Rantity: Librarians(except those who read to kids) are the most useless group of people.

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[Rodney King]

Why would anyone need a degree to be a librarian?

Librarians are some of the most unproductive people on the planet. They put books on shelves. Woo-hoo.

Got to have a degree for that. Perhaps it made sense when they needed to be experts on the Dewey Decimal system, but now we have a thing called computers.

If a clerk at Borders can put books on the shelf without a degree in Library Sciences, why can't he/she do the same thing at a library?

Libraries themselves are a waste. Go to any major college library and all you see are people there to study, yet 95% of the library is taken up not by study space but by books that nobody reads.

The books should be scanned online, and then the originals sent to a nearby warehouse in case some Poindexter really needs to get his hands on the actual book. Then, university libraries can be full of study areas with computers for research.

Fire all the "librarians" and replace them with book store clerks. All Librarians are is glorified clerks anyway.

It would seem that degrees in Library Sciences exist solely as a barrier to entry to prevent clerks from competing for "librarian" jobs.

The exception to this rule is libarians in schools and community libraries that read books to kids. Not that they need a fancy degree to do that.

[Rodney King]

Rantity = Rant/Vanity. From what I can tell this term was coined by FReeper MortMan.

[Ramius]

She turned you down, didn't she... :-)

[billybudd]

Rantity = Rant/Vanity

At first I thought it was ... well, something the FCC might have a problem with. But seriously, librarians suck. Especially high school librarians.

[seadevil]

Dood...ya need to try decaf...

[Rodney King]

bump

[tfecw]

i agree with you on the degree part. I didn't know librarians needed one to begin with. then again i didn't know you needed one to be a:(offense alert) Interior decorator or a Photographer either.

As for the scanning books into computers, i disagree. I like to hold them. I hate reading books off a computer.

[Finalapproach29er]

People who post vanity rants are the most useless.

[r9etb]

She turned you down, didn't she... :-)

There are lotsa male librarians....

[tfecw]

I was thinking that was something they were good for :) unfortunately the one by my house is staffed with ugly women. Sigh

[Politicalmom]

Librarians were some of my best friends growing up.

They are not "useless".

[Rodney King]

As for the scanning books into computers, i disagree. I like to hold them. I hate reading books off a computer.

Well, me too. I buy them from Amazon. But if one is doing a research paper, it is a hell of a lot easier if the books are on computer and you can search for what you are looking for. Then, if you really need the book you pay the library a few bucks to get it from the warehouse.

[MortMan]

Hey, one quick quip and I'm famous!!! Thanks for the credit. I did make it up, but such jokes are usually more miss than hit. I'm glad this one found some favor!

[MineralMan]

This rant belongs in chat.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

This is childish, but at least it's not another effing Terry Schiavo post.

And I couldn't disagree with you more: a well-trained, helpful librarian can be extremely useful if you've got a large amount of research to perform. Some librarian must've refused your advances or something.

[tfecw]

yeah thats a good point. Then again in college i never went to the school library for research. Thats what a dorm with Internet access is for.

[Rodney King]

Yeah, I only clicked "vanity". I don't know how to send it to chat because there is no "chat" box to click. I would have done so if I knew how.

[tfecw]

This is childish, but at least it's not another effing Terry Schiavo post.

not yet. Give it time and somebody will come along and say at least librarians aren't pulling feeding tubes out or something like that.

[MortMan]

One a more serious note, "librarian science" is a degree that is actually useful in performing CM (configuration management) for high-integrity software and systems development (such as those systems on airplanes).

[Borges]

Reading a book on a computer is a sure way to eventually go blind.

[Rodney King]

not yet. Give it time and somebody will come along and say at least librarians aren't pulling feeding tubes out or something like that.

Well, librarians are mostly liberals, and are constantly adovcating allowing porn on library computers. I'll be if you asked the American Library Association what they thought of Schiavo, they would be on the side of killing her.

By the way, the fact that they are mostly liberals are further proof that they are useless, as most liberals are.