Anybody work at a library? What do you do?

Anybody work at a library? What do you do?

I'm a librarian assistant, currently getting my BS, but I'm thinking about getting my MLS. I just don't want to be stuck living in a double-wide trying to pay off a master's degree with a librarian salary.

Pretty much same. I work part-time and am finishing up my BS. My position is civil service and it'll be pretty comfy if I can make it full-time.
Are you working full-time?

user, the only people I know who even attempted a degree in library “”””science”””” are girls whose rich dads have paid their way through it. But you should totally take out a loan for it.

I'm applying for a MLS.
Have never worked at a library and only the assumption that I'd like to. I need to do something after getting this English BA and I'm not sure what else.

Nope. I don't think full time jobs even exist for assistants.

Follow your dreams but most of the librarians I work with have been working for the library for years and get their MLS while they work. Some of them have their MLS and can't find a librarian position even with experience.

My mom is a library director with an MLS. I'm thinking about getting my MLS once I graduate. The nature of libraries are evolving to more community focused and educational rather than paper book focused. You probably know there's various fields of librarianship but if you're a male and have an ALA certified degree you can get a 70,000-100,000 if you're seeking a public directorship or 50,000-70,000 in a lesser role. Women are underpaid by usually 10,000-20,000 a no matter the position. Don't be afraid to take an assistant directorship or head of circle/ref/childrens because those often translate into assistant directorships or directorships. AMA anything I don't know I can text my mom about.

*circulation

It feels like it is almost worth getting my BS in business to make any money with a MLS. The gender thing is another worry of mine. I'm a girl and initially went to school for engineering and it felt like I was going to get showered in job offers whereas the library market is saturated with females.

Are there any specializations within an MLS that you'd put above others?

Try having some valuable characteristics besides your gender

Definitely get your degree in business if it's not too late. My mom got hers in business and she's sworn that's the best thing she's ever done career wise. You understand budgets, taxes, and payroll much easier and as a director you're more focused on the dollars and cents of libraries than actual librarianship. I'm a male so I get those shoe-in factors I mentioned but women need to separate themselves form the crowd of English, history, or sociology, majors who find themselves in libraries. At the end of the day, libraries are business and if you want to move up you need to recognize that fact.

Take any classes you can outside your major. My mom says she valued catalogers over reference specialist but if a reference specialist can show they have a catalogers class she would consider them more. specialize in something but don't be blind to the other classes.

You're probably right.
Also if you get your MLS you'll be set. You wont be a millionaire but you could potentially make 6 figures after like 10 yrs.
Working in a library is so comfy, get /fitlit/ and people really respect you.

I work for a library and it is very depressing, and often suicide appears to be more attractive than working in this job. One might imagine that working in a library entails having a quiet, spacious office in which to organize the library's inner layout, making sure books are ordered and delivered on a timely basis, overseeing new technology being implemented and so forth. I am 40 years old. For thirteen years now I have stood and sat at the front desk of a large urban library whose most loyal denizens are the homeless and the clinically insane. Schizophrenics are drawn here like moths to a flame. Alcoholics come here to snooze and disrupt. Niggers crowd the aisles and spread their toxic subhuman behaviour. I thought I would be advising enthusiastic kids what to read next, or helping elderly peasants become introduced to the world of literature in order to enjoy their final years thanks to the offerings of high culture. Instead I stand silently and alone as my miserable colleagues discuss their boring husbands or browse facebook or holidays websites to look out for the cheapest package deals. I am forced to replace urine-stained seat cushions. Forced to "kindly" "usher" out the bums who vomit on themselves and the constantly wide-eyed middle-aged women who start to scream and talk gibberish at a rapid pace if I approach them and tell them we are closing up. What a pathetic life I lead. I imagined I would be like Larkin, like Borges, like the kind of refined, reserved kind of man whose job allows him an air of mystique and glum erudition. Instead I am no better than a janitor who has found himself at the till of a supermarket. In 2008 I had a brief sexual affair with a student girl who spent a month here as part of her training to become a library. We screwed in the storage room several times a day. It was purely physical on her part but deeply emotional on mine. Eventually she realized she didn't want this kind of job and admitted she felt sorry for me and thought fucking me would make me less depressed and her less experienced. She is now working for a marketing company and is earning more than me despite being a member of a different generation. Please kill me. Please. Please. Please God let this be the day I am struck by a truck on my lonesome drive home. Let this be the night the niggers break into my home and garrote me as I lay sleepless staring silently toward the ceiling.

Have you tried looking for another job?

i hope you do die

Move out of the city retard

That's a library anywhere. It's the local homeless and drunk tank for the city and if you spent enough time in a public library beforehand you would know this. I can't say I pity you or your blog post.

God bless you.

honest question, why do people have to get a degree to be a librarian? what are you learning? it can' t be that hard to work at a library?

>large urban library

Found your problem

They're learning how to help people conduct research but in reality the only people who go to libraries are homeless people

what is so hard about conducting research that i'd need a degree for it?

There's nothing so hard about anything that you'd need a degree for, like any other field it's to show employers that you have the knowledge and/or technical skills related to the subject.

I like your style.