Posted by fallsfall on October 15, 2003, at 16:20:12
In reply to Question for ya fallsfall, posted by Ayla on October 15, 2003, at 1:24:20
Libraries are awesome places to work.
Libraries employ people of various levels. The gold standard is the MLS (Master's of Library Science) - so that takes 4 years for the Bachelor's degree and another 2 for the Master's. If you don't want to do all that, they employ people from High School diploma on up to do various things.
I have a Master's degree in Math (I am a computer scientist). When I am out on disability for depression I start getting back into the world by volunteering at the library. Last time I was hired as a parttime children's librarian, and tomorrow I will apply for a parttime position doing cataloging and technology stuff. Those kinds of positions don't pay a lot if you don't have and MLS. But they really are fun.
There are lots of different kinds of libraries - public, public school, university, corporations have libraries, too. So you can end up choosing what kinds of people you will work with.
Go to a college search site and find a school that has an MLS program so you can see what kinds of things you teach. Then you may have a better idea of what kind of work you want to do.
Good luck - let me know what you think!
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