Librarians everywhere hate me

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Prudence

the Dean cancelled future offerings of the humanities reference class (leaving social science and health science reference) because "it's all on the internet."

Which program did you go through?

What's weird about that is that of the three major reference specialties, the humanities is the worst represented on the internet. Monographs are the primary method of scholarship in the humanities and while the digitization of those resources is finally beginning, the more journal-based scholarship of the hard and soft sciences has been electronic since well before the World Wide Web (god to I miss my DIALOG account).

The pay isn't necessarily terrible, at least in my chosen track (academic reference librarianship, though getting in the door is hard) but it simply paled in comparison to what I was able to make doing web application development.