Many choose titles that are the most prestigious possible, as if the
title bestowed wisdom, talent, knowledge, skills. Some librarians I know
are very intelligent, vibrant, capable and funny, but others are beige.
The archivists with whom I work are talented, bright, crazy (it helps)
and dedicated, but I also know some who are almost not there. It's the
person, not the title. 

 

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply -
never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to
others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what
you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. 
Lewis Carroll
<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/l/lewiscarro106111.html> 

 

Michael McColgin

Conservation Officer

Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records

And (proof that titles don't mean much)

President, Society of Southwest Archivists


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