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Thursday, April 26, 2007
Doing My Part for Recruitment

I was having an entertaining conversation with a student the other daywhen he had to bring
up librarianship.

"I didn't even know 'librarian' was a job," he said.

"Yes," I almost replied, "I have trouble believing it myself sometimes."

"But now I've been recommending it to a lot of my friends."

"Really?" Why on earth would he do that?

"Especially my humanities friends who don't know what they'll do after graduation. I tell them
there's this great job for people who like to read and you can sit around and read books and
stuff all day."

Should I disillusion him? Should I let down the ALA by not doing my part to recruit more
dupes into the field? Absolutely not!

"Well, I don't just read books all day," I said. Slight shadow passes over his face. "I also read
news and blogs and surf the Web a lot, and have interesting intellectual conversations with
colleagues. (I had trouble stifling a laugh with that one.) "So go on and encourage your
friends!"

I know the ALA would be proud. Perhaps they should award me a medal.

Posted by AL on 4/26/2007 23 comments
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