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Author:Ginny Brink
Date:Thursday, 25th Apr 2002 15:01
Views:3,533 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)
Category:Information Issues
URL:http://www.freepint.com/go/b17329

I am not sure where to reply or to comment on these jobs, but what strikes me - as someone who entered the field 3.5 years ago and who has trained on the job - is how badly paid info professionals are. Shouldn't we be pushing to raise the status of the work? I work in the voluntary cultural sector - not a well paid sector - and even I earn more than most of the jobs advertised.

Ginny Brink

Information Officer
Voluntary Arts Network (Network Office)
www.voluntaryarts.org

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  Jobs Advertised on Free Pint
I am not sure where to reply or to comment on these jobs, but what strikes me - as someone ...
Ginny Brink 25/04/02 15:01 17329
   Re: Jobs Advertised on Free Pint
Library jobs here in the US for the most part are paid in the same manner. Many are extremely ...
Karen Huber 16/05/02 16:20 17742
   Re: Jobs Advertised on Free Pint
Yes. One hears about the the vital role that the information professional *must* play in the wired economy. ...
Steve Coleman 25/04/02 22:31 17333
    Re: Jobs Advertised on Free Pint
There are two, maybe three, problems here: (a) the lay view of information structuring/architecture that 'it's all just common sense, isn't ...
Patrick Wallace 17/05/02 14:15 17764
    Re: Jobs Advertised on Free Pint
Steve's dead right. I did an MSc in Information Science in 1977, then an MSc in IT (Information Systems Engineering) ...
Ian Fantom 02/05/02 18:59 17496

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