How many doctors you know shovel the sidewalks at the hospital?
How many bank presidents clean toilets or mop up after a toilet at the bank overflows?
How many attorneys wear jeans to work because they have to spend the day on their hands & knees disconnecting computers & equipment?
How many school teachers are paid minimum wage with no benefits?
How many of the members on a public library's board would work in a facility with inadequate heating and/or cooling and bathrooms rival to those found in an I-70 truck stop?
How many bank presidents clean toilets or mop up after a toilet at the bank overflows?
How many attorneys wear jeans to work because they have to spend the day on their hands & knees disconnecting computers & equipment?
How many school teachers are paid minimum wage with no benefits?
How many of the members on a public library's board would work in a facility with inadequate heating and/or cooling and bathrooms rival to those found in an I-70 truck stop?
Getting my point?
Someone please answer the question: why librarians? Why?
Who consciously decided that librarianship as a profession was equal to "servitude"?
Yesterday I spoke with a Master's Certified Professional Librarian that had been cleaning toilets. Today I spoke to a library assistant certified director that was setting traps to catch a mouse. I also learned of yet another area library without air conditioning.
If I polled each member of a library board "singly" outside the board room I'm certain they would be "appalled" , but something happens to the "collective" as they sit in the board room. What is the justification for substandard working conditions, inadequate pay and no benefits, not to mention the endless job descriptions. (You know the ones, you see them on PAMAILALL all the time: 3 pages of duties for a 20-hour-a-week minimum wage position.)
One of the main "charges" for a library board of trustees is to "secure adequate funds". Shame on the library board who is paying the staff a pittance, providing no benefits, providing no access to continuing education & professional development, expecting the staff to "pick up the slack" with regards to the building & maintenance, not allowing for sufficient staffing; not providing a safe and comfortable working environment.
Board members wouldn't work under those conditions. Why do they think it is okay for librarians?
Yesterday I spoke with a Master's Certified Professional Librarian that had been cleaning toilets. Today I spoke to a library assistant certified director that was setting traps to catch a mouse. I also learned of yet another area library without air conditioning.
If I polled each member of a library board "singly" outside the board room I'm certain they would be "appalled" , but something happens to the "collective" as they sit in the board room. What is the justification for substandard working conditions, inadequate pay and no benefits, not to mention the endless job descriptions. (You know the ones, you see them on PAMAILALL all the time: 3 pages of duties for a 20-hour-a-week minimum wage position.)
One of the main "charges" for a library board of trustees is to "secure adequate funds". Shame on the library board who is paying the staff a pittance, providing no benefits, providing no access to continuing education & professional development, expecting the staff to "pick up the slack" with regards to the building & maintenance, not allowing for sufficient staffing; not providing a safe and comfortable working environment.
Board members wouldn't work under those conditions. Why do they think it is okay for librarians?
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