[Sca-librarians] Plea for off-topic advice

[Avice of Greylyng]

I can't think of a more qualified group of people to ask this question.

I'm in my first Term at Drexel University getting my MS in Library and 
Information Science but since I have to pay for this all myself I don't 
have the resources to take every single class I would like to and learn 
everything possible.
I have three main ideas of what I want to do with this degree and I'm 
betting there's people in all three fields represented in this list. The 
fields are

-Academic Libraries helping researchers and students
-Special historical Collections for researchers and students
-Internet accessibility for collections (specifically making historical 
documents available on-line)

Now I have a really wide background having gotten my undergraduate degree 
in Liberal Studies with a minor in Comp Sci and a lot of classes in history 
and lit. I really enjoy special collections and would love to work with 
historical collections (even of artifacts instead of books) but I'm afraid 
that I won't be as employable as if I had more technical knowledge which I 
seem to have a bit of a talent for.

So what do I concentrate on? Is there a demand for people trained in 
academic special collections? If I take a bunch of technical classes will 
they still let me near the medieval document collections?

I love people, history and computers but I don't know how to combine them!

Any kind of advice or observations would be welcome.

Avice
mka
Robin



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Lady Avice of Greylyng
Shire of Hartshorn-Dale
Avice at plaiddragon.net