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另一个图书馆员博客 on 十月 22, 2013.
在上一个
发布 我查看了爱尔兰图书馆和信息科学界的实习问题，并发布了一些有关其使用率提高的问题。最后，我说我将尝试对我在帖子中提出的问题做出一些答复。
但是首先，在此之前，我想提一下我在帖子中获得的积极反馈。特别是受JobBridge计划倡议直接影响的一些人在博客上发表的评论。我建议阅读这些评论，因为它们向我展示了一些非常现实的问题以及爱尔兰图书馆界当前使用JobBridge程序引起的问题。我不知道这与其他部门之间的关系，但我可能会警告它可能非常相似。我还要感谢那些活跃的Twitter用户，他们对此发表了评论，然后转推了该帖子，并向与我愉快地谈论他们对该帖子的想法的朋友转发。
最后，在继续回答问题之前，我只需要在回答前放一个很大的恕我直言– all of these answers 是 very much my own opinion 和 whilst I value my opinion quite highly I’a知道，并非所有人都可能非常重视它。
1 –我问的第一个问题是，如果机会出现，最近的MLIS毕业生应否担任图书馆实习职位？
我回答这个问题就好像我处于做出这个决定的令人羡慕的位置-我会说是的，是一个很大的同意-担任这个职位，即使这是18个月的实习期。推理？实际上，采取一种方法是，在当今的图书馆环境中，您将获得任何真正的图书馆经验。如果没有这种实际的实践经验，那么实际获得‘real job’将会非常苗条。现在的情况是爱尔兰产生的MLIS毕业生人数比以往任何时候都要多–在目前完全没有职位可满足这些毕业生的就业需求和愿望的时候。它’s basic economics –您的供应远远超出了他们的需求。有了这种失衡，那些因此而幸运地得到那些有限的人‘real 职位’我会认为并希望自己具备资格并有实践经验。获得入门级图书馆助理工作的相对较新的日子已经一去不复返了，他们没有经验，只有离开证书。由于毕业生人数众多，现在入门级职位将需要一个初级学位，一个研究生学位和一定水平的实践经验。实际上，实习是爱尔兰目前图书馆游戏中唯一的实践经验提供者。
2 – If there 是 no library 职位 out there, 和 seemingly not much prospect in the near future, is it worth somebody’进行图书馆学习并获得图书馆资格证书时？
I would answer this 通过 saying if you 真实ly want to work in 图书馆 / Information field then yes it is most definitely worth 做 ing a course. In the coming years, good luck to anyone without a MLIS qualification trying to get an information science related 发布. I would also say if you 是 hoping to get 真实 work any time soon on the back of it look at being pragmatic 和 maybe 做 a course that will prepare you for the only sectors that seem to be hiring –档案和存储库以及少数私人图书馆（例如法律图书馆）。
3 – If there 是 no 职位 is it ‘moral’让大学部门继续招收毕业生，并在有薪水的情况下拿走他们的钱’t seem to be any 真实istic chance of a job afterwards?
我会 nail my dark colours to the mast 这里 - I personally feel it is not 道德 for a University to offer fee based courses when they 是 aware there 是 no 职位 in that field. But equally I can not condemn any institution for 做 ing so. I live in the 真实 world –我们生活在资本主义社会– the market decides. People 是 part of the market. As long as we 是 willing to pay for a service, businesses 和 institutions, also part of the market, will offer these services. This is bright as day common sense 和 makes the world as we know it turn.
