― Mary (Mary), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link
i mean, there's still plenty of mundane grunt work to be done (shelving, flagging, registering people who use the library for the first time, etc). the only other library work i've really done before this was volunteering to shelve books in my hometown's local library post-renovation, so i'm not experienced in the ways of, say, reference desk work, but there's something very stimulating/taxing about spec/col also. currently, i'm organizing and processing an entire collection for research purposes which, when given to us by its donor, contained about 35 boxes of paper files and as many, if not more, boxes of videotapes. i've been working on the same project since july - i'm not finished yet and probably won't be until THIS july, and they've even got someone helping out with the videotapes. it's occasionally frustrating and i get a bit overwhelmed by it much of the time, but i think i'll be sufficiently proud in the end result and, more practically, it'll look great on my resume.
hopefully that's the kind of personal library experience you were looking for. i remain in the dark about a lot of the larger bureaucratic stuff at nyu, but i do really like my immediate bosses in the library. and speaking as an undergrad, i'm glad i'm getting experience in this field now, as it's consistent with what i want to do post-grad (not library school per se, but archivist/curatorial work.)
― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:48 (eighteen years ago) link
I did research once at Fales when I was in grad school. (I studied 19 c Brit Lit so Fales was the place.) The interesting thing about Fales seems to be that besides the typical special collections, they have also the downtown nyc stuff.
Geez, for an undergraduate you are getting a great experience, especially if you are intereted in going in that direction in the future. When I was an undergraduate I did nothing beneficial work-wise.
I don't have any experience working in an academic library. I loved those libraries as a student, so I thought it would be a good fit, but I've gone to conferences and meetings and etc. that give me a different impression of what working in that field would be like. To really find out, though, I guess I will have to try it.
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― stewart downes (sdownes), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
I went to UNC-CH for grad school (alas, not for an MLS) and loved both the school and living in Chapel Hill, so I would highly recommend that aspect. Most (actually, all) of my library time there was spent in the medical library--there must be some people who specialize in medical library stuff, yes?
Anyhow my husband does fine salary wise working in a law library (and he doesn't even have an MLS!), and my boss does way more than fine doing kind of managerial stuff for NLM, so salary prospects are not necessarily totally depressing but still best to minimize student debt as much as possible, or course (not that I actually followed my own advice. . .).
― quincie, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 9 September 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
To answer the question of the thread: I did work in a public library while I was in high school as what was then called a "library page" - shelved books, kept them in order, checked them into library, cleaned shelves, and other random tasks as come up with by head librarian. I liked it, but library school itself was exhausting, the program required you to spend time at school in a different state at the time (and I had just gotten married), and I couldn't afford to pay for classes. I do know four librarians who all seem happy with their jobs, and I've met one person who just graduated from the program I left and is looking for a library job.
― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 9 September 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.azcentral.com/style/gifs/1015fashion2.jpg
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 9 September 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link
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― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 9 September 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 September 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Monday, 11 September 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Is there anything that you like about your job that you could build on? For instance, if you like finance and management>>MBA. If you like databases and computers>>Systems Management. I'm not sure there is any MA that leads directly into a satisfying career.
― Mary (Mary), Monday, 11 September 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
We also have a penchant for booze. This sadly is not part of the librarian stereotype. Something needs to be done about this. We will drink you under the table, or atleast until we fall down from said table.
― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
But I'm rambling!
Yeah, Informatics! What is it, exactly? It was linked to our Communications Dept. (as was the MLS program), but when Informatics bit the dust this semester, the MLS program was sent back to the School of Education, which makes sense to me.
Oh! And ALA just slapped UB on the wrist, actually, for closing its Informatics Department:
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6363891.html
― molly d (mollyd), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link
This is what the ALA site says:
Conditional: Some entries have a notation of (Conditional) next to them. This indicates conditional accreditation — a status assigned to a program that must make changes to comply with the 1992 Standards for Accreditation of Master’s Programs in Library and Information Studies to enable accreditation beyond the date specified by the Committee on Accreditation (COA). Please note that these programs are fully accredited under the Standards.
― molly d (mollyd), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― askance johnson (sdownes), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
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― askance johnson (sdownes), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly d (mollyd), Thursday, 14 September 2006 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― -- (688), Sunday, 17 September 2006 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54177448@N00/244926428/
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― Mary (Mary), Monday, 18 September 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 18 September 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 18 September 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― youn (youn), Monday, 18 September 2006 01:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Monday, 18 September 2006 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― youn (youn), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Monday, 18 September 2006 03:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Ohio seems conspicuously absent. And what about Seattle? Portland? Minneapolis? Madison? I don't know anything about libraries, but these seem like places that would keep them well-funded.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 18 September 2006 04:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly d (mollyd), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Monday, 18 September 2006 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.majordojo.com/photos/public_library/DSC_0558-photo.JPG
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 18 September 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link
On the subject of the O.C. (and a new orchestra building): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/18/AR2006091801393.html
I thought this was a very non Post article, in that it was pretty good.
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― the kinkade fire (willpie), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/etc/game1/game1.swf
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link