[Sca-librarians] Re: Sca-librarians Digest, Vol 4, Issue 5

laralu510 at verizon.net laralu510 at verizon.net
Fri Oct 22 13:00:41 CDT 2004 

This message is for Avice/Robin. 

-HI! I am a current student at Drexel. I know of another scadian who is as well. I actually saw you down at drexel, but I had only met you once or twice before up in hartshorn dale (I was an Ursinus  student), so I wasn't sure if I knew you or not. If you e-mail me off list I can tell you anything you want to know about Drexel itself, the prof's there, about the courses I have taken, etc. If you are intersted I would also invite you to become involved with the Drexel student ALA chapter of which I am a member. You can e-mail me at lg54 at drexel.edu. Good luck with classes!


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>    1. Plea for off-topic advice (Avice of Greylyng)
>    2. Re: Plea for off-topic advice (Jackie Wyatt)
>    3. Re: Plea for off-topic advice (Sally Burnell)
>    4. Re: Plea for off-topic advice (Johnna Holloway)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:18:42 -0400
> From: Avice of Greylyng <Avice at plaiddragon.net>
> Subject: [Sca-librarians] Plea for off-topic advice
> To: sca-librarians at lists.gallowglass.org
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> 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
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 05:53:40 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jackie Wyatt <vaanthro at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-librarians] Plea for off-topic advice
> To: sca-librarians at lists.gallowglass.org
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> I thought I'd reply to the list in case anyone else is interested- if anyone remembers from the
> Pennsic gathering, I'm the weirdo who's not employed in a library. :)
> 
> I'm from Canada, so what I know may be a bit different than for the US.  From what I've found,
> special collections/archival/etc. jobs tend to be harder to find and much harder to get- I almost
> ended up in an archives, but it's very hard to move around once you've gone into it.  Having
> computer experience is a benefit, so I'd definately suggest it.
> 
> Academic Libraries aren't too bad, especially