School Daze

[chargirlgenius]

People keep asking how school is going, and I usually say, "it's school, you know." There's an element of that, as it sure is nice to be on break for the next week and not worry about homework or studying. But really, it's going great. I'm figuring out the quirks of my instructors, and even when they piss me off, it's a good, active type of pissing

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[shalandara]

As a holder of an MLS degree I wouldn't exactly counsel most people to go willy-nilly into it. But that is true for ANY degre program.

I heard the show (as a podcast, later). I found it to be a little misleading. It was supposed to be just about Public Libraries and outsourcing them, but the guests and host did not do a good job (in my mind) of distinguishing between outsourcing andprivatizing and contracts AND the differences in regards to other types of Libraries.

There has been types of outsourcing in Libraries for a long time. The mass-produced cards from vendors to save the libraries time from making cards for the catalog is just one example. I worked on a specialized contract last year for a govt agency. It was a conversion project (always a good example of something that is outsourced). But privatizing is a different thing. And it took a good long time for the conversation to come around to the fact that they only way a private company can save a munipality money, and make a profit themselves, is to do it by cutting personnel costs.

I do not work in a public library. Nor do I particularly want to. But then again, I am a cataloger, not a reference librarian, and that is a whole other different kettle of fish.