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[celuran]

So obviously most of the time I make a pretty good stereotype: I'm a librarian who knits! also I'm single & live with a cat! but today, while laying on the couch, wearing a red dress, reading romance novels* and eating fancy chocolates i started to wonder:
what's the difference between a stereotype & a cliche?

*clare brings home the mills & boons

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[toley_elf]

being a cliche sounds hellafun ;)

btw i have a friend who is thinking of being a librarian. do you have any advice for her other than 'don't it's hard to find a job/'

well actually...

[celuran]

look, there's not heaps of jobs (but if it helps, there are a lot of fairly elderly librarians who are due to retire soon!). Most of my friends have gotten jobs within, say, four months?

It's a lot more customer service than the cliche suggests; it's not a career for the antisocial.

Is your friend in Melbourne, and if so, would xie rather study online or in person? I have a hard time recommending RMIT University's Graduate Diploma Information Management; the good lecturers have moved on, and I didn't find studying under the people who are left particularly worthwhile. Monash have the only other course in Melbourne; apparently it's fairly database heavy, but a decent course. If distance learning is an option (or your friend is in Perth) I hear good things about Curtain University.

If your friend is interested in being a teacher librarian, get the teaching qualification first, and then the librarianship after. There's a lot more opportunity that way.

Here are some possibly useful links: ALIA is the professional association for

Re: well actually...

[celuran]

Hey no, I'm not a teacher librarian. You need to have a working with children card, sure, but you need that for public libraries too, and your workplace should pay for it. legally i don't actually supervise the students (although I am sometimes the only adult in a room, they are being supervised by the coordinator, who is in the same building if not the same room). If you're a teacher, you get paid more, but you also have to do yard duty

[lisanaterel]

Ha, that book looks terrible. Also, amusing.

[celuran]

you should come over for dinner and also terrible prose sometime!

[lisanaterel]

That sounds lovely!

[celuran]

whenever you'd like! except mondays, this term. i am learning dutch then.
(we could even have roast beast)

[derigueur]

Yay!

I used to assail unsuspecting guests with passages from the original Monstrous Manual for Dungeons & Dragons, thus probably making me a gamer stereotype.

My favourite passage was "Lambs are non-combatant"

[celuran]

actually lately clare has been watching hoarders and quoting the good bits. By "good bits" i mean, of course,
"We can get rid of the faecal matter - and she's not sentimentally attached to that, she doesn't feel like she needs to keep it."

however i am glad to know lambs are non-combatant. i mean it's not like they have any defenses or weapons so it'd be rude to start a war with them.

[derigueur]

O.o

I helped a compulsive hoarder move house once. It was a unique experience I hope never to have again. How does someone get to the point where they're keeping four large boxes of mouldy, cat-urine soaked homemaker mags in case someone, someday, wants them for the recipes? Yeesh! But no, you can't throw them out because a) there will be tears and b) somewhere in the bottom of that box might be something actually valuable, like a gold and pearl necklace! (I jest not: I unpacked one box to prove the contents worthless and discovered said necklace wedged in amongst the crusty dregs...you can't win with these people!)

I now wish to declare war on Lambs, just to see what they will do in response :P

[dcrisp]

My response to this kind of moving is : I am a mover, I'm here to help you move because you cant do it on your own. you asked me. If we continue I'm in charge of moving. Moves have gone successfull. Valuable stuff has been moved and junk has been binned.

Mind you, I never moved hoarder. just a regular every day book worm.