For those of you who wish to read the offensive article it is online at
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/articles.asp?ID=18860
Some quotes to make your blood boil .....
"As far as I can remember, every librarian with whom I have ever come in
contact has been a socially inept housewife who needs a little extra income
to help out around the homestead. ....
"Other than an uncanny ability to impede potential hoopla and merrymaking, I
don't understand why these overzealous school marms need to attend a
professional school, and thus be equated with scientists, doctors and
lawyers. I don't even think you need a GED to successfully put books on
shelves. Hell, a properly trained monkey with a fancy hat could probably do
that. ...
" I can't imagine the Dewey Decimal System taking more than a day to master.
And what then? How to requisition books and donations from private
institutions without annoying people? That's another day at most. Come on,
what could be the most serious issue facing a librarian? .....
"They could just take one of those mail-in courses, couldn't they? They
could pick up gun repair while they're at it. Now that's a skill. .....
Sony Barari
In his/her 'apology' at
http://www.lisnews.com/article.php3?sid=20020308125444&mode=flat (Post #4)
he tries to make out that it was comic piece and that he/she "actually did
take the time to research the profession, and understand that it is indeed a
valuable institution to our society" yet the opening para of the article
states "Now, without bothering to actually research the program ..."
This person is a fourth-year molecular, cell and developmental biology
student - would it be defamatory to suggest that some of his/her molecules
and cells need to be developed????
Quite a few of us have already taken him/her to task but I hope that
someone who works at the university shows his opinion to his campus
librarian and he/she really gives him a bit of "service" by telling him to
serve himself .... because in the meantime he/she is probably having a great
laugh at the hornets nest he/she has provoked. Let him/her get stung ...
Kia ora
Barbara
Barbara Braxton
Teacher Librarian
Palmerston District Primary School
PALMERSTON ACT 2913
AUSTRALIA
T. 02 6205 7241
F. 02 6205 7242
E. barbara@austarmetro.com.au
W. http://www.palmdps.act.edu.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Morganza Byrd [mailto:morganza@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, 9 March 2002 1:20 PM
To: barbara@AUSTARMETRO.COM.AU
Subject: Re: UCLA Article
I just read your post and am confused. I think I must have missed the
article that you refer to, could you send me a copy or tell me where I can
find it. It is disconcerting to think that someone from the state in which
I live would be writing what I think they are writing.
Thank you.
Morganza Byrd, Librarian
West Valley High School
Hemet, CA
morganza@hotmail.com
>From: Barbara Braxton <barbara@AUSTARMETRO.COM.AU>
>Reply-To: Barbara Braxton <barbara@AUSTARMETRO.COM.AU>
>To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>Subject: UCLA Article
>Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 10:50:24 +1100
>
>Hi folks.
>I know I have probably played right into that writer's hands by taking any
>notice of him but in light of threads of advocacy on lists around the world
>(again!) he just got under my skin - and I could not make head nor tail of
>his 'apology'. So this is what I posted .......
>
>"Whether you (and the subsequent writer, Ben) intended to offend or not,
>you
>have, and because the library profession is so information and
>technologically literate, your article and 'apology' have got right around
>the globe, even down here to Canberra, the national capital of Australia.
>
>Perhaps you need to be reminded of who it was at your schools (primary and
>secondary) who collected and provided the resources so your teachers could
>maximise their delivery of the curriculum; who taught you to be able to do
>the research you need to do now so efficiently and effectively, and who, if
>you asked them, would point you to the 400s where you could find a
>dictionary to determine the meaning of "science".
>
>In Australia, and almost anywhere in the world, most librarians, especially
>those in educational institutions have two degrees- one in education and
>the
>other, librarianship, and these are usually at the Masters level. Many
>have
>doctorates.
>
>That is such a huge investment of personal time and money and energy that
>something tells me there must be more to what we do that shelving books!
>Remember the definition of an iceberg? You only see the top 5%?
>
>I do hope the librarians at your college do not see your article, because
>it
>would not surprise me if you found out very quickly the variety and depth
>of
>the services we offer, simply because you can no longer access them!"
>
>It is clowns like this who write this garbage and whose 'humour' is so
>buried that no one sees it that continue to make it so hard for us to
>have/get the staff, time and dollars to do our job well that I have
>decided
>I am going to rebut their remarks wherever I can. Holy smoke, one of these
>days, the powers-that-be will see that we do not put in the effort just for
>ourselves. I'm not pocketing the resource budget for a holiday in the
>Bahamas! As a 50 year old, I have a vested interest in making sure that
>when I am an pensioner, those in government are educated enough to be able
>to make informed decisions about my welfare.
>
>And now I shall get off my soapbox and go and take even older mothers and
>mothers-in-law to the Botanic Gardens for morning tea.
>
>Kia ora
>Barbara
>
>Barbara Braxton
>Teacher Librarian
>Palmerston District Primary School
>PALMERSTON ACT 2913
>AUSTRALIA
>
>T. 02 6205 7241
>F. 02 6205 7242
>E. barbara@austarmetro.com.au
>W. http://www.palmdps.act.edu.au
>
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