"A Librarian's Course" by Kathryn Klages
So if it wasn't confusing enough for high students choosing a degree that leads to their "ideal dream job", it can be complicated even in library school or when one specializes within library science. As told by a recent MLS or MLIST graduate from Western (in this particular article), Kathryn Klage's decisions posed such dilemmas. Her experiences include an eight month co-op placement at the University of Saskatchewan's Health Science Library, records management in Dohar, Qatar and now does contract work in Africa. Through reading Klages's article, the opportunities of a "professional librarian" is not solely bound to the reference desk, but many windows of opportunity (i.e. cataloguing, records management, specialized libraries (law, health, fine arts, business), the public library (adult librarian, teen librarian, children's librarian), also the management aspect to name a few). Her journey is one that "is never straight-it is a sequence of zigs and zags" (Klages, p.43).
Anyone have any ideas what specialized field in library science they want to be in? or a particular type of librarianship? and why?
Reference:
Klages, Kathryn. (2007). "A Librarian's Course". Access OLA. 13(4), 42-43.
About Me
- 1311_FayeL
- A second year student at FIS(Library stream), with much enthusiasm to graduate :D In hopes of a great professional career with perhaps children and reading! (the best of both worlds :)
Reading around the World
just one of the children's display I've done..
2 comments:
Faye, check out the poll on my blog- I am asking the same question you are- where people are headed after graduation.
You asked about whether reference librarians are restricted to directional questions and the answer (as far as I've seen) is - definitely NOT! And the answers to the three questions required quite a bit of digging, on google and in the UTL catalogue. I am learning that there are answers to every question, if one is prepared to look far and long enough.
( This will be cross posted to my blog)
Glad to meet a fellow librarian who is also interested in children's services! That's at least where I hope to be for the moment - teaching the early childhood reading and programming sessions at a small branch of a public library!
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