Comments on: It’s All About…?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 09 May 2006 17:10:00 +0000

and one other thing: i am a professional librarian because i have the education, training, job description and the pay necessary to make me a professional librarian. it has nothing to do with how many conferences i’ve attended or how many articles or books i’ve gotten published. not everybody has the time or inclination for publishing or networking; therefore, it is not an accurate measure of who–or what–is or is not professional.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 May 2006 15:31:00 +0000

well, dennie, you’re absolutely wrong. sorry.

but don’t get me wrong; i’m not saying there is anything wrong with shameless self promotion. but let’s just admit it freely and not beat around some semantic bush of bullshit.

By: Dennie

Dennie — Mon, 08 May 2006 12:08:00 +0000

Regarding the last post of anonymous, who claims that lisjobs.com is self promotion: it this were truly about shameless self promotion, it would have BIG picture of Rachel and lots more pointers to Rachel herself.

Sure, Rachel’s resume and services can be found but I would not consider this a shameless self promotion website at all.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:11:00 +0000

and i almost forgot–but how could i–that your lisjobs.com site is pretty much the definition of shameless self promotion. may not have started out that way, but that’s certainly how it is.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:01:00 +0000

There are self-promoters and ambitious poster children in every profession. In general, they don’t truly effect the profession or its true professionals.

Library Journal, aside from its book reviews, is basically the People Magazine or Men’s Health of the profession. Occasionally, I’ll find something of real value there. More often than not, however, it’s more about entertainment. Nothing wrong with that, so long as you know what you’re reading.

By: sumyunglibrarian

sumyunglibrarian — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:07:00 +0000

I’m sorry, was that self promotion?

By: Bob Watson

Bob Watson — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:26:00 +0000

I quite agree, Rachel.

There’s a “Shameless Self Promotion” topic at WebJunction (http://www.webjunction.org) that hardly anyone posts in.

Which is a shame in itself.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:42:00 +0000

I once inherited a library project where the rather generous grant funding for the previous year had stated in its narrative that no funding for publicity was required as everyone already knew about the service. Naturally, that was far from the case, but the grant tied my hands from doing any real advocacy.

By: Bill Drew

Bill Drew — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:29:00 +0000

I agree entirely with you about self promotion. It is not a dirty word. I have been accused of it in the past with the work I have done on wireless technology in libraries and earlier work I did on internet resources in agriculture. I am proud of what Ihave done and feel no shame in laying claim to good work.

Many librarians out there need to be less humble and need to come forward and let others know what they are doing. What you are doing will inspire others to do more.