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Thursday, March 9, 2017

Some Issues Surrounding Library Staffing

By Carol Brooks


Newer and more advanced ways of recording, storing and cataloging data may have affected requirements for becoming a librarian. Revamps are being planned or made for public places which take in which people do research on books or even with online means. But then, much of the data stored in them need preservation which require the regular employment of custodians.

These people have been part of traditional and modern academic as well as government run systems for study and research. Library staffing LA is the complement for accessing the right people who can be employed in libraries in the city today. While there is no dearth of trained and educated specialists for this field, there are some issues that have affected this niche.

Some years back there have been salary issues and collective bargaining agreements that have found some libraries understaffed. There are new integrative sets for incorporating internet management into systems. While the qualifications for librarians have been added to in this regard, there are calls about addressing the issue of underpaid staff.

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.

The largest and oldest of book repositories might have many volumes that have been kept out of common circulation. There seems to be some connectivity to how Wiki leaks have advocated for more openness in censored systems. Wikipedia and its makers do not have full access to the older systems where all kinds of controls are in place, and this might have gotten libraries entangled in many issues relevant to modern technology.

It does not mean, however, that library staff have lost their currency. Because it is still that one free center that is meant for quiet study. Students do not forget this and swamp its tables when the time approaches for tests and exams.

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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