The official GC Librarians and Library Schools Thread

[Still BLUTANG]

omg, i never saw this thread the first time around. i was actually IN library school in 02.

i got my MLS from the university of maryland college of information studies and have always worked in "special libraries." i prefer to stay in my office cataloging, playing on the internet, or dealing with the electronic resources (subscription databases, etc). i now work in a law library but spent the early part of my career at a major national nonprofit.

even though now it's the "iSchool" and people are pressed to call themselves anything but, i love called a librarian. it's a great conversation starter and (in my opinion) less pretentious than information architect, search guru, research maven, or any of those other nonsense things people like to be called.

:-)

[Greekgrrl]

Originally Posted by Still BLUTANG

\less pretentious than information architect, search guru, research maven, or any of those other nonsense things people like to be called.

:-)

It's funny, my little brother's an architecture student ("real" architecture - buildings, etc.) and it drives him crazy when job sites list a dozen IA jobs and nothing in his actual field.

I'm not a big fan of anyone calling themselves a "guru" or "maven" of anything, unless they're with friends/being casual or funny.

I'm a MLS student at Pratt Institute in NYC right now (which is the oldest still-open library school -- 1890 -- since Columbia closed theirs) and I'm really looking to go into traditional academic librarianship, but I know the job market's tight. We'll see what happens in a year!