A heartwarming tale

The Chronicle of Higher Education today contains a wonderful account of a fellow who got his Masters' in Library Science and walked from there straight into a job as collection development specialist for Yale's literature collections. Isn't life wonderful?

Of course, he first got a PhD in English literature and spent five to ten years working the slave-labor disposable-adjunct track before giving up on what he had really wanted to do. No offense to anyone is intended here, but I'm beginning to get the impression that college libraries hire permanant staff only from the pool of PhD's who couldn't get a steady job in their first choice of profession. People who were interested in libraries from the start aren't welcome.