On being a librarian all the time, and switching off, and marketing yourself, and...
... the twitter bubble, and all sorts of other stuff as well.
- Here are the tweets in response to the Hacklib post, which started the conversation
I'm uncomfortable with the notion that 'true librarian' is basically always 'on'. Switching off is important, to me. hacklibschool.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/new…- Here are some of the replies, and the conversation as it evolves...
@theREALwikiman There's a couple of good comments to that effect at the bottom. (She says, whilst reading library blogs on her day off.)
@theREALwikiman Have to agree with you, but then I'm always a bit wary of zealots...- @Borissimo Yes I know what you mean - but I have also thought slightly similar things in the past so I think I'm just pretty fickle... :-)
@theREALwikiman The medical professions are vocations and they are taught to put it away - otherwise they go insane & are bad at their jobs.
@theREALwikiman being able to switch off is very important-I believe it makes you better at your job when you go back into 'librarian mode'
@librarianbyday @theREALwikiman No - Not 9 - 5 either... Just focused on whatever people you are with and what you do - I guess...- @librarianbyday @janholmquist Nope not 9-5 either. God knows I spent a lot of time thinking about / doing librarianship.
- @librarianbyday @janholmquist But I'm not defined or consumed by it, and it doesn't travel with me wherever I go...
@theREALwikiman @janholmquist agreed. That wouldn't be healthy. it does need to be more than 9-5 but not all consuming
@theREALwikiman I'm always "on" on campus, no problem. On the other hand, it bothers me when people expect me to libr* off campus.
- @ostephens @cjclib @ijclark @janholmquist @theREALwikiman If librarians have ethics & values these cannot be discarded when you are off duty
- @cjclib @ijclark @janholmquist @theREALwikiman that is not to say we have to constantly be there helping people, but ...
- @cjclib @ijclark @janholmquist @theREALwikiman … if we spent our spare time actively preventing access to information that would be conflict
