Re: teacher vs librarian - Tibrarian???

["Anderson, Julie LHS-STAFF" <AndersonJ@ISSAQUAH.WEDNET.EDU>]

I gotta disagree with you, Earl.  The scenario you have described is only
true if you work for a large public library system.  When I worked as a
public librarian in a city with a single library, I did all of those things
in my job.  I also recall reading the reference librarian is among the most
stressful jobs because you often have a line of people waiting for help and
so you rush around trying to get everyone what they need.  For me, being in
a school library has different stressors, but they are not more or less than
those I experienced in the public library.  We all need time off, like
Europe!

Julie

Julie Anderson, Librarian
Liberty High School, Renton, WA
425.837.4901
andersonj@issaquah.wednet.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Earl J. Moniz [mailto:earlj@MONIZ.ORG]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 9:27 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: teacher vs librarian - Tibrarian???


Joni, TK, and our favorite Latin friend, Et Al.,
Don't overlook the fact that public librarians have quite a bit of a
division of labor sort of organization...
The pretty much know what they are going to do every day...  The reference
librarians don't get involved much with circulation...  The catalogers
rarely see a patron about anything... The circulation librarians rarely get
involved with the technology or the online references...  The collection
development librarians never catalog or work the circulation desk... and
hardly any licensed librarian shelves books - they have non-degree interns,
minimum wage employees, and volunteers who do that sort of thing...  unlike
a school librarian who is everything to everyone everyday!  Public
librarians don't have teachers and parents and administrators and students
demanding they do more with less simply because the last school they worked
at, or attended, had a librarian who seemed to do everything with nothing!
So, although the pay is less or perhaps comparable at times... the stress
level between jobs is no comparison!  School librarians *need* that time
off!

Aloha y'all ... Earl J.
Librarian of Fortune
Web-based at www.MONIZ.org
Reality-based at Fayetteville, NC

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