Congratulations to Library Journal’s 2009 Movers and Shakers. I am proud to say that a couple of this year’s winners are friends of mine and I admire and respect them and am incredibly proud of them for their accomplishments. Y’all totally rawk!
March 16, 2009
Library Journal’s 2009 Movers & Shakers
Posted by Daenel T under Awards | Tags: 2009 Movers and Shakers, Information Professionals, Kudos, Librarians, Library Journal |[5] Comments
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March 16, 2009 at 3:03 PM
I was very surprised to find not a single special collections librarian, genealogy librarian, local history librarian, or archivist in the whole bunch. I guess the separation between librarians and archivists is complete.
March 16, 2009 at 3:42 PM
@Russell D. James I wonder why that is? The nominees come from within the library field itself so is it a matter of special collections librarians and company not making themselves known to “traditional” librarians or is it there really a divide between the two professions?
March 17, 2009 at 8:46 PM
what’s a ‘traditional’ librarian?
I would read the fine print about how movers and shakers are nominated, and ask whether or not it is considered that important — there have been some posts somewhere I read about a year ago, that many of former movers and shakers were also out of work even though they were moving and shaking at some point.
I’ll try to find where I read this maybe on LITA somewhere
I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it.
March 18, 2009 at 8:32 AM
@Karen W I used “traditional” librarian to describe the general perception of a librarian. People do not usually think of archivists, special collections librarians, etc as librarians. When people think of librarians, they usually think of people who work in public or academic libraries – the individuals helping them with research questions, not the people who are handling historic documents, music collections or working in law libraries.
I don’t think anyone is losing any sleep over it, I think Russell just made an observation that none of the winners work in special collections. Which begs to question whether archivists and librarians see their fields as linked or as two totally separate careers?
March 19, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Ahhh but this is not true.
What can we say about what their educational degrees are ? There is however a distinction often made between archivists and special collections librarians.
I’m actually impressed that Russell included them together, most do not.
…”I used “traditional” librarian to describe the general perception of a librarian. People do not usually think of archivists, special collections librarians, etc as librarians. When people think of librarians, they usually think of people who work in public or academic libraries – the individuals helping them with research questions, not the people who are handling historic documents, music collections or working in law libraries…”