http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2004/11/24/the-great-librarian-shortage-debate/ A librarian, writer and educator reflecting on the profession and the tools we use to serve our patrons Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2004/11/24/the-great-librarian-shortage-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-31306 Information Wants To Be Free » Blog Archive » My year in blog Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:09:23 +0000 /?p=15#comment-31306 [...] November 2004 Number of Posts: 27 Words written: 8,786 Favorite Post: The great librarian shortage debate Important Event: Starting my blog, of course! [...] [...] November 2004 Number of Posts: 27 Words written: 8,786 Favorite Post: The great librarian shortage debate Important Event: Starting my blog, of course! [...]

]]> http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2004/11/24/the-great-librarian-shortage-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-15786 Robert Hawkins Sat, 16 Jul 2005 22:12:52 +0000 /?p=15#comment-15786 I am a librarian since 1986, and I am paying the price for not being proactive with my career since the '90's, here in Prince George's County Maryland we are hiring, but the cost of living and the mid-30's salery of a library 1 make it difficult. Further, we are an extremely Afro-American community (I am white), and all the little librarians would probably be scared of being "raped by one of the 'brothers.'" Actually, Washington DC is not a great place to live in my opinion, since there is simply an worn-out gay community here, if you are gay like me. I feel stuck here due to the lack of available jobs elsewhere. Face it we are becoming an ignorent, non-reading population that does not support libraries, even children's programming will go down, as the little brats we are raising simply want to be entertained in a quick moving, sensation serving way. All of the little narrow-minded, "soccur-mommy" librarians make it hard for me who am committed to the education of people. They do their little regular job, and go home to hubby, and are threatened by any change, others afraid of losing the job amid this shortage of jobs become so afraid of the board they stagnate. Most women can go home to hubby and his medical benefits, I have to provide for my self all that a duel income family gets, (and I live in a dingy one-room apartment), and libraries discrimnate against me because they assume the I am a married man during interviews that is going to bring a wife and pack of kids on to their medical plan. Better to hire the local, genteel wife of a doctor and he can take care of her. I suspect that someone out there will be "offended." Well you are the type of librarian who is probably agonizing over "Harry Potter," because you small minded evangelical minister encourage you to get it off the shelf, and the "Advocate" too I suspect. I am a librarian since 1986, and I am paying the price for not being proactive with my career since the ’90′s, here in Prince George’s County Maryland we are hiring, but the cost of living and the mid-30′s salery of a library 1 make it difficult. Further, we are an extremely Afro-American community (I am white), and all the little librarians would probably be scared of being “raped by one of the ‘brothers.’” Actually, Washington DC is not a great place to live in my opinion, since there is simply an worn-out gay community here, if you are gay like me. I feel stuck here due to the lack of available jobs elsewhere. Face it we are becoming an ignorent, non-reading population that does not support libraries, even children’s programming will go down, as the little brats we are raising simply want to be entertained in a quick moving, sensation serving way. All of the little narrow-minded, “soccur-mommy” librarians make it hard for me who am committed to the education of people. They do their little regular job, and go home to hubby, and are threatened by any change, others afraid of losing the job amid this shortage of jobs become so afraid of the board they stagnate. Most women can go home to hubby and his medical benefits, I have to provide for my self all that a duel income family gets, (and I live in a dingy one-room apartment), and libraries discrimnate against me because they assume the I am a married man during interviews that is going to bring a wife and pack of kids on to their medical plan. Better to hire the local, genteel wife of a doctor and he can take care of her. I suspect that someone out there will be “offended.” Well you are the type of librarian who is probably agonizing over “Harry Potter,” because you small minded evangelical minister encourage you to get it off the shelf, and the “Advocate” too I suspect.

]]> http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2004/11/24/the-great-librarian-shortage-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Ray Fri, 26 Nov 2004 20:23:50 +0000 /?p=15#comment-2 I, too, am a new librarian and have been feeling extremely discouraged by both the lack of response to my applications as well as the lack of positions available that I would be qualified for. It really seems bleak! I, too, am a new librarian and have been feeling extremely
discouraged by both the lack of response to my applications as
well as the lack of positions available that I would be
qualified for. It really seems bleak!

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