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  • Abram, Stephen K. (1999) "Pushing the pay envelope: Y2K compensation strategies." Information Outlook 3(10):18-22.

    "The job title "librarian" is insufficient to describe the breadth of opportunity opening up in today's world."

  • Barron, Daniel D. (1995). "Information services facilitators to replace school library media specialists (debate on most suitable job title)." School Library Media Activities Monthly 11:48-50.

  • Braun, Linda W. (2002). "New Roles: A Librarian by Any Name." Library Journal 127(2):46.

    "Plenty of librarians have integrated technology into their jobs without any change in their job description or title. . .However, librarians are not just called librarians anymore. Increasingly their job responsibilities and titles provide a framework for the technological role that they play within the library."

  • Buskin, John. (1997). "Too many chiefs: instead of raises or extra vacation days, companies are offering up fancy new job titles." Working Woman 22(5):12.

  • Cummins, Julie. (2001). "Can a name spin straw into gold?" School Library Journal 47(2): 9.

    "A traditional job description for someone who works with children in the library calls that specialist a children's librarian. Simple, direct, and clearly defining the responsibilities, but does it convey status?"

  • Dolan, Donna R. and John Schmacher. (1997). "New Jobs Emerging In and Around Libraries and Librarianship." Online 21:68-72.

  • Fryer, Bronwyn. (1995). "The job title shuffle." Computerworld 29(19):102.

  • Jessell, John C. and Beymer, Lawrence. (1992). "The effects of job title vs. job description on occupational sex typing." Sex Roles: A Journal of Research 27(1/2):73-84.

  • Jopson, Jana and Smith, Hershella. (1997). "A job by any other name. (multimedia designers)." Training & Development 51(6):28-30.

  • Lange, Holley R. (1991). "Catalogers, is it time for a (title) change? (change of job title to enhance status). Technicalities 11:14-15.

  • Magnus, Margaret. "What's in a title? Plenty." Personnel Journal 67(3):23-26.

  • Malia, Elizabeth. (1987). "What's in a name? It depends. (paraprofessional job titles)" Colorado Libraries 13:16-17.

    "For the average person who walks in the library's doors, anyone who works in a library is a librarian."

  • McGinnis, John. (1992). "The names we call ourselves." CMLEA Journal 15:36-9.

  • Paterson, Jim. (2002). "Tomorrow's Job Titles." Futurist 36(3):9.

  • Stoker, David. (1999). "Wanted--An Innovative and Visionary Evidence Based/Knowledge Management Librarian." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 31(2):67-69.

    "Yet in spite of the changes in the curricula offered by departments of information management over the last three decades there are still a surprisingly large number of posts that are designated 'librarian' of one kind or another."

  • "Title search." (1995). PC Week 12(46):E4.

  • Woodsworth, Anne. (1996). "Jettisoning the jargon (use of plainer language to describe library jobs)." Library Journal 121:41.

  • Vitiello, Jill. (1996). "A job by any other title. (new job titles in IS)." Computerworld 30(12):88.

    "Ironically, most of the people interviewed for this article didn't know their official job titles or didn't have one. When asked how they should be identified, many invented titles on the spot that at least partially described their functions and level of authority."

  • Yucht, Alice H. (1998) "Descriptive cagaloguing?" Teacher Librarian 26(2): 34.
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