The nature of librarians you should know.

Librarians are busy busy people. They spend almost of their time looking after other people, usually in the confines of their own spaces, whether they are called libraries, learning resources centre or something similar to that. They have to do many aspects of the job includings managing the libraries from the stock, budget, library environments, the stupid stakeholders and also managing noise (includes the buzzing from stakeholders).

On top of that, they also have to support the students, teach them how to use the library and the resources provided for them, dealing with their enquiries and manage their special needs (for special students only). The most that make the librarians grow older everyday is supporting the academic staffs. Starting with the liasing the academics, library commitees till encouraging the academics to use resource-based learning effectively.

But still, in my environment, the librarians is underestimated by those we called the stakeholders! After all we do have one priority to uphold, entertaining the dummies...he..he..he.

Categories: Academic Issues