A fact of life is that the entire library marketplace just isn't
all that big. The ALA summer conference, the biggest annual event
in the North American library world, attracts about 20,000 people.
The 20th annual Dragon*Con (fantasy/SF convention) is taking place
in Atlanta this weekend, with an expected draw of 30,000 people.
Most of the front page of today's Sunday paper is devoted to
football coverage; the sports sections occupy 48 pages, while the
entire Arts & Books section is 10 pages, of which 2 and a half are
devoted to books.
We who work in libraries can be passionate about what we do, but
the fact is that what we do just isn't valued that much in our
contemporary culture. Overall, I would say that pay is commensurate
with the value placed by society on what we do.
Selden Deemer, Library Systems Administrator
Emory University Libraries
Atlanta, Georgia
EMAIL: libssd_at_emory.edu
PHONE: 404-727-0271
FAX: 404-727-0827
On Sep 1, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> "If libraries paid their tech people better, they'd get better ones
> to start with, and retain the good ones longer."
Received on Sun Sep 02 2007 - 09:37:11 EDT