Thursday, June 04, 2009

MLS: Hire Ground?

Oh, man. Terrible pun and methodology aside, let's get down to the meanings and trends hinted at in this article:

We value the MLS! No, really we do! Okay, we're hiring more and more paraprofessionals, and don't really think any of the tasks of librarianship need to be done by people with a MLS. Except for selection. But you only need a few people to do that. But we need professional librarians to do the big things that bring a community together like programming and imparting knowledge to little kids and to lead! Except we hire people without a MLS for all that because they have, you know, actual skills and training at such.

Sigh.

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