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Saturday, June 01, 2002 |
- Hurrah for Underpaid Drudges
"Silly piece on a recently misfiring alexa over at NTKnow is prefaced by 'The transformation of librarians as underpaid drudges - preserving the infosphere while straightfacedly answering the sniggering requests of impertinent schoolboys - into the heroes of the digital age is near complete.' Apparently we're borrowing the revolution, sending it downstairs for the preservation dept to fix the binding and tape some pages back together, and then back up through cataloging so the subject headings can get updated, then reshelving it so you can steal it back yet again." [/usr/lib/info]
- Today Professions Vote 2002
"Dave Parkes writes 'The results of the recent UK BBC Radio 4 poll on respected/disrespected professions. Librarians came in a respectable 14th out of 92.' " [LIS News]
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