last post..

a little frustration...sorry. But I seriously am reconsidering my decision to leave Boston and do the UMD program and not, say, the Simmons. The paper I refer to in an earlier post has to do with the state of archival education. Is it serving new archivists. We started this paper out thinking that what is lacking in graduate archival education is hands-on experience. But, while I still believe that, I think the problem is more that we are so subsumed by the library part of library school that they overlook our uniqueness. Our unique archival identity. I have to argue with people when I tell them what I do, that I am not a glorified librarian. I am proud of my profession, but this academic experience makes me think I might, indeed, be a glorified librarian.