I had brunch with some tenured Enligsh professors today, somehow we got to talking about whether or not librarians should be considered faculty (in an academic/college library).
Their feeling was that, if there is no library degree being offered, they are not really teaching. They didn't consider the brief classroom instruction performed by the librarians to be sufficient. They said they have no problem with librarians being entitled to equal pay/tenure typed stuff, but that the title of faculty was not appropriate for the profession.
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Wow! That is exactly the attitude I am noticing towards this profession. When I was catching up with an old friend and mentioned that I was in grad school, he asked what for. When I told him Library and Info Science, he was surprised and said that he didn't know there was a degree for that. It's frustrating...this does require more skill than working at Walmart!
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