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Re: Skirting the dreaded...



Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer wrote:

> If you think "Archivist" gets a "huh?", try "Special Collections Librarian/Archivist"!  That get two "huh?"s!  I finally told my mother to forget about "special collections librarian" and say "rare books librarian" which doesn't cover the whole job, but at least her friends understand it. Some of them even understand "archivist."

Yep! It's all true. And what's worse, just try explaining to a mortgage loan officer that you can
afford a house doing all that "huh?" for a living.

Cheers!

Eric

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