On one of the list-servs I read someone brought up this Women's Day Magazine Be a Librarian for a Day Contest. The response from the librarians on the list, to paraphrase our Attorney General, is more than a little hysterical.
These "Be a Whatever for a Day" contests are fairly common. When you win a contest to be, say, an airline pilot for a day, no resonable person should expect a) that you'll actually be flying a plane, or b) that single day will be enough training to be able to replace a real pilot.
It's just a stupid contest!
The thing I'm more bothered about is that the Grand Prize, the day in the library and a Women's Day T-shirt is lsited as having a retail value of just $25. I'm spending quite a bit more than that on schooling to eventually put me in a library, and if I knew all I would have had to do to get my foot in the door would be to write a winning 700-word essay, I'd certainly have rethought the path the last several years of my life have taken.
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