Date: 2006-04-25 04:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] in-parentheses.livejournal.com
I know this is an old thread, but there was a toss-off line in an article in this month's School Library Journal that I had to comment on. The article was "WV Scool Librarians May Get the Ax." (Isn't "axe" spelled with an "e"?) Apparently the superintendent of one district in WV wants to replace all librarians with parent volunteers, because "nearly all classrooms have computers where students can go online and get access to more resources than our library has." And besides, according to No Child Left Educated, librarians are support staff, so who cares, right?

Sorry, got distracted by being pissed off. Anyway, a sentence begins, "While the American Library Association doesn't keep statistics on library positions lost..." They DON'T?? What the hell do we pay them for, then? They're perfectly happy to invent statistics about the coming "librarian shortage," but they can't bother to keep track of positions lost? How on earth do they expect to advocate for retaining those positions if they don't even have data? AAAARRRGGHH! Our professional organization blows.
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