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[-] magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Lmao, you need a fucking masters to catalogue and check out books to local schoolchildren but you don't need it to be trusted with a badge and a gun.

We're so fucked dude.

Edit: Mentioned in reply to another comment, but sorry for making librarians sound like they don't do much. My point wasn't that they're not important, my point was that they don't make life or death decisions for random members of the community on the daily.

[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago

You are dramatically underestimating the responsibilities and skill set of a librarian.

[-] magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't doubt that. Handling large groups of kids, especially in the summer when they've got nowhere else to go, all while keeping a vital resource to the community alive.

Admittedly that was a shitty way to paint librarians, so sorry about that.

That being said, a bad cop can do a lot more damage to a community than a bad librarian.

[-] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

Actually to be a school librarian you only need a bachelor's of education focusing in something IT-related, plus whatever teaching cert your state requires. And in public libraries, you also only need a bachelor's in information science to be a library tech, which is the one that stocks the shelves and checks out books to local schoolchildren. Only being a full librarian needs a Master's. That said, academic libraries won't even look at you if you have less than a Master's.