Monday, March 01, 2010
Reading, Professional
Many library organizational memberships come with complimentary subscriptions to professional library magazines or journals. Pile these publications in a prominent place in your office to give the appearance of being a well-read, up-to-date librarian. By the time you retire, you will have enough issues to build a fortified wall around your desk to protect you from the kind of librarians who actually read those things.
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Especially those who use their holidays to attend library conferences. No. Life.
Now I know the use for the paper journals, but what about all the forwarded emails, lists, and RSS feeds clogging my computer? There must be some use for them, too!
Most professional journals in the library field have an editorial style that is a sorry hybrid of college term paper and high school newspaper: awkwardly constructed sentences punctuated with odd bursts of enthusiasm. I yearn for better writing on useful topics. Instead I get yet another article on somebody's clever idea to offer video games at the library.
"Most professional journals in the library field have an editorial style that is a sorry hybrid of college term paper and high school newspaper: awkwardly constructed sentences punctuated with odd bursts of enthusiasm."
Which, alas, suggests that said writers of articles are still emotionally and intellectually stuck at the awkward age of 17.
I have mostly been paying the outrageous dues in order to be able to list something in the "professional memberships" section of my resume.
So, now that I've snagged my "dream job," can I quit the professional associations and quit receiving their paper publications tha tI don't read?
Anon @ 2:56 PM
-No, now that you have the dream job, you get the job to pay for the expensive membership and use it as evidence of "continuing professional development" for review and raise times. =D
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