Ben Rawlins writes: “Bryn Geffert’s recent Inside Higher Ed essay argues that the MLS degree is an obstacle to hiring, a barrier to diversity, and an increasingly optional credential in academic libraries. His survey data from R1 and R2 institutions, and the hiring challenges he documents, are real. His diagnosis, however, misses the mark. My concern is not with the idea that library education needs to improve, but with the slide from that legitimate observation to the conclusion that the credential itself is the problem.”