Comments on: The Pact http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=396 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:31:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kerry http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=396&cpage=1#comment-5453 Kerry Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:00:08 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=396#comment-5453 This is an excellent idea as the libraries seem to need a lot of demoralized, self-doubting applicants and workers to survive. It's why I'm glad I'm no longer in the field. There's two default assumptions preached to the jobseekers--1) if they can't find a library job, they're doing something wrong as opposed to there being any market forces not under direct control and 2) at any point in their job hunt they will give offense to the hiring library, who will then spread news of their faux pas throughout the tiny library community, and dooming the poor seeker to a lifetime of sending out applications without response. It's worse than reading fashion magazines. And that the it's part of the reason why I think that librarianship is a sexist profession. This is an excellent idea as the libraries seem to need a lot of demoralized, self-doubting applicants and workers to survive. It’s why I’m glad I’m no longer in the field. There’s two default assumptions preached to the jobseekers–1) if they can’t find a library job, they’re doing something wrong as opposed to there being any market forces not under direct control and 2) at any point in their job hunt they will give offense to the hiring library, who will then spread news of their faux pas throughout the tiny library community, and dooming the poor seeker to a lifetime of sending out applications without response.

It’s worse than reading fashion magazines.

And that the it’s part of the reason why I think that librarianship is a sexist profession.

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