Re: Position Announcement - Cornell - 40 lbs of dust

["Kevin. Mac Donnell" <info@MACDONNELLRAREBOOKS.COM>]

I've found that booksellers are the worst about making cracks about
booksellers. You did not see the students who sat in my classes during
library school  --I could make the same crack about booksellers (and do)
that I made about them. But it's best if booksellers stick to making cracks
about booksellers and people with MLSs stick to making cracks about others
with MLSs. I qualify on both counts, so beware!

I had asthma for seven years and it was rarely under adequate control. I
have family members with various disabilities, and employees too. I'd wish
none of this on anyone. Please spare me lectures about diabilities.

The days of library pages waiting in the wings to do the grunt work for
professional librarians, as charming as those bygone days were, may be
fading from the scene. Shall we all observe a moment of silence?

Kevin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gabriel Austin" <gabrielaustin@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME>
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [EXLIBRIS] Position Announcement - Cornell - 40 lbs of dust


> Kevin,
> That's just being a smart aleck. Pray that you do never get asthma, or
> emphysema, or a bad back, or a crippling disease. Had you known such
> great librarians as Archie DeWeese in the NYPL who had to use a cane to
> get around, perhaps you would not be as flip.
> The requirements seem to show a refusal to hire what used to be called
> pages, and I don't mean those in books. Go from the normal professional
> work into doing the work of pages: where then does it end?
> And maybe lay off the cracks about library school students.  You leave
> yourself open to cracks about booksellers.
> Gabriel Austin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Exlibris [mailto:EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME] On Behalf Of Kevin. Mac
> Donnell
> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 6:00 PM
> To: EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME
> Subject: Re: [EXLIBRIS] Position Announcement - Cornell - 40 lbs of dust
>
>
> It is if the employer can legally defend it. You might also be required
> to type, be able to turn pages in a book, point people to the nearest
> restroom, and refill paper in the photocopier. In a small town branch
> library you might have to clean a restroom, sweep a sidewalk, or drive a
> truck. I will leave to your imaginations the skills required of school
> librarians.
>
> As one who has collated a few thousand books and hefted just as many
> boxes (not to mention breathing dust), I can well understand why lifting
> a box may not seem (or feel) like a "professional function" but
> employment (and life) is full of indignities, and many of them conform
> to Federal Labor Laws, ADA II, and OSHA.
>
> Kevin
>
>