Re: Uneducated "librarians"

[Seth and Betsy Budney <sbbudney@ENTERACT.COM>]

Yes! Audiology.  As an audiologist currently pursuing a professional
change, I can tell you that there are "technicians" and nurses, doctors and
dentists, with minimal to no training in the anatomy and pathologies of the
ear, and virtually no training in testing who are performing hearing
evaluations and dispensing hearing aids because their state allows it. As
an audiologist I need a master's degree, national certification, and state
testing to do these things.  I think if you really check around you will
find that librarians are not the only ones who get "replaced."
I must add, however, that the reason I am going into this field is because
I had such a positive experience volunteering in my daughters' school
library.  Right now I am working with a substitute teacher who is not a
librarian, but she is Wonderful! I couldn't ask for a better model of
innovation and teaching in the library.  She does not pretend to know it
all, and defers to me in technical matters because I have the training.
I also had no idea what librarians had to know until I got to school.
I know I'll get flak for this next statement, but, I also feel that
teachers with endorsements are missing vital training that librarians with
master's degrees possess.  Yet, they are hired, and the schools are
grateful to have them.  In a profession where the professional pickings are
lean, schools will do what they feel they must to service the children.

Betsy Budney, graduate student
Dominican University
River Forest, IL
sbbudney@enteract.com




Katrinka wrote:
Does anyone know of any other profession that by definition requires a
Master's Degree and yet is frequently staffed (at least in NH) by anyone
who
enters the door and says they "like books" ?
Lawyers?  Teachers?
Why is a degreed librarian  worth/valued/appreciated so very little by so
many Educators?

Katrina Yurenka, librarian
New Boston Central School, New Boston, NH
kyurenka83@hotmail.com

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