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======== Original Message ======== It's also true that not all of us want to be law or healthcare librarians. So some of us have to take jobs with much lower salaries, if we are to work in the sectors that interest us. -----Original Message----- From: Amanda Platts [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 5:00 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Not all librarians are badly paid! >Simon Wilson wrote > With > regards to posts advertised in the LA Record with starting salaries > around 9k, the simple thing to do is ignore them. I would prefer a starting salary of 9k to the alternative - unemployment. Get real, Simon!! Amanda ****** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** Amanda Platts Special Collections Brotherton Library University of Leeds ======== Fwd by: Richard Crook ======== Actually, healthcare libraries do not pay necessarily that brilliantly either. From one careers' guide I browsed some time ago NHS librarians were among the most poorly paid (though thankfully much better - in my present position following a recent upgrade - than the 9K being banded about). Still 18K (not my present salary) seems respectable enough though someone thought it rather low. Like Amanda said, 9k is better than the alternative. Furthermore I know of some graduate lab staff at this Trust who as trainees were on 8K!! So, it's not just recently qualified librarians who get a raw deal. Richard Richard Crookes Nurse Education Library Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust Farnborough Hospital ORPINGTON Kent BR6 8ND %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%