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

[Michael May]

This is nothing new, of course:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvil_Dewey#English_language_spelling_reform

Mike in Dubuque


From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Marsha Howard
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:37 AM
To: Kathleen Stipek
Cc: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Publib] "audience development officers" or "librarians"

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<mailto: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> [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org<mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org>] On Behalf Of Dale McNeill
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:49 AM
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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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