Comments on: The Master’s Degree Misperception, Ctd.

By: value of the mlis degree « librarianaut

value of the mlis degree « librarianaut — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 06:15:23 +0000

[...] that post spawned responses, which caused Agnostic Maybe to clarify and sound a bit less like a jerk. But I don’t like the Officers/Enlisted analogy he employs, [...]

By: Lenn Barry

Lenn Barry — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:53:50 +0000

Will all the English and Art appreciation majors in college raise their hands?
Andy must be an Engish major in college before proceeding to Library school to obtain his MLS degree and certification from ALA to practice the hallowed profession of Librarianship?

Andy what say you now?

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:35:24 +0000

I admire the enthusiasm that you bring to your trolling.

By: James Smith

James Smith — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:29:16 +0000

Well, should the resume of Lenn Berry ever cross my desk when I am choosing candidates for interview, I suspect it will easy to make a decision.

Lenn: you do realise that this is a high profile and open blog, and potential employers and colleagues in the library sector can read your immature comments? You are doing a fine job of making yourself unemployable. Consider that before you next make a fool of yourself online.

By: Lenn Barry

Lenn Barry — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:12:58 +0000

I did not expect to be schooled in an English writing lab in this blog.I do blog in sports and politics where average folks don’t care alot about grammatical correctness. Maybe I am not sufficiently schooled to blog around here which seems a bit sophisticated and highly enlightened. What about the substance of our discourse since “me no understand no english?
Now I get it! Now I know where exactly I need to go with my writing skills deficiency, maybe that’s why I am unemployed at this time?
Professor John and Andy where can I upload my Resume for you to “correct/edit” for me?
I need your pro bono help. That could be one giant step forward for mankind!

By: Lenn Barry

Lenn Barry — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:55:29 +0000

Andy,
I think you will and still need more of us with poor command of grammar to remain relevant by keeping you busy correcting us! Don’t you think so? This way, you’re happy and I am ok with it. Big Deal!

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 02:44:26 +0000

I think spelling, grammar, paragraph structure, and punctuation are like the 6th-9th things wrong with your postings, Lenn.

I’d comment more, but quite frankly, based on what you have written and as they say in court, the defense rests.

By: Lenn Barry

Lenn Barry — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:05:30 +0000

John Kirri,
You’re part of the problem and have nothing good in your little elitist brain if you have any.
You little rat cannot pass any opportunity to prove that you know it all. I guess I forgot to do my spell-check or “google it” instead of seeking out the Library Guru to help me out with my grammar!!. Why do I need to since I know that Mr Kirriemuir is ever present to help me out with my poor grammar? If I know how to spell, then there goes the joy of sadistic John K. There goes his inflated sense of importance in the food chain. There goes another opportunity to save mankind from self-destruction by Mr Librarian! Maybe John you can help with editing/updating my Resume since I am out of work! You’ll do it for free anyway. While at it, can you help me find employment because I have just been downsized by the ever-shrinking County Library systems where I worked up to the end of the last fiscal year September 30, 2010.
You jumped right in to correct the happless and helpless paraprofessional to get it right.
There lies the problem with the future of Libraries and smart Librarians like John k when mankind will finally figure out how to “google” out of their problems instead of facing the humiliating and condescending stare of the “know-it-all’ Dewey-JK.
John still doesn’t get it with his swollen-head command of the language and monopoly of information, to demonstrate some humility in his dealing with the lesser folks who come to his shrine of knowledge to get answers and solutions to their worldly problems.
Ok John, proof read this and be happy for a change out of your miserable being!
Go ahead, make my day oh night, and be happy for assisting with my “little” grammar problems.
This blog doesn’t have a spell-check feature embedded.Please help me little Jonny.

By: John Kirriemuir

John Kirriemuir — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:11:25 +0000

Lenn, poppet,

It’s quite probable that to get a decent qualification you need to know basic language, grammar and spelling.

I would be concerned at any paraprofessional entrusted to catalogue, or shelve, a book who didn’t even know the difference between “could care less” and “couldn’t care less”. That’s another book probably lost forever in the system…

Le sigh.

By: Lenn Barry

Lenn Barry — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:02:46 +0000

This is from a former Library Specialist1 paraprofessional who happens to moonshine as an adjunct Instructor.
The MLS or MLIS is not a professional qualification because of the ease of entry by all and sundry.
There’s no barrier to entry by anybody if not the artificial barrier set in motion by the ALA mafia or cartel.
What do Reference Librarians do beside looking up stuff- information online or from the shelf/stacks? I know, Iknow they do other things like “programming and Information Literacy”
Without a barrier to entry, the paraprofessionals will keep encrouching into your professional space. The convergence point is customer service not the title. Library customers want service and they could care less about the ALA demarcations.
How difficult is the job of a librarian anyways apart from occassionally dealing with some customers from hell?
It all boils down to customer service and until we remove the artificial barriers put in place by ALA, customers will be betteroff without that. ” After all, that’s not part of my job description”.