If like me you have already thought about become a Librarian, the resume of this three articles concern you. In this resume, you'll find information about the task you could do, where you can expect to work, the skills, education and experience a librarian have, information about the salary and other stuff like this.
To be a librarian it's not like you see in the movie. It's not somebody how's spend all his day to read book and asking the users don't talk. You need to be nice and having an open mind to respond to the need to your users. You need to be someone how's embedded in the issues of our times and having a lot of skills with the news technologies. Yes a librarian it's a memories' guardian but for doing this mission they need to know which information we need to keep now for the future.
So, what they do for doing this role in our society. The majority of the job it's offer a service to their users and justify them decisions to the major, boss, colleagues. The librarian is a specialist of the information, he knows determine which information you need, where you can find it and related this information to you in the time you need. He's the manager of this big ship. He maintains the collection of documents in good health. To do it this part of the job the librarian mange the budget, do acquisition, he classifies, catalogs and weed the library collection.
It depends on where he works but for the benefit of the exercise we'll take the example of a librarian he works like Abby Hargreaves whose works in a public library, he writes in his post for the Book Riot site. First of all, we need to clarify a librarian can have a day shift and evening shift but the job are sensible the same, the clients changes but not the job. Anyway the day of a librarian start by look his messages, mails to be up-to-date. After, that sometimes he clouds doing references services, activity animations, support the staffs in their activities, exchanges information with his colleagues, manager. He can do research for new material, formation or more technical work.
Traditionally a librarian works in public, school, college, university library. You can also work like a specialist of information in the law, medical, business library. Actually, some large company have interest to hired librarian.
You want to be a librarian, you'll need to do a master's in science of information at a university.
Well, the articles whose talk about the Canadian reality the median salary his above $70 000. At the end of your career, you can expect a salary near to $100 000
A librarian need continue formation all his career. This formation can be conferences, certificate to the university or simply a formation given by the employer. Your better to love to be a learner.
It doesn't really have any dangers of being librarian.
Like the majority of the tasks of the librarian are intellectual tasks whose asking reflection. The chances that librarians will be replaced by robots soon it's not really probably.
Not any of the articles say what age librarians retire at. The articles say for the essential at the end of your career you'll can be proud to have provided essential service to your community to inform them, provide them entertainment. You were not a medicine or lawyer but you participle to something bigger than you cause you can say you have found the information this professional need to do them job and in his way I think that could give you an accomplishing feeling when you retire.
For now, I don't touch the goal. I'll be a technician library for yet. Maybe in a couple of years, I'll decide to continue my studies at the university. I could start with a certificate in science information. I could obtain a bachelor in record management degree this way and after that, I could consider doing my master's in science information. It's an option I consider but after I complete my program at the college I'll just take a break before start a new study project.
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