Posted by wendy b. on October 30, 2001, at 8:58:11
In reply to Re: P.S. » medlib, posted by Noa on October 29, 2001, at 18:10:38
> Hi, medlib--
>
> It is funny when I think of it now, but once upon a time, for a fleeting moment, I thought about library science as a career. It's funny now because I have better awareness now of how my organizational deficits would make me quite a lousy librarian.
hi Noa: You can work in the library profession without an MLS... I did. But the pay is less, and in academic institutions, you are a lower man on the totem pole, as it were, than other, degree-bearing librarians.> With the internet, databases, etc, I like the searching and like passing on references to people, etc. But if I was the one who had to actually organize info in a logical and user-friendly way? Hah.
No no. A librarian does what you like doing, it's the database designers who have to organize it in a logical way. A reference librarian would do just what you enjoy, looking things up online and passing it on to library-users... Maybe you should pursue that librarian dream? Ya only go 'round once, ya know?
Encouragingly yours,
Wendy
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