboard filter failure.
Nope, ganked the idea from you!
Date: 2004-06-21 12:33 pm (UTC)Re: Nope, ganked the idea from you!
Date: 2004-06-21 12:46 pm (UTC)And I'm not pissed.
Although I was thinking or issuing a
Re: Nope, ganked the idea from you!
Date: 2004-06-21 03:19 pm (UTC)(Not like I can read
Re: Nope, ganked the idea from you!
Date: 2004-06-21 07:47 pm (UTC)He is, AFAICT, cool.
Re: Nope, ganked the idea from you!
Date: 2004-06-22 06:54 am (UTC)(and the FFS ain't so bad either) ;)
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