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[jeffinated]

Librarian

So I'm a librarian, or rather, I have a degree in library science, and I work in a library, though I do not currently have the position of librarian.  I don't know if it's like a doctor or a lawyer where you can all yourself it just because you have the degree, but I generally do it to save on confusion.

Anyways, nobody I've met outside of library school has ever understood why a librarian would need a grad degree.

"to memorize the dewey decimal system? hurhur."

I'm of two minds on this.  On the one hand, I learned a fair amount in library school (I wish there were a better term for it.)  I know a lot of techniques for helping people, and about proper research methods there, as well as all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes at a library.

But at the same time, very little a librarian does is that hard to learn.  A library technician or assistant librarian is just as qualified to do 99% of what a librarian does, especially with modern information technology.  Managing a library seems like a business or nonprofit management degree would be more useful.

The main key that makes me think librarian is still worthwhile as a profession is the ethics behind it.  The idea that knowledge is free, that privacy is important, and that reading is fun.  Libraries need to remain as bastions of free information, and librarians need to truly believe that is important.  Libraries are societal equalizers.

And anyways, Library of Congress is a better system, even if it is still badly flawed.  (For a diatribe on Dewey vs. LOC oh man don't even get me started.)