Re: [ARSCLIST] NAVCC Job Opening: Information Technology Specialist

[Sam Brylawski <goodlistening@xxxxxxxxx>]

I might add that I'm aware of no institution which cares less about advanced
degrees than the Library of Congress. Experience gains jobs there, not
college degrees. Until the present head of recorded sound at LC, none had
library degrees and one had no advanced degree whatsoever.

Sam

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Brandon Burke <burke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Dear Steven,
>
> "Real word experience" as a private collector, musician, and professional
> listserv replier
> does not a librarian make. There are scads of controlled vocabulary and
> coding standards.
> And one is expected to be fully conversant in the use of (and contribution
> to) practice-wide
> search utilities based on complex cataloging schema, to say nothing for
> folks who work in
> preservation (incl. conservation, digitization, storage, HVAC, etc).
>
> This particular job, for example, anticipates that the prospective
> applicant already..
>
> "Analyzes formats, metadata, and packaging of data sets for a wide variety
> of content types.
> Assesses the characteristics of data sets, and uses automated tools and
> utilities to analyze,
> validate, edit, index, inventory, package, move and document data sets."
>
> I think i speak for many when i say that your "yet another job.." messages
> are getting old.
>
> thank you,
>  Brandon Burke.
>
>
>
> On May 8, 2008, at 8:44 PM, Steven Barr wrote:
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Stephen C Leggett" <sleg@xxxxxxx>
>>
>>> Information Technology Specialist (Vacancy #: 080117)
>>> GS-2210-14 - Library Services (Collections and Services, MBRS,
>>>
>> Administrative Services) - $98,033.00 - $127,442.00
>>
>>>
>>>  And, of course, this position will DEMAND that one has a litany of
>> post-graduate
>> degrees...i.e. at least ONE (or more, if possible...?!) Ph. D., but NO
>> thought or
>> credit will be allowed for real-world experience which is NOT verified by
>> a
>> wax-
>> sealed, personally autographed, bona-fide "DEGREE!!?"
>>
>> After all, our superiors in the world CANNOT let their privileged realm be
>> invaded by upstart peasants...even if the latter are actually better at
>> the
>> tasks
>> under discussion...?!
>>
>> Sorry for those I may have offended...?!
>>
>> Steven C. Barr
>>
>
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