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Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis
Perhaps our board librarians can tell us if getting asked such questions by one's mayor or university president is a sad reality of the job. Plus, after continuing in her job, the librarian was fired. Not convinced on that one.
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I'm not a librarian but I voted on a tenure issue for the librarians at the University of Wisconsin and also sat on a review board which reinstated a fired librarian. At many university libraries, librarians can earn tenure, even though they mostly do not teach. Tenure is a license to tell the truth. Librarians need tenure to allow them to do their job, which, in part, is to put controversial materials on the shelves.