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Thanks! Re: Library Science editorial



Thank you, Mr. Johnson.  Also, I don't see what being thick skinned has in common with belittling our education and training.  I worked darn hard for my MLS; and I have friends who are "scientists" who say that they could never work in reference/public service.  What is easy for one is not always easy for the other!

Katy

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From:         "Russell A. Johnson" <rjohnson@LIBRARY.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To:     "Russell A. Johnson" <rjohnson@LIBRARY.UCLA.EDU>
Date:         Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:27:37 -0800

>Actually, there are more than 2000 subscribers to the listserv with
>equally thick skins, who feel/felt no need to engage in the daily
>ARCHIVES list brouhaha.  Many of us librarians and archivists at UCLA
>took the _Daily Bruin_ article as a bit of satirical goofiness,
>realizing that undergrads are approaching Winter Quarter final exams
>(which begin a week from now) and let off steam in various ways. This
>is apparent from the writer's first sentence; no Molecular, Cell and
>Developmental Bio student gets to the 4th year with a string of D's; and
>the second one, talking about comic potential.  Barari is probably
>studying in the stacks of the Biomed library even as I write this; and
>is welcome to come and use our History & Special Collections anytime.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Russell Johnson
>
>
>On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:58:02 -0500 "Eric v.d. Luft, Ph.D., M.L.S."
><lufte@MAIL.UPSTATE.EDU> wrote:
>
>> Are Susan M. Anderson, Conan Cerretani, and I the only people on this
>> list with skins thick enough to endure a wet-behind-the-ears ignoramus
>> accidentally stumbling upon the truth about the pretentious formal
>> educational requirements of our profession?
>>
>> We enjoy our jobs, we do them well, and that's all that really matters.
>>
>> Lighten up!
>>
>> Eric v.d. Luft, Ph.D., M.L.S.
>> Curator of Historical Collections, Health Sciences Library
>> SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210
>> <http://web.upstate.edu/lufte/> -- 315-464-4585
>> Listowner: ALHHS-L <http://web.upstate.edu/lufte/alhhs-l.html>
>> For e-mail pertaining to libraries, librarianship, or the history of
>>  medicine, please use <lufte@mail.upstate.edu> not <lufte@upstate.edu>
>> For all other e-mail, please use <gegensatz@alumni.bowdoin.edu>
>>
>> "Be always sure you're right, then go ahead."
>>                                           -- Davy Crockett
>>                                 [Autobiography, 1834, title page]
>
>
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Katy Smith
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St. Louis County Library
1640 Lindbergh Blvd.
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