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
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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