Muriel Efron wrote:
> "I received some
>critical replies stating that I was wrong, that the experience of
>working in a library can make you a librarian. I still disagree with
>that. One can know a lot and be able to give excellent assistance,
>but without the professional credentials (e.g. the graduate
>degree) <snip> such a person should not be called a
>"librarian." To do so makes the degree meaningless.
>This is not to take away the expertise of someone with much
>experience--but to answer the original question of what constitutes
>"professional experience" it is the work experience you describe
>as performed by a person with an MLS or equivalent degree."
End quote.
I believe an MLS constitues "educational experience" not "professional experience".
Are you saying that if two people are doing identical work, the MLS is getting
"professional experience" while the non-MLS is not? In the job postings I have run
across, most places ask for a certain level of educational experience, and a certain level
of work experience. What exactly would you label someone who has been the head of a
library for 10 years but does not have an MLS? And because they do not have an MLS,
do you believe that they are not qualified to hold a "Librarian" position? Or are we all just
arguing about semantics and what labels we attach to each other.
Patrick Burress
Assistant Librarian
Non-MLS
American Insurance Association
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