Librarian: Executive Summary
by Marty Nemko, US News & World Report Best Careers 2007, 18 December 2006, http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/061218/18librarian.summary.htm
Median Salary: $49,708
The Librarian’s Career Guidebook by Priscilla Shontz
Straight from the Stacks: A First Hand Guide to Careers in Library and Information Science by Laura Townsend Kane
Librarian: A Day in the Life
by Marty Nemko, US News & World Report Best Careers 2007, 18 December 2006, http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/061218/18librarian.life.htm
Next, it’s back to the reference desk, but you’re soon interrupted by a group of boisterous kids, so you have to turn into schoolmarm: “You’ll have to be quiet, or I’ll have to ask you to leave.”
You end your day reading about “automated librarianship”: data storage systems that let the public get needed resources without the help of a live librarian. Tomorrow, you decide, you’ll start writing a grant proposal to develop a computer kiosk that will help patrons find health information.
Smart Specialty
Special Librarian. All sorts of organizations need librarians, not just universities and local governments. They work for law firms, prisons, corporations, and nonprofit agencies. In fact, special librarianship is the field’s fastest-growing job market. Unlike public and university jobs, which require night and weekend hours, these jobs are mostly 9 to 5.
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