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Dear Mr. Ditchburn: OK. You've scared me. I shouldn't have said publicly that your job rejections may have had to do with your personality--and I do apologize. For anyone on ARLIS-L that had any doubt, you are correct--I have never met you. I based my assumption entirely on your written comments and this may have been unfair. However, I take strenuous issue with your implication that personality should not be a consideration in the hiring process. It is always a consideration in any job anywhere, indeed, throughout life in any relationship anywhere. To deny this is at best naive. This does not mean that one is hired "on the basis of personality (or 'attitude') rather than knowledge." Of course, knowledge of the appropriate subject fields, education within those fields (i.e., degrees in librarianship and relevant subject fields as well as appropriate internships), and prior experience all come into play in the hiring process. But woe to the employer who hires someone without regard to their ability to interact positively with people--library staff, faculty, curators, general public, students, whoever one's clientele will be. Yes, I DO want my surgeon and my lawyer and my garage mechanic to have "good personalities." Even if all I wanted from them was their knowledge, their ability to communicate that knowedge (and to hear my problem) can be grossly impaired by that complex entity I flippantly referred to as "personality." I bet this is true even amongst Classics scholars. Joan Benedetti __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]