What are people thinking?

Now, this is interesting.

Honestly, at first I thought this was a joke.

For instance, check out this YouTube presentation on “Motivational Deficiency”. (I believe that I may have experienced a touch of this syndrome just last Monday morning)


But it turns out that these folks are quite serious;

“…the techniques of ‘disease-mongering’, in particular the expansion of the boundaries of disorders, the medicalisation of normal life events and the portrayal of risk factors as diseases is prevalent in the medical marketing world. Conference delegates expressed the hope that the public and media would become more skeptical of such claims and that health professionals would challenge the claims and recognise the marketing interests that attempt to shape their perceptions of disease.”

The Public Library of Science (An important, open-access science resource which really deserves a ‘blog entry of its own) has a collection of articles on “Disease Mongering” here.

Perhaps all these (ahem) patients really need is a bracing dose of bibliotherapy?

Searching “Librarian and syndrome” in Google returns:

“Systems Librarian Imposter Syndrome”

“Overprotective Librarian Syndrome”

“Tidy Librarian Syndrome”

“Silent Librarian Syndrome”

Finally, there must be a market out there among librarians for this sort of thing, Haworth Press has created a cottage industry out of it.

“Martyr-Librarian Syndrome”

“University-Library Syndrome”

Sometimes,,,,Its just not worth it

Friday afternoon was a total waste of library work.

The copier was down, one of our employee's parent's passed a way and many attender her funeral, no one returned my calls and surprisingly, everyone who came into the library needed their research completed "right away".

Only a month to go.

I have finally decided

After taking a sick day off work and being blamed for causing a gap service (despite the fact that I followed established procedure), I have made the decision to terminate my current employment at the library which I am working.

That WILL NOT stop me from keepin gthis blog current.

I still very much love library science and will hoefully find anoth position in the same field.

I just feel that my current working environment is dis-jointed and very inward thinking, if that makes any sense.

The people whom I work with are not bad in the least, but there is nothing too exciting about them, they are just kind of there.

I am looking for a working environment that invigorates me, and beckons me to get up in the morning. I know that may be a lot to ask, but all of my former positions did this for me, even when I was in the military.

So I will be handing in my resignation on Monday.

Wish me luck.

Just too funny

I have started searching YouTube clips just to see what all is out there. It was inevitable that I come across clips which invloved the library.

I am not sure if this one is real or not, but it is funny to watch...enjoy!