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By: Caitie-Jane Cook,
on 9/14/2015
In 2004, I was waiting on a tube platform and spotted posters asking: ‘Police – could you?’. I thought about that a lot and realised that, at that point in time, I couldn’t. I didn’t feel certain enough that, in difficult situations, I would have good enough judgement always to do the right thing. Fast forward ten years and I’d done a fair bit of growing up. I’d worked in a police force and spent a lot of time with officers – both regulars and Specials.
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By: Jessamyn West,
on 9/2/2010
If the numbers are there, I’d like to see them. Otherwise this speculation about the graying of the profession doesn’t really seem to be fact-based.
“ALA is still promoting the idea that we are approaching a librarian shortage and cannot possibly train enough people to continue on the grand tradition of librarianship. This information was suspect a couple years ago, and considering the state if libraries right now–academic, public and special– it’s a damn lie.” [via @librarianmer]
By: Lauren,
on 8/23/2010
On December 23, 2002, the United States ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. This document defines a “child soldier” as a person under the age of 18 involved in hostilities. This raises the minimum age from the age of 15 set in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Neuroscience is now providing us with the tools to see what many have long suspected: the adolescent brain has not yet fully developed. In particular, the prefrontal cortex, which regulates complicated decision-making and calculation of risks and rewards is not yet fully developed. The American Bar Association used this knowledge in its support of the ban on the death penalty for minors.
Article 7 of this document states that nations who are parties to it will cooperate in the, “rehabilitation and social reintegration of persons who are victims.” The Declarations and Reservations made by US related primarily its recruitment of 17-year-olds and noting that the ratification did not mean any acceptance of the Convention on the Rights of the Child itself, nor the International Criminal Court, thus indicating its acceptance of Article 7.
However, the United States frequently detains and incarcerates child soldiers. The United Nations has noted the “presence of considerable numbers of children in United States-administered detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan” (p.6). The New York Times states the U.S. report to the UN regarding its compliance with the Optional Protocol states that it has held thousands of children in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002. The same report also states that a total of eight children have been held at Guantanamo Bay.
The United States is currently in the process of trying a child soldier who has been held at Guantanamo Bay for the past 8 years. Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen, is accused of throwing a grenade that killed an American soldier, Sgt. Christopher Speer. Omar was 15 years old at the time, well below the minimum age for child soldiers. The head of UNICEF, a former U.S. national security advisor, has stated his opposition to the trial:
The recruitment and use of children in hostilities is a war crime, and those who are responsible – the adult recruiters – should be prosecuted. The children involved are victims, acting under coercion. As UNICEF has stated in previous statements on this issue, former child soldiers need assistance for rehabilitation and reintegration into their communities, not condemnation or prosecution.
The Paris Principles, principles and guidelines on children associated with armed groups, was developed in 2007 to provide guidance on these issues. Developed by the United Nations, it has been endorsed by 84 nations as of 2009, not including the United States. It states that “Children … accused
By: Beth,
on 5/25/2010
YALSA will be launching a new section of its website focusing on recruiting young adult and secondary school librarians — and we need your stories! There’s no better recruitment tool than the experience and wisdom of people in the field itself.
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Visit the wiki page we’ve created and add your answers to these three questions:
Thanks for all you do to support teen services at your library.
Yep, I agree completely with you (and Meredith, and Annoyed Librarian) that this line is tired, wrong, and ridiculous. I’d just like to offer one slight correction: This information was suspect a couple of decades ago, let alone a couple of years. That detail aside, you are absolutely correct to point out the fallacy of this notion.
Not to be all anecdote = data, but my office of 16 professional librarians includes 8 between 24-35, so yeah, don’t see it.
[...] show us the numbers re: new librarian jobs: [...]
Sounds like the line we were fed in the 80s about the impending shortage of college professors – and look how that one turned out.
I believe that within ALA there is not a lot of talk about the graying of the profession, at least as it relates to a rush to get new librarians. When I read this I equated it more to maybe something that was said by someone at BYU. BYU, and other places, may want to be able to have internships as a way to have a pool of possible future people to hire. That is not the same as there being a shortage of positions available for everyone with an MLS in libraries.
Obviously, we do need a constant stream of new people coming into the profession but I think we all recognize the economic situation this country is in. This has caused many people not to retire as early as they might have and for libraries to have to reduce staffing. And we all know about libraries closing.
I find it interesting that a line like this, which probably is incorrect, is then applied to ALL of ALA thinking this. These kinds of generalizations are seldom good and, in this case, just plain false.
I graduated from an established LIS univ. program back in Dec. 2008 at the same time the job market began to implode. I have applied for LIS jobs inside and outside of my home state and have had zero success. As a result, I am looking for any perm full time job at this point and part of me wonders why I bothered getting my MSLIS in the first place. I now wonder about the “librarian shortage” mantra especially since ebooks and new digital technologies (e.g. iPad)are gradually replacing libraries.
In 2009, ALA issued a report, “Planning for 2015: The Recent History and Future Supply of Librarians.” It was prepared by two demographers who worked with Census data. Here’s the link to the report: http://www.ala.org/ala/research/librarystaffstats/recruitment/Librarians_supply_demog_analys.pdf
More anecdote != data, but we just had a woman retire from my library. She’s in her 60′s and had been at the library 38 years (without a library degree), and her replacement is 42 and has a degree. Of the other seven full-time professional staff, one other woman is over 60 and looking to retire in the next few years (our assistant director/head of IT), but the rest range in age 28-52.
According to the ALA hype, these ages would place us behind the curve, but from what I see at meetings and conference, our ages seem fairly typical.
It doesn’t seem like something the ALA should be pushing. It cheapens the profession to have tons of applicants for each position.