medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Anyway, you can always rope in an archivist. These guys are very good at
> palaeography. And there are many of them. At least overhere in Nederland.
>
Henk, even archivists get old and are replaced. Current archivists'
education, and the skills which they need to be hired, focus
increasingly on IT knowledge (not without reason, one has to admit) and
less on palaeography, diplomatics etc. Politicians and administrators,
i.e. employers, want record managers but no scholars. This is the
situation in Germany and Austria and to my knowledge it is hardly
different elsewhere.
> professorship in Palaeography. I think it unlikely that they are. KCL must
> have an approval process for new staff positions. Given that such processes
> are seldom swift, the positions probably were requested months ago, if not
> longer. They address operational needs of the Centre. The Professor of
> Palaeography is not associated with KCL's Centre for Computing in the
> Humanities, and his activities and its seem not to overlap.
John, reformers' battle cry is Innovation, and they do not care about
established duties of staff positions but about money (I do not know
about King's but quite a bit about other places). Established structures
are declared enemies to Innovation, and as there rarely are any workable
concepts for the latter the only way for reformers to claim success is
the destruction of the former, just to effect some visible change.
Best from Europe, Herwig
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