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Re: Library Science editorial {Eric Luft's remarks}



Eric is quite right about Library science being a set of skills one can pick up on one's own.  Still, I might point out, so is the Law, business, and even History.  The most talented historical researcher I know, for example, has a GED.  He also has spent twenty years learning what he could have been taught in a classroom by a professional historian in a matter of weeks.  The same could be said of any profession...  The point of graduate professional degrees is to shorten the time needed to gain skills, not to imply that they could not be garnered  outside the professional school.

Actually one has a great desire to grab Mr./Ms. Barari and give him/her a couple of hours of serious BI.  No doubt that comes from from my experience of quite a few years of teaching in what I call "Institutions of second resort."  This is almost certainly where he will end up.  But his spirit is strong--one should always give a little more slack to people with the nerve to make total asses of themselves.

John Howard Fowler, BA MA MA PHD MLIS

By the way, UCLA uses LC classification and the Library school has not called itself Library Science for a couple of years--Library Studies was settled upon, largely in order to stress the notion that skills and approaches were being taught.

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