What I Have Learned

Ok, I can definitely say that I am not much of a blogger. This is not my only attempt at blogging and it may not be the last but I will need to be more conscious of it in the future if I really want to become a blogger - and I am not sure that I do.

The real reason for this post is to say that the formal education of this librarian is coming to a close. I will be graduating from library school in a few weeks and am looking for a job as a real life librarian. It is possible that I could go back to school for another masters degree, perhaps in Gender Studies, but I am definitely taking an education break.

If I were to try and list the things I learned about being a librarian in my classes I would have to say there was very little. I learned a lot from volunteering at libraries, talking to librarians and students but learned little during my classes. Yet at the same time the classes were important, they raised my consciousness about issues, even if accidentally, they allowed me to meet students and librarians that I otherwise would not have been able to, and they made me think about how I would teach a subject if I were the one planning the class.

Now I am looking forward to learning what it is like to work full time in a library. I am interested to see how I fit into a library setting and how I benefit the library and the community I serve. This type of informal education is what I have been looking forward to since I decided to become a librarian and now I finally get to go out into the world and do it.

Now I just need a job.