Re: Should librarians shelve books?

[Ken Umbach <kumbach@UNLIMITED.NET>]

If I may, $.02 worth from a non-librarian-per-se research guy who works in a
library.  I often find myself photocopying, faxing, delivering documents,
downloading and printing articles, and doing other things that are broadly
comparable to shelving and stamping cards ... it just seems to be the sort
of thing that one has to do in the interstices when there is not an abundant
supply of folks to handle those kinds of tasks.  In State government, we
have a term that covers all of that sort of thing: "other duties as required."

Regards,

Ken

At 06:44 PM 11/23/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi
>   After reading some of the replies. I agree with those who say we are too
>expensive an investment in professionalism to be shelving books and stamping
>cards. One of my professors in library school said he hoped he wouldn't find
>us doing that if he were to visit.
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Kenneth W. Umbach, Ph.D.
Policy Analyst, California Research Bureau, California State Library
Sacramento, CA (kumbach@unlimited.net or kumbach@library.ca.gov)
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