Can Information Professionals Afford Apprenticeships?

摘要

I have a gift for picking despised professional niches. I used to run institutional repositories, and if there's a niche in academic librarianship more despised than that, I'm honestly not sure what it might be. From the frying pan into the fire-now I teach library school. If nothing else, I've greatly expanded the universe of librarians and archivists who despise my work! Critiques of library school, even fairly savage ones, are nothing new; they're an ordinary occupational hazard. (I used to write them myself, back in the day.) What's more, critiques often come from the best, the brightest, and the most employable, those whose skill sets pre-MLS overlap most with what many libraries need: the Ph.D.'s, expert programmers and sysadmins, and experienced administrators.