work news!

[timepiece]

My promotion has officially gone through! I am a full Librarian, and I got a $4K raise.

Now if they'll just move me to my new branch ASAP.

Comments

[kill.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Can I ask you some questions about your studies and how you became a librarian? I'm thinking that I'd eventually like to do masters work in Library Science and wanted to see what you thought about my undergraduate choices. I'm still in the early stages, so my direction could still change.

[timepiece]

You can go into library science from almost any undergraduate field. With your background in medical transcription, you could go into one of the few well-paying library jobs and be a medical librarian. The other big one for pay is law librarian. But most people don't have any particular specialty, especially in public libraries. New Jersey has put together a whole page of information: BecomeALibrarian.org.

Basically, there are 4 categories of librarians: public, school, academic (college), and special librarian, which basically translates to corporate/everything that is not in the first 3. Notice everything that pays well is in the last category.

You probably want to check out the possibilities in your state - the best site would be the Washington Library Association. There appears to be a library technician title that I was previously unaware of, and there is a bachelor's degree for that.

[kill.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That's just the kind of information I needed. I really appreciate it.

[theotoky.livejournal.com]

woo! that's great! congrats!

[lolliejean.livejournal.com]

Great news! Congrats!

[graene.livejournal.com]

Mazel Tov! Woot! yay!

*transfer beams*

[lemon-says.livejournal.com]

I've been busy, so I'm late chiming in here. Congratulations!