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Re: A rose by any other name? I don't think so!
Interestingly, my supervisor (who is a librarian by training but is now in a
management position) recently made the comment that an archivist's work (at
least that of an in-house archivist who is also responsible for records
managment policy) is much more complex than a librarian's....
Clive Smith
The World Bank
From: "Hamson, Susan" <susanh@CHEMHERITAGE.ORG>
Reply-To: "Hamson, Susan" <susanh@CHEMHERITAGE.ORG>
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: A rose by any other name? I don't think so!
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:57:42 -0400
Hi all.
I thought I'd toss this one out to you since we've been without a
discussion
thread for a bit and since I'm completely peeved at the moment.
I had an experience yesterday when someone--uninformed about libraries and
archives--asked me if archivists were a subset of librarians. As I
answered, "No, they are different." I was countered by two librarians who
chimed in and offered, "No, they're essentially the same thing." As we
were
in a meeting, I was unable to call these individuals on the comment, but .
.
.
My question for my fellow archivists out there is this: Do you see
yourself
distinct from librarians? And (I'm certainly assuming so) how would you
counter that comment?
Susan
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Susan Hamson
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Othmer Library of Chemical History
Chemical Heritage Foundation
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