Post: becoming a librarian
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title: "Becoming a librarian"
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description: "What does it mean to be a librarian? A little bit of self-reflective fun for the weekend."
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slug: becoming-a-librarian
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date: 2017-11-04T19:38:01+00:00
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type: post
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- Librarianship
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- Reflection
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- Silly
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What is a librarian?
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Is it someone who has a masters degree
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in librarianship and information science?
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Is it someone who looks after information for other people?
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Is it simply someone who works in a library?
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I've been grappling with this question a lot lately
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because I've worked in academic libraries for about 3 years now
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and I never really thought that's something that might happen.
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People keep referring to me as "a librarian"
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but there's some imposter feelings here because
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all the librarians around me have much more experience,
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have skills in areas like cataloguing and collection management
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and, generally, have a librarian masters degree.
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So I've been thinking about what it actually means to me
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to be a librarian or not.
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*NB. some of these [may be tongue-in-cheek](https://www.flickr.com/photos/thewikiman/5954429160/sizes/l/in/photostream/)*
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Ways in which I am a librarian:
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- I work in a library
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- I help people to access and organise information
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- I have a cat
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- I like gin
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Ways in which I am not a librarian:
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- I don't have a librarianship qualification
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- I don't work with books 😉
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- I don't knit (though I can probably remember how if pressed)
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- I don't shush people or wear my hair in a bun (I can confirm that this is also true of every librarian I know)
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Ways in which I am a [shambrarian](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shambrarian):
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- I like beer
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- I have more IT experience and qualification than librarianship
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At the end of the day,
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I still don't know how I feel about this
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or, for that matter, how important it is.
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I'm probably going to accept whatever title people around me choose to bestow,
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though any label will chafe at times!
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