Moore police officers step in as substitutes (teachers... one with a Q cup-UPDATE).

[XanaDUer2]

26. 35 years

Here. I was dumb enough to leave a special library for a supposedly good job in a PL. It was years of stress-inducing Hell, shitty morale, violence, chaos, broken-down buildings, lack of staff, staff-on-staff bullying, disrespectful administration . People enter this field due to reading and its low-stress aura. I tell potential librarians to think hard.

There is no librarian shortage. ALA is accrediting so many programs there's a glut. We had people with two master's degrees checking out books. All we did at reference was help with photocopying and faxing, call cops, and 911.

There was a Ph.D looking for a part-time casual clerk job. The system I left is spoiled, thus the treatment of the staff. They claim they're having a hard time getting staff now, but how?

But library schools keep churning them out