Best Careers 2009: Librarian

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Am pleased with what you've said above. Am a librarian by profession but we're seen like failures in life

GEOFFREY MOSE of KY 4:14PM September 17, 2011

Thank you so much for the article and links. I worked at a library for 3 years and am now considering pursuing an MS in Library Science. Thank you for the help!

Jennifer of CA 1:47PM May 17, 2011

i just graduated in diploma in library studies from university of Ghana,legon,having seen the prospect of this discipline decided to continue with degree in formation studies........can i pursue my master of art in information management...

nana tuffour 10:12AM April 12, 2011

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maria of IN 9:27AM December 23, 2010

I am a graduating library science students this coming 2011. At first I didn't love it,,,but as I the years goes by, I learn to appreciate my course. And I want to work abroad to experience more challenging work.

lailanie 3:38AM December 03, 2010

I'm having my on-the-job training extension in our barangay reading center, and there are a lot of books that were donated by public libraries but most of it were for high schools and colleges,.Very limited on the books for elementary..In this connection, I want to beg from you if you have something to donate to the barangay reading center. Thank You!!!

lailanie 3:37AM December 03, 2010

I am a graduating library science students this coming 2011. At first I didn't love it,,,but as I the years goes by, I learn to appreciate my course. And I want to work abroad to experience more challenging work.

lailanie 3:31AM December 03, 2010

Libririanship is a profession that safe life of not just a person, it protects even generations unborn. Knowledge located, processed, organised and disseminated helps doctors to know which drug to prescribe, helps lawyers to know what steps to win a case, helps leaders to know what best decision to make and helps to preserve all valueable knowledge for the future posterity. Choosing librarianship as a profession prepare your family to be a bibliophile. And above all place you on pedestea of respetability among friends and colleagues because you become a human encyclopeadia helping them with there information need. You will never be obsolate because information rules the world who ever has it becames the king of kings as librarian is the professor of professors.

Azeez Adeoye 4:15AM November 17, 2010

MLIS/MLS/MI degrees are a dime a dozen these days. If you want an academic library career: First, kiss your instructor's a**es in the worst way, then, of course, already be from a family of academics, and get your degree in IT an addition to that second master's in whatever specialty - because everybody wants that "metedata" librarian, which is short for IT person.
Be prepared to be discriminated against based on degree origin, both undergrad and grad, non-minority status, heterosexual maleness, as well as having any kind of feeling that the stupid amount of education expected should, logically, lead to a living wage. It happened to me, and I was always as deferential (PC) as was I expected to be. I was used far too often as interview fodder where the decision had been made months prior to my financing the interview process for these elitist shills.
Just don't bother. That is, unless you've already retired from another job, and want to double dip. Or if your significant other brings enough bacon home you can be paid a pittance, and just feel the good vibes of being especially more intelligent (or, rather, ecomonically superior) than those workies that have to earn a living to survive.
Library schools exist only to further their own continuance. That is the unvarnished truth. There is no shortage of librarians. There never was. The ALA is simply a conference generating organization used by the "select" to further their careerist ends. Anyone who doesn't toe their line will be blacklisted.
End of screed.

Pleb of FL 8:26AM October 11, 2010

I'm 53 with a BA in Business and have worked in healthcare my entire adult life. However Library Science sounds like something I want to investigate as a second-career. If I go to grad school now I'd most likely be nearly 57 when finished. How good are my chances at getting a job at that age? Also it doesn't seem to be unusual to see people in Library Science with multiple graduate degrees. That is not possible with me.

Bob of IL 12:48PM September 07, 2010