[Publib] "audience development officers" or "librarians"

[Marsha Howard]

I just emailed a colleague in a special library in Edinburgh--they work on a
project with the public libraries. She hadn't seen the article and was
pleased that the absurdity of it all was being aired publicly. I certainly
hope we've all read Orwell and remember Newspeak, "the only language in the
world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year." I'm beginning to truly
believe that we're in a profession which is being defined in narrower ways
every year...as Kathleen notes.

Marsha Howard
Poets House
(my views are my own)

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Kathleen Stipek <kstipek at aclib.us> wrote:

>  Anybody but me remember Newspeak?  First you redefine something, then you
> degrade it, then you eliminate it.  This is disgraceful and disgusting, and
> the Edinburgh council should be ashamed of itself for taking such an
> action.  Also, they might want to measure all the information-seeking
> activities in a library and see whether the activity has fallen off quite as
> much as they want it to.
>
>
> Kathleen Stipek
>
> Alachua County Library District
>
> 401 East University Avenue
>
> Gainesville, Florida 32601
>
> 352-334-3931  (fax) 352-334-3948
>
>
>
>     *** --Non, merci.*
>
> *       Cyrano de Bergerac*
>
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> *From:* publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:
> publib-bounces at webjunction.org] *On Behalf Of *Dale McNeill
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:49 AM
> *To:* publib at webjunction.org
> *Subject:* [Publib] "audience development officers" or "librarians"
>
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland/4222623/Librarians-to-be-renamed-audience-development-officers.html
>
> or
>
> *http://tinyurl.com/9857oj*
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