Terminalcoffee discussion

I know Jackie is.

I am.

Anyone else?

MLS? MLIS?

Anyone other of you ever worked in a library or similar?

Didi you like your experience?

I'll start:
I'm a Special Librarian. Yes, that's what we are called - I think it sounds stupid. Basically it covers any librarian that doesn't work at a public or academic library.
I usually do research for private companies but have also worked at a public and academic library. Mostly my "official" title has been something like "Market Research Analyst".
I LOVE love LOVE doing the research. You pay me, I find it and organize it for you. But YOU must write the presentation/paper/PowerPoint. For that is the part I don't like as much.
I also really liked my experiences at public and academia. But research is still my fave.

Jackie and BunWat are inspirational to me.

I spent a year as Development Director of our local library. I worked on the annual campaign, the foundation, some deferred gifts, some memorial gifts and got bogged down by a new software program to better our donor records/info. The software part nearly killed me. A great place to work, though! Wonderful employees.

I have been a volunteer with the same library for six years, delivering books to homebound patrons and a local nursing home/retirement community. It's one of the highlights of my week when I do it. The ladies are an absolute hoot and notice when I am one minute late, or early. I deliver two bags of books to one of the nursing home residents each month. She reads every one, and recalls her favorites to me when I pick them up. Amazing woman.

Cynthia wrote: "I spent a year as Development Director of our local library. I worked on the annual campaign, the foundation, some deferred gifts, some memorial gifts and got bogged down by a new software program ..."


Nice!

I'm not now, but I spent 3 years as a librarian in Kodiak AK. Also did a radio show with book reviews on the public service radio station.

Cara wrote: "...Also did a radio show with book reviews on the public service radio station."

Wow! Did you actually read all the books that you reviewed?

I am doing volunteer work in our Public Library, and I enjoy it very much!!!!!

Yay, Knarik!

Yes I did! Used to be able to read 2-3 books at a time. Not now, I don't, just one at a time.

Funny how reading habits change over time... you would think the opposite - that they get more ingrained.

I'm considering pursuing an MLS degree. I'm hoping to line up an internship over this Summer to make sure that I would enjoy it. Are any of you librarians in a country that is not the USA by any chance?

Josh wrote: "I'm considering pursuing an MLS degree. I'm hoping to line up an internship over this Summer to make sure that I would enjoy it. Are any of you librarians in a country that is not the USA by any ..."

Not I.

Welcome to TC Josh.

Josh wrote: "I'm considering pursuing an MLS degree. I'm hoping to line up an internship over this Summer to make sure that I would enjoy it. Are any of you librarians in a country that is not the USA by any ..."

Not me, either, Josh. I'm a youth services librarian in a public library system in Washington state.

Thank you for the welcoming, Jim. Also for the responses Zen and Jackie. I suppose my search continues, then, for first hand information on becoming a librarian in New Zealand or Peru!

I am coming up on sixteen years at an academic library. Almost 9 (dude!) at Circulation/Public Services/Access Services. Love the students. The books, well... kid/candy store.

Welcome to TC Carol.

Hi, Carol! I know exactly what you mean about being a kid in a candy store, working at the library. :)

Jackie's being modest when she says she's a youth services librarian- she is, but she's kind of more like the mother of all the youth services librarians in that she buys all of the youth books for our entire library system. Just thought I'd point that out.

I introduced myself in the toothpaste thread, but hi again. I've been an "adult services" (doesn't that sound dirty?) librarian in Washington state for 4 years now. Got my MLS in 2006. My favorite part of my job is teaching computer classes and doing programming. My least favorite part of my job is handing out one time internet use slips to people who have been coming in every day since I started working here, but don't want to bother getting a library card.

Agathafrye is a really awesome librarian, she's up on all the hip things like zines. In fact, she set up a zine collection at the Olympia Library of all the local zines, and not so local, too, I think, that has been super popular.

Plus, she had an awesome teenage daughter who keeps her in touch with what's cool and what's so out now.

I love the programming you do, AF, that is for teens and 20-somethings. Didn't you do duct tape fashion, like wallets and messenger bags, last year?

I worked in a library last fall semester, and I really really loved it. My official title was "Public Service Assistant," but really all I did was shelve books in the stacks and if anyone had a question, and no one else was around to answer it, they were stuck with me.

How does one become a librarian? 'cause I think that's what I want to do.

Agathafrye wrote: "an "adult services" (doesn't that sound dirty?) librarian in Washington..."

Yes. It sounds really dirty - which is why there's librarian pin-up girl!

Jackie, you flatter! Britt, you get a master's in library science and preferably work at a library, maybe a the same time, so you've got some experience. That's pretty much it!