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The librarians you know support this because they've been tricked by their managers and society into taking on a tremendous amount of dangerous and stressful wo
by Teever 3y ago
The librarians you know support this because they've been tricked by their managers and society into taking on a tremendous amount of dangerous and stressful work for free.
It isn't reasonable that we expect librarians to do this kind of work, and I would argue that there are elements of doing so that are outright illegal.
- Mezzie 3y agoAlso the ones who don't support this...leave. It's one reason why I won't work in public libraries as someone with an MLIS.
- prawn 3y ago"Master of Library and Information Science", for anyone else who didn't know.
- zdragnar 3y agoThis field draws on a lot of the same people who are drawn to social work. They know they're not going to make big money doing it, but they're going to get into it anyway because taking on the profession is a virtuous thing to do. There's a degree of willing self sacrifice, especially since (like other similar fields, such as museum curation) it practically takes someone dying for a position to open up. Given all of this, these librarians aren't being tricked by anyone. It's just one more moral, virtuous thing to do for the community, despite not having the training or support to handle anything but the easy cases.