First, they are no longer called librarians. They are now called Media Specialists, and my wife is one and works at an elementary school in Rowan County.

Working in a public library would allow you more opportunity to advise someon on the readability of a book. Working in a public school is quite different — you teach classes throughout the day, attempt to coordinate with teachers who have students researching issues, and, in my wife’s case, also serve as the technology person who is supposed to know how to fix all things (which is really funny because she always calls me to fix her computer glitches).

Public libraries pay less than public school libraries. Colleges and Universities pay a little more, but then you have to be a specialist in a given area: history, science, religion, etc. Within the higher education system you will also be teaching various classes, usually in conjunction with an English class.

If what you’re truly interested in is making connections with people, it seems to me that a public library affords you more opportunity to do just that. If you’re looking to have a higher salary, then the public library is not the place.

Let me add that if you want to be a librarian at a college or an university, you need at least a Masters Degree in Library Science. I have a couple of friends that are librarians and they like the job and find it easy going. One of the things that they have to do is lead classes on how to use the resources in a library and to give library tours from time to time.

Because of the influx of multimedia and computer technology into the library environment, some places call librarians a different title. However, they are still librarians, cataloging and knowing how and where to find information no matter the format, be it on hard copy or on soft format.

Being a librarian at a university or at a large company will pay more than being a public librarian or a public K-12 school librarian and you will have a larger amount of resources and books to work with. At the university and company level, it is not all teaching classes. there are different specialties and most of the time you are not teaching. The lower level you go the more teaching you will have to do. At universities there are reference librarians, research librarians, interloan librarians, circulation librarians, reserve specialists and so forth. It just depends on how large the library is and how much specialization there is. At a major university you may have over 20 librarians working at the main library on campus.

A research librarian may work on collections in a specific field like engineering or theology. One might decide what books and periodicals to purchase for the library. Interloan librarians help get texts and resources that your library does not possess. the list goes on..

I don’t really know any librarians but my thinking is that if you like kids working in a school would be cool. Otherwise working a public library might be the way to go. I’m not really sure how often librarians give advise on books though. I usually think of them as being more a resource for finding things in the library. That might just be me though.

Go for the public library or an editing job or publishing. Being a school librarian doesn’t give you much exposure to books and they have many other tasks to tend to.

I’ve been thinking about going to work in a library for the same reasons.

When I was 18 I worked in a public library and liked it, but figured go back to working at a library when I got older. Now I’m older and back to thinking along those lines.

I think being a librarian for a research institute, a University or a large coporation could be interesting. I don’t think they get time to do much reading for themselves though.

It is a professional job.

http://www.concernedlibrarians.blogspot.com/

Actually, if you work at a university, you could make a pretty good living. You can actually make a lot of money and do what you like if you get a degree in library and information science. YES!!! I said library and information science. lol

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