How to become a librarian by Christin3

"It took a lot of patience but it's finally starting to pay off!"

How I did it: After I graduated, I was so desperate for a job right away, and nothing happened! I applied so many places and nobody wanted me...I was so discouraged and bitter. But I kept looking and widened my network, and started substituting. I started grad school in the hope that I could maybe find something with a master's...Finally a job opened up at the public library, and now here I am, a part-time librarian, but a librarian nonetheless. I hope things will get better from here...and in the meantime I am finally okay with where I am. Woo!

Lessons & tips: Don't give up. It's horrible out there, but don't give up! Just because it's not there right away doesn't mean that it won't ever be there. Build a network of local people, friends, parents in the field you want to be in, and keep in touch with them, so that they'll tell you everything they know about jobs before it's in the papers.


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Sep 03, 06:51PM PDT | 3 comments | 14 cheers


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Do you enjoy the work? I’m thinking about library sciences -

Sep 03, 11:24PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Christin3 early summer weather is the best!

yes :)

I think the best part was that, after going through all the bs classes and then learning all the nitty gritty of librarianship, I was able to put it into action during student teaching, and now I’m learning more than I was taught by being in a public library instead. You have to be a people person, you need to have attention for detail, and you need to love knowledge. I love knowing what the patrons want and where it is and/or how I can get it for them and make their projects easier/enrich their lives. I don’t have all the answers, but books do, and matching the information to the person really makes me feel like I’m making a difference. It’s not all sunshine and lollipops, but what is? I’ll take the bad as long as I can have all this good! Good luck.

Sep 11, 10:52AM PDT | Respond to this

logotrix is working

Hello

Thanks so much for replying to my question – very informative! I think I’m good on all bases except the attention to details part – I love people, books, knowledge, research – but I am not administratively or detail orientated – but I wonder if there is any job that does not require attention to details – I guess life is one detail (or “one damned thing”) after another.

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