Gypsy Librarian

am hoping to use this as a tool to reflect and learn more about being a librarian and educator. I will likely feature items about librarianship as well as things I read in my other areas of academic interest or of interest as a reader. The idea of the gypsy librarian is really quite simple. In academia, the gypsy scholar is the adjunct college professor without any chance of tenure who teaches at two or three different places to make ends meet (it is way for colleges and universities to get faculty to teach the undergraduate courses the senior professors refuse to teach without actually paying decent salaries). While librarians tend to have a bit more security in terms of jobs, it is not by much for one. Also, a gypsy is a wanderer, and I am a wanderer at heart. As Tolkien wrote, "not all who wander are lost."

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