[Publib] Certification of Librarians

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In a message dated 1/22/2009 3:46:41 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
suekamm at mindspring.com writes:

The issue that could  arise is what clout certification would have.  
Certification would work  if employers required job candidates to have that 
credential, and/or pay  tuition costs for people who want to earn the crtificate.   


One of the objects of certification is exclusion.  Professions  exclude.  
They exclude not only bad practitioners, but those who are merely  average.  Is 
that too tough for the library?  Apparently so.  I  would say that any 
certification should take in perhaps the upper half at  best.  And that would be true 
no matter how much skill the base contained  overall.  Librarianship should be 
something that you can fail at.  Why  not?  Any other worthwhile activity, 
governed by its own participants, does  the same.  It should be tough to get in, 
tough to stay, tough to  advance.  Don't like that?  Enjoy the current levels 
of pay.
 
M. 
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