Comments on: Sunday Speculation: The Case for Retirement http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/ the neverending reference interview of life Fri, 17 May 2013 00:38:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Can we stop arguing about age? at Attempting Elegance http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3627 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:35:47 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3627 [...] blogger, and professional flinger of discussions at fans, blew up the internet a few weeks ago by posing a question explicitly “for the sake of a lively discussion”.  He posited that the elder [...]

]]> By: Norm http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3494 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:34:46 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3494 Well now you can make that two people. I have wanted to be a librarian since I was six years old and life got in the way. I have worked in a library ever since the 6th grade and I received my masters when I was 40. But I never thought of it as the path of least resistance. I thought of it as finally getting to do my dream job helping PEOPLE find information (and sometimes books) that they need or want or maybe even never thought they would like. I work hard trying to make my library an essential part of the community but I keep getting told that “Oh we have a little library in my retirement community so I don’t need your services.” That is a major part of why I am looking for another job in a place where that attitude is not the prevailing one. We have no connection to the local government other than our tax money which they feel free to move around as they please because most of the local government people live in over 55 communities with a little donated library and they don’t see the need for degree-ed librarians when their little volunteer people do just fine for them. Sorry for the rant – that is a subject for another post.

]]> By: GUEST POST #25: “How and When did you Adapt to the Computer Revolution? by Vicki Harden « Will Unwound http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3418 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:36:29 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3418 [...] have to write this. I read Will’s blog (The War Between the Library Generations Has Started) and Andy’s original blog.  Then I read Joe’s comment about the history of the [...]

]]> By: How to Dissuade « Closed Stacks http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3413 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:05:52 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3413 [...] has been on my mind since reading Andy Woodworth’s ill-fated but provocative Sunday Speculation this week.  I’m not talking about retirement though, I’m thinking about how to stop [...]

]]> By: WILL UNWOUND #365: “Fantasy Friday at the Unwinders Tavern – Retirement Reveries” « Will Unwound http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3384 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:50:15 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3384 [...] wrap up our rap about retirement.  It all started with Andy Woodworth’s lightning rod blog about The Case for Retirement.  Then it moved into a discussion about whether or not Retirement is un-American.  And finally it [...]

]]> By: WILL UNWOUND #363: “Rant Wednesday at the Unwinders Tavern – Is it unAmerican to Retire?” « Will Unwound http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3327 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:37:21 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3327 [...] all started with Andy Woodworth’s lightening rod post on The Case for Retirement.  Andy got me thinking about whether retirement is looked at less favorably in America than in [...]

]]> By: Let’s discuss important things. | Slinkster-Blog http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3324 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:38:01 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3324 [...] Much bigger minds than mine have tackled the subject of employment in libraryland, but it is on the forefront of my mind as I work on the last six credits of my Master’s degree. [...]

]]> By: Amy http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3316 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:50:19 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3316 “Shouldn’t there be some accountability from library leadership in general on this neglect? Why would the profession continue under people who have failed in such a spectacular manner?”

YES! Absolutely agree. We should NOT become Barnes and Noble but even Ranganathan preached that libraries are a living growing organism– and to me, that means those that work within must also be flexible and willing to grow and change. So why not some of those people who are burned out….why don’t they become entrepreneurial?

Oh right, because of health care….hard to be an entrepreneur when you can’t easily go buy affordable health care.

Never mind……status quo

]]> By: The Right Stuff « Agnostic, Maybe http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3311 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:40:27 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3311 [...] what happened to the political and financial relationships between libraries and their communities. Stephen Abrams wrote: The simplest answer is that those people and the people/politicians they built the [...]

]]> By: The Right Stuff « Agnostic, Maybe http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3310 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:40:10 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sunday-speculation-the-case-for-retirement/#comment-3310 [...] my sloppy handling on the Sunday Speculation post, I did receive one answer to the underlying question as to what happened to the political and [...]

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