Go to library school

The director did write that letter of recommendation, and I got three other solid letters, so I’ve done everything I can possibly do, I think. If I don’t get in this year, I have also applied to two other master’s programs, so I will start one of those non-library degrees instead and let library school be postponed indefinitely.

I applied last year and was rejected. That hurt my feelings. But I have been working in libraries since 1996 and I have an excellent reputation at work, so I think my rejection was an oversight. The library director has offered to write a letter of recommendation this year. I hope it will improve my chances. I am also giving a presentation at a library conference, so that should be impressive on my CV.

Academia has exhausted me.

I learned very little in library school that actually prepared me for the “real world.” However, you need it to get a professional position, so there is no way around it if you want to be a librarian! My advice.. just get it over with as quckly as possible…

Get it over with and go for it!

...you need to know going into it that the much-discussed “librarian shortage” is a lie.

maybe someday, need to get my technicians diploma first

This was really enjoyable as we covered so many varied topics and it really helped me when I started my first job to have that background in the different aspects of librarianship.

I’m working in a profession that might seem completely unrelated now, but it was my MLIS that opened those doors. The world would be a better place with more librarians running things…

i fell in love with librarianship almost 4 years ago and started library school in 2003. i discovered that it’s so much more than books and the grin squeaky shoes . . . (rambling starts here) it’s about intellectual freedom and helping people meet their information needs and bibliographic instruction and collection development and finding out about our communities/contingencies.
best of all – it’s such a great place to find others who are actually interested in the dewey decimal system or library of congress subject headings or (insert library/information center related topic here)