Tuesday 30 June 2015

Is a rant the right kind of introduction?



I'm not sure if starting with a rant is the right way to go about this, but here goes!


I'm a librarian, not that you'd know it from my job title, but I have a BA, an MSc and I'm a chartered member of CILIP.  Not many people realise that you actually need qualifications to become a librarian and sadly recently not many employers tend to value those qualifications.  As a profession we haven't been very good at shouting about the importance of what we do and it's something I personally feel I have to get better at.


My bugbear of the moment and the reason for the title of this blog is the many variations of the phrase:


"Libraries are about more than just books!"



Yes, libraries are so much more and I'll return to that in later posts but woe betide the next person who combines the words just+books in front of me!