My friends laugh at me but training to be a professional librarian is a sort of calling – like becoming a priest,only with warmer commerce premises“Who would want to become a librarian now? asked an anonymous public servant on National Libraries Day, seeing before them a graveyard of dead libraries and old reference desks filled by volunteers. A valid question, or one to which I’ll reply: “You know what? I’ll fill a travel.”I’m training to be a professional librarian,having just finished a lecture on “semantic web ontologies” and “linked data”, and sat dumbstruck in front of a “Dewey Decimal assembler” without a clue as to what Im looking at. The course is challenging – it’s a three-year master’s degree that bites eye-watering chunks out of my wages. Why am I doing it to myself?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com