LITA certainly welcomes medical librarians (both in tech positions and 
not)!

Abigail <-- medical librarian


On 1/6/2015 11:05 AM, Andreas Orphanides wrote:
> I don't disagree with that, that's for sure. What it DOES suggest is that
> the closest thing to tracking "librarian" vs "not" is likely how they
> self-identify for dues purposes, which means that the data is probably not
> so good.
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Cindi Blyberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Based on previous experience, I doubt this truly captures whether someone
>> thinks of themselves as a librarian.  I've always found those categories
>> arbitrary (an MLS does not a librarian make) and sometimes divisive.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Andreas Orphanides <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> There's a different dues schedule for librarians (-slash-certification
>>> required-slash-managerial) and "support staff", so along that dimension
>> it
>>> presumably gets tracked, at the very least.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Cindi Blyberg <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>> Honestly, I don't know if ALA tracks whether people have an MLS/related
>>>> degree or if that's self-selected.  I know folks who call themselves
>>>> librarians but who aren't degreed--those would be self-selected.
>>>>
>>>> I'll see if we can find this out--I'm curious!
>>>>
>>>> -Cindi (wearing my LITA hat)
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) <
>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'd be curious about something: how many LITA members are not
>>> librarians?
>>>>> I work in a library as a web developer, which includes a medical
>>> library,
>>>>> but I don’t have an MLS. So, question: is the  Code4Lib list more
>> open
>>> to
>>>>> technical folks, but not necessarily librarians?
>>>>>
>>>>> Lisa Haitz
>>>>> University of Cincinnati Libraries
>>>>>

-- 
Abigail Goben, MLS
Assistant Information Services Librarian and Assistant Professor
Library of the Health Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
1750 W. Polk (MC 763)
Chicago, IL 60612
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