Carol, I think the solution is to regard non-traditional set-ups with pride.
Yesterday I went for an interview at an audit "entrepreneur" company, a
bunch of kids in a back room indexing and releasing high-quality information
(UK and European) with a 24 hour turn-round. Nobody would call this
"librarianship" (thank God) but effectively this is what they do - there is
no bureaucracy, no "youmusthavelunchbetween12orone" it deals in pure
information which gets sold, which is timely and appropriate.
Anything else, we are describing dinosaurs.
Emilce
>From: Carol Wurcbacher <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Carol Wurcbacher <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Calling all non librarians
>Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:29:27 -0000
>
>Hi,
>
>Are there any other non-librarians out there who are in the process of
>writing their PDRs?
>
>I am in a bit of dilemma. The PDR blues have hit me!
>
>As my post is 'non-traditional' I feel I have to explain pretty fully
>various aspects of my job and how the organisation I work for deals with
>different things. This is gobbling up many words and is starting to throw
>me way over the word limit. It feels like only a limited part of what I
>want to say is able to be put in appendicies (although they are likely to
>be pretty extensive as well). It's not so much giving a job description but
>explaining the organisation and the various backgrounds to things I want to
>put in my report. I'm aware that common reasons for rejecting PDRs are
>mentioning something and not explaining it fully and so my dilemma
>persists.
>
>Is anyone having any similar problems and has anyone got any solutions?
>
>Thanks
>Carol
>
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