Last week an MLS student interviewed me for a project. The last part of my reply to her was this: Find a job you love. No one goes into librarianship for the money. We go into it for love. There a plenty of bitter, disenchanted people out there in all professions. If you don't love … Continue reading If you don’t love what you’re doing, do something else.
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What programming should a library science student learn?
I recieved this email from one of the students in the Collection Development class I taught at Mizzou and thought in addition to giving my answer I'd open it up for the hive mind. I had read somewhere, it might have been on your blog in fact, that it might be a good idea for … Continue reading What programming should a library science student learn?
What’s the matter with our profession?
It's a question many of us with an MLS, and those without, struggle with. Just take a look at the Library Day in the Life blog entries. You'll see a wide, and I mean WIDE, range of variety in how we spend our days, weeks and years and our education levels. Matt Hamilton wrote a … Continue reading What’s the matter with our profession?
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