jeudi 2 mars 2017

Some Issues Surrounding Library Staffing

By Carol Brooks


Modern methods of storing data and cataloging records and books have paved the way for more modern qualifications for librarians. There have been revamps about public systems that welcome anyone who wants to do research with books and the internet. In any case, there is so much data found in any of these places that there is a need to preserve them as well as employ custodians.

The personnel being discussed here have always been present for assisting the academe or even government do research or study. Library staffing LA is the subject that tries to get back people on track for employment at libraries for city systems. There is no lack of trainable or qualified people in this sector but there are political items that are affecting employment here.

There was a time nearly a decade back when library unions were at odds with employers over salaries and needed increases. This has led to many libraries being understaffed today, even while more recent stuff like online usage have been added. More qualifications have been added to the set required for hiring library personnel even as low salaries are still a thorn.

Benefits have not been commensurate to what staff is asked to do in more modern terms. And personnel need to be still working within a tradition, to care for what have been denigrated as dead tree books. Generating names in this way is not helping, and can even be an irresponsible reactive response against an establishment that has seen to have helped the powers that be even while helping advance the cause of humanity.

The city Los Angeles, CA which is considered one of the major cultural centers of the country, the lack of staffers may not be something that really affects it. But time will tell whether this trend for decreasing numbers of librarians and even teachers in a related field will become a problem. The American Library Association has reported this shortage in all types of schools.

There are many groups interested in helping out these places with newer systems of managing info, mostly based on software. But this has seem to deal librarians out of the pack, and their places in the process. Software is excellent, always, but techies are treading sensitive ground when they demand open source from a system with strict censorship rules.

Some of the most famous or ancient of these places have many works hidden from general circulation or even banned from human sight. There can be a connection to the guerilla like movement behind Wiki leaks, and many netizens are probably working for it with online means. Wikipedia can curate and can possibly take the place of libraries in the future, but the caveat is that they do not have control over classified info and proscribed stuff.

Libraries and their staff have not gone down in value even with these issues today. Many still go to it as a place when studying is most important. The student populations still patronize it as a place where learning reaches its apex in preparing for tests.

There are still traditional modes of learning that apply. And the library system in this bright cultural center where writers and moviemakers are the highest paid talent is still very relevant. When the moves call for razing these buildings down and putting in parking lots, something should be done about it.




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