from: weedcute <weedcute@yahoo.com>
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Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:09 PM
I found this blog entry published at Library Journal on June 17, 2009 and thought it rather interesting.
This is the Link http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/580000658/post/1120045712.html
In summary, the author questions the criteria required for someone to call themselves a librarian. Is it the MLIS? Would someone with an MLS, but who didn't work in a library or as a librarian, still be considered a librarian? The author concluded that just having an MLS doesn't make someone a librarian. One has to actually work as a librarian or in a library to be a "librarian."
Quotes
"And what about that tiny minority of people with a bachelor's degree in library science who don't have MLS degrees. Can they ever be librarians?"
"Is a librarian anyone with an MLS? No. I have a degree in art and I can assure you I am not an artist."
"If you know the difference between LC, MARC, cataloging, and classifying,
....you might be a librarian."
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