#lis education

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FREE webinar for LIS educators: Curriculum Planning for the LIS Profession https://ift.tt/XhDsGJe

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2 BLIS students graduate as Summa Cum Laude in UP https://ift.tt/Vof7rze

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Philippine Journal of Librarianship and Information Studies (PhJLIS) Issue #4 out now https://ift.tt/32mqZQF

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UPSLIS begins construction of new building https://ift.tt/2GG2h2r

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Philippine Journal of Librarianship and Information Studies (PhJLIS) first issue now online https://ift.tt/2TFtS6y

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LIS Student Journal by UP LISSA https://ift.tt/2MQD9n4

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Tuesday, January 5 – Friday, January 8, 2016 Boston Park Plaza Hotel 50 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116

ALISE is the Association for Library and Information Science Education and the 2016 Conference theme is : “Radical Change: Inclusion and Innovation”  

Consider attending if LIS education is something you are passionate about!

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What is NYPL’s angle?

Man, I don’t understand the way NYPL is marketing the over 90 librarians positions they have opening across the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island (for you non-NYCers: Brooklyn and Queens each have their own library system). 

NYPL’s main social media accounts (Twitters, Instagrams) are aimed at patrons of the library, so they highlight popular books, upcoming events, historical literary dates and such. I’d say they do a pretty good job. 

But now, with these jobs opening, they keep saying things like “Love books? Then have we got the job for you!” and whatever... but, like... that’s not what qualifies you to be a Librarian? You have to have a MLIS to hold the title. “Loving books” isn’t enough, and frankly isn’t the main part of what being a librarian entails. As best I can tell, there’s really very little of the job that actually involves the reading of your favorite books. Maybe if you do a lot of reader’s advisory. But it’s service work at it’s core. Unless you’re a cataloger, which... “loving books” definitely doesn’t qualify you for that kind of work. Maybe, “loving complicated ontologies” or “loving tedious number-checking” (Cataloging is not my thing)

I just don’t get why NYPL is trying to make it look like being a Librarian boils down to just a love of reading. It’s perpetuating librarian stereotypes at one level, and getting false hopes up in unqualified people at another. And just loving to read is not a good reason to go into librarianship, so I think perpetuating that association could bring people who aren’t really into what librarianship really is into the field, and we’d end up with even more disaffected, grumpy public librarians.

Be a librarian if you want! I highly recommend it! It’s a field full of wonderfully smart, diverse, engaged people. But a love of reading isn’t what it’s about.