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[jadesfire]

The following is an acutal extract from the abstract of an article with the innocuous name "A window of opportunity: libraries in higher eduction."

"The lecture and online transmission of rapidly outdated content will continue to give way to a focus on the qualities required by students for employability and lifelong learning. Heavier and more diverse workloads on university teachers will encourage the disaggregation of their teaching. This will provide a window of opportunity for academic librarians to demonstrate their educational partnership role. They should contribute proactively to that disaggregation and, as a key accountability, to the development of information literate students."

I think someone swallowed a management-speak dictionary...

Comments

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Well, everyone knows that all librarians do is sit around stamping books all day. Someone probably thought it would make a nice change for us...

[aoife-8.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I'm detecting just a *smidgin* of sarcasm here. I take it the stamping of books is a sore subject?!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I think I just always feel I'm letting the side down when I have to actually do it. I mean, I have to have an MA to be a qualified librarian - they're not checking on our stamping abilities! It's like the geography students get wound up for colouring things in and the chemistry students for blowing things up (and the history students for never doing any work, but that one's true ;))

I really, really object to readers treating me like an idiot. It's not so bad from the faculty members - they treat everyone like idiots - but when it's a first year undergraduate, I do feel like saying "Not only have I already done your degree, I've got an MA as well. And I've been doing this for three years. And I'm the only one who knows where your books are. BE NICE TO ME!!" [/rant] ;)

[aoife-8.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I appear to have pushed a button ;). *hands over chocolate by way of apology* You clearly need a minion to do your book stamping for you. You could always advertise for a nice, clean-cut young work experience person. There are probably many people out there who would *love* to come stamp your books (sorry, that came out sounding unintentionally filthy.)

As for those first year undergrads - set your evil!inner-librarian free! Get them lost in the stacks! Squash them in those rolling bookshelf thingies! Direct them to the wrong books! Cancel their library cards! That'll teach them...

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Chocolate! *munches* ;) I don't mind stamping books, it's just that there's a bit more to it than that...

Oh, and don't worry, we more than get our revenge. It's a round library and all the floors look the same. Wonderful for getting lost in. :)

[xwingace]

chemistry students for blowing things up

We get to blow things up? Nobody told me!
Damn, what did I just go through all those years of Uni education for?

XWA