The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work at a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface betwe

The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work at a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user. It's really refreshing to read this -- my wife is a librarian, and when she tells people that she has a Masters degree in library science, people will literally scoff and say things like "why do you need a Masters degree for that?" As a whole, it's a disrespected profession, not just because people look down it, but because most people think it's irrelevant. (At least teachers, who are shit on even more than librarians, are relevant in everyone's eyes.) And to teach them how to use a soldering iron or take apart something with no user servicable parts inside. He lost me here, is he really suggesting that modern libraries need to become vocational training centers?