Comments on: Cutter it out http://blog.niceperson.org/2004/04/12/cutter-it-out/ Making it up as I go along. Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:34:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dorothea Salo http://blog.niceperson.org/2004/04/12/cutter-it-out/comment-page-1/#comment-274 Dorothea Salo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog.niceperson.org/2004/04/12/cutter-it-out/#comment-274 I happily yield mastery of Cutter geekery to you. You're just demonstrating my point, though. Anybody who knows this much about Cutter numbers has gotta be a librarian. I happily yield mastery of Cutter geekery to you.

You're just demonstrating my point, though. Anybody who knows this much about Cutter numbers has gotta be a librarian.

]]> By: Laurabelle http://blog.niceperson.org/2004/04/12/cutter-it-out/comment-page-1/#comment-275 Laurabelle Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog.niceperson.org/2004/04/12/cutter-it-out/#comment-275 Of course no one who's not a librarian would care a whit about Cutter numbers, but that doesn't mean that someone who doesn't geek at the drop of a hat like I do (can you believe that I pulled all that out of my memories from cataloging class way back last fall?) isn't just as much a librarian as I. To put it another way, Cutter geekery is an indicator of a librarian, but lack of such doesn't mean anything. Personally, I think librarianship is an attitude. When did I stop calling myself a <q>proto-librarian</q> and start calling myself a <q>librarian</q> pure and simple? I don't know, but it doesn't have anything with getting a job. It's all about the 'tude. Of course no one who's not a librarian would care a whit about Cutter numbers, but that doesn't mean that someone who doesn't geek at the drop of a hat like I do (can you believe that I pulled all that out of my memories from cataloging class way back last fall?) isn't just as much a librarian as I. To put it another way, Cutter geekery is an indicator of a librarian, but lack of such doesn't mean anything.

Personally, I think librarianship is an attitude. When did I stop calling myself a proto-librarian and start calling myself a librarian pure and simple? I don't know, but it doesn't have anything with getting a job. It's all about the 'tude.

]]> By: Dorothea Salo http://blog.niceperson.org/2004/04/12/cutter-it-out/comment-page-1/#comment-276 Dorothea Salo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog.niceperson.org/2004/04/12/cutter-it-out/#comment-276 Oh, now you're taking me far more seriously than I meant to be taken. The whole secret-handshake thing was intended as a minor giggle, not a serious discriminator. I don't think I'm a librarian quite yet. But I'm getting there. Oh, now you're taking me far more seriously than I meant to be taken. The whole secret-handshake thing was intended as a minor giggle, not a serious discriminator.

I don't think I'm a librarian quite yet. But I'm getting there.

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