Anonymous
Post 06/02/2013 14:23     Subject: Re:What salaries are you curious about?



Anonymous wrote:
When an oncologist calls a medical research librarian and asks him to pull journal articles on a particular subject STAT because a patient's life is at risk and some new procedure might be the last resort, I'm damn glad that librarian has a masters degree, because that helps her know exactly what to look for, where, and right quick.

I sure hope an oncologist has learned how to find books in the library himself. And even an oncologist cannot provide patients with a new procedure. The health insurance companies have standardized care and it is very difficult for them to opt out of the norm.


What an incredibly uninformed and stupid post.

Of course, an oncologist can find journal articles (you think s/he's looking for books? How quaint.) on his/her own. Point is, they don't need to because that is not where their expertise lies. The finding and vetting of proper and focused resources are the expertise of the librarian. To think otherwise is not to respect the oncologist or the librarian.

As for your other crazy idea that doctors shouldn't keep current with the research because insurance companies guarantee that no one ever receives innovative care, clearly you are not a doctor nor a patient, and know less than nothing about medical care. Please go away.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2013 12:17     Subject: Re:What salaries are you curious about?
Anonymous wrote:
When an oncologist calls a medical research librarian and asks him to pull journal articles on a particular subject STAT because a patient's life is at risk and some new procedure might be the last resort, I'm damn glad that librarian has a masters degree, because that helps her know exactly what to look for, where, and right quick.
I sure hope an oncologist has learned how to find books in the library himself. And even an oncologist cannot provide patients with a new procedure. The health insurance companies have standardized care and it is very difficult for them to opt out of the norm.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2013 21:54     Subject: Re:What salaries are you curious about?
Anonymous wrote:Who is making what at Promontory Financial?

I'd like to know what their Associates, Principals, and Senior Principals make.


$150-$250K. Depends on what they bring to the table.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2013 11:09     Subject: Re:What salaries are you curious about?
Anonymous wrote:Who is making what at Promontory Financial?

I'd like to know what their Associates, Principals, and Senior Principals make.


What makes you interested in this firm?
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2013 11:06     Subject: Re:What salaries are you curious about?
To Thank you X 2. I was the original thank you poster. Just wanted to say that I am also an IU grad. What a beautiful campus. I loved living in Bloomington!


LOL! SLISers are everywhere! Why don't I meet them in DC though? Bless you. Yes, Bloomington is a really pretty place to go to school. I loved it too. Have a wonderful day!
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2013 10:39     Subject: What salaries are you curious about?
Anonymous wrote:Curious about: owner/admin of highly trafficked parents' website.


LOL and ditto!
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2013 09:56     Subject: Re:What salaries are you curious about?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Curious about all the posters on this list who are surprised that librarians hold master's degrees. As far as I know, MOST librarians have at least an M.A. in Library Science. And it's a no-joke degree.


Thank you! Not sure where all the librarian hate is coming from. Although, as I librarian, I will say that when I was in library school, most of the teachers becoming media specialists were really just burnt out teachers that wanted out of the formal classroom. Maybe the hater has some inside knowledge or experience.


Thank you X 2. I was in library school back in the mid 1980s. I didn't think my coursework for my MLS was a joke. I still use the skills I learned back then, in spite of the fact that technology has completely changed how I do my job. I went to Indiana University for my degree and I remember that I had people with other advanced degrees in English, Law, and Business in my classes. They agreed the MLS was alot of work at IU even back then. It wasn't exactly a walk in the park or a joke as the previous poster implies.


To Thank you X 2. I was the original thank you poster. Just wanted to say that I am also an IU grad. What a beautiful campus. I loved living in Bloomington!
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2013 08:59     Subject: Re:What salaries are you curious about?
Thank you X 10.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2013 00:24     Subject: Re:What salaries are you curious about?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:[i]Boo-fucking-hoo! In the real world an employee at 7-11 does more than that before a Librarian even gets out of bed! People around here think that just because you have a masters degree that it automatically makes you smart. I know plenty of people in this area that have the degrees, but are just as unknowledgeable as people that don't. It also always amazes me how people deduct that longevity / tenure should automatically mean that you deserve a lot of money. Librarians are teachers who decided to take the easy way out. Ask a real teacher and you'll see what I mean!


I guess you must think the PE teacher, counselors, art teachers, and music teachers are worthless cop-outs too? They are on the same salary scale as teachers too.
I hope if you are a teacher you are not teaching in my daughter's school. Shudder..


No, actually, I would hold all of those other teachers in higher regard than the Librarians. I hear of Librarians that have a Master's degree and it reminds me of people that get degrees in outdoor recreation. Really, I mean REALLY?....

As a side note, I'm glad that you wrote daughter's instead of daughters', because this indicates that you only have one, which means that you're watering down (dumbing down) society less than if you had multiple children! I'm hoping that your other half is more intelligent than you are, otherwise your DD doesn't stand a chance in this cesspool that we call life!

YOU give me douche chills!


Sorry, folks, but it sounds like you're focusing only one librarians who work in K-8 school settings. That is just one subset of librarians. Many librarians are research specialists specializing in law, medicine, or technology. Others are preservationists with significant training in the sciences and technology as related to archiving and restoring information that has been recorded on an ever-evolving body of physical media. When an oncologist calls a medical research librarian and asks him to pull journal articles on a particular subject STAT because a patient's life is at risk and some new procedure might be the last resort, I'm damn glad that librarian has a masters degree, because that helps her know exactly what to look for, where, and right quick.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2013 00:12     Subject: What salaries are you curious about?
Curious about: owner/admin of highly trafficked parents' website.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2013 00:10     Subject: Re:What salaries are you curious about?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Curious about all the posters on this list who are surprised that librarians hold master's degrees. As far as I know, MOST librarians have at least an M.A. in Library Science. And it's a no-joke degree.


Thank you! Not sure where all the librarian hate is coming from. Although, as I librarian, I will say that when I was in library school, most of the teachers becoming media specialists were really just burnt out teachers that wanted out of the formal classroom. Maybe the hater has some inside knowledge or experience.


I also noticed that trend in the media specialist students when I was getting my library degree. Being a librarian can mean so many different things that it's difficult to generalize anything about value. It's also difficult to describe what librarians (or library degree-holding info pros) can do, which is why I've largely given up trying to describe my job to anyone who doesn't use the services I provide. I am sure that the mystery surrounding librarians' role in creating and maintaining library technology and curating the overwhelming amount of resources we can all access only exacerbates the problem of perceived value. While it's important to advocate for our professions I am getting exhausted of it and spending too much time offering explanations takes away from actual work, which is never in short supply. Has anyone else in another field found a way to deal with this?


Public health has a similar problem. Need marketers/lobbyists/PR I guess.
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2013 23:49     Subject: Re:What salaries are you curious about?
Who is making what at Promontory Financial?

I'd like to know what their Associates, Principals, and Senior Principals make.
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2013 20:53     Subject: What salaries are you curious about?
I can't figure out if this thread is full of people who dreamed of a different career or I'd everyone is asking what their neighbors make.
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2013 20:32     Subject: Re:What salaries are you curious about?
Know: Project manager at mid-sized tech company $100k

Curious: chiropractor
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2013 15:24     Subject: What salaries are you curious about?
Anonymous wrote:Know: credit union manager: $65k

Curious: Mid-level events professional for nonprofit


depends on the size of the non-profit. 60-80k.