4 –图书馆应该聘用实习生9个月（或很快要18个月）吗？
我明白为什么图书馆要雇用实习生–在公共部门，或多或少地冻结了招聘，退休人数的增加导致服务方面的巨大缺口。人们认为必须弥补这些差距，而且对于MLIS毕业生而言，不公平的是，JobBridge计划是图书馆寻找和雇用廉价合格劳动力的简便方法。因此，从图书馆和图书馆管理者的角度来看，是的，他们应该雇用MLIS实习生。但是，也可以认为合同是双向的，实习生将从经验中得到切实的好处。很高兴想到，招聘图书馆也在寻找实习生的最大利益。–不只是使用它们来填补持续时间的差距，并在完成时将它们丢到一边。实习生可能对图书馆有好处–他们带来新鲜血液，以崭新的方式看待旧事物，他们似乎仍然对该行业充满热情，他们拥有青年的热情，他们相信图书馆。他们和现在厌倦的图书馆员一样多。但是图书馆需要对实习生有好处–他们需要让他们参与项目，使他们成为团队的一部分，每天教他们，训练他们，指导他们–让他们为接下来的下一个帖子做好更好的准备。他们需要与已经在该领域工作的人员展开竞争，以争夺将来的职位空缺。
5 –如果实习生不断填补图书馆中的空白，‘real’有没有提供可持续的工作？
这是一个非常现实的担忧。如果图书馆和图书馆管理者可以弥补便宜的差距，那么这样做是有道理的– there is little money to go round 和 anyway that can save money, without reducing or undermining the service, needs to be looked at. If the interns 是 being hired to supplement the existing staff then the current existing gaps will be plugged 和 services will continue to be offered –对于最终用户而言，这将照常进行，这对于图书馆管理员和资助他们的人来说是个好消息。但是从长远来看，这是否可持续？我不’真的是这样。这实际上能走多长时间？在这一短暂的过程中，士气必定会到来，因为这就是他们的现状，MLIS毕业生人数将减少–有一个可持续发展的图书馆/信息科学专业的最终希望，那就是将人们留在专业中。
6 – 是 there enough unemployed MLIS graduates looking for employment to enable gap plugging for many years?
大概！是的，甚至！
7 – Do the people 做 ing the hiring believe that libraries can be staffed solely with interns as some job bridge adverts 是 advertising?
What can I say? I would certainly hope not! I would hope that the people 做 ing the hiring 是 more than mere bean counters. I like to think they look beyond the bottom cent. I would hope they have an idea of what is involved in the day to day running of a library. I would hope they can move from the strategic sphere into the operational sphere 和 see what is required for the day to day running 和 operation of a library. Much of what we 做 on a day to day basis needs practical experience, which is not taught, in library school. It’拥有该理论非常好，但是需要一些实质性的支持。
8 –准专业人士或非专业资格人士能否以与合格的资深专业图书馆员相同的标准来运行图书馆服务？
Of course they can. But if you 是 library manager 做 ing the hiring you would have to be lucky, very lucky, to get the sort of person who can come into a library with no experience 和 actually start to run it to any sort of decent standard from day one. Experience 做 es count. How much experience obviously will depend on the position but I personally, if I were in the enviable position of hiring staff, would not hire a candidate who 做 es not have experience.
8 –如果没有资格的人员可以管理图书馆，那为什么还要麻烦去获得资格呢？为什么在不需要此资格时浪费您的金钱或时间？
If it is the case that in the future libraries 是 going to be run 通过 non academically qualified staff then obviously there would be no need to get such a qualification. But I think with the amount of graduates being churned out finding a person with an LIS qualification is not going to be the problem. With the current 做 wnturn in library positions it will be finding a person with experience.
9 – What 做 all these questions say about where we, as a profession 是, in 2014? And where 做 we go?
I would think we 是 in a particularly sensitive place. With no 职位 being created, at least in the public sector where most Irish library 和 information science related staff work, it creates uncertainty for those qualifying 和 who have recently qualified. If there 是 no positions now what happens in ten, fifteen, twenty years when people who would have been gaining experience at the lower ranks have not gained experience 和 the only positions becoming available 是 higher rank positions… MLIS毕业生现在需要获得较低级别的经验，以便将来为更高级别的职位做好准备。就目前情况而言，这没有发生。
我们要去哪里？不幸的是，在爱尔兰，对于新的LIS专业人士而言，我认为唯一的方法是Interns / JobBridge路线。这是唯一获得的经验。但这会产生第5点和第6点所述的问题。另一种选择是切断鼻子以消除面部表情– for people not to take internship positions but this, I feel, will not benefit people who 是 真实ly seeking LIS work. It’s a case of taking the medicine for the duration, getting better [at your job] 和 hopefully getting your reward, a 真正的工作, somewhere 做 wn the, hopefully not too long, road. Because, to be honest, if you can get that full time position, there is no more rewarding enjoyable fulfilling job out there. IMHO.
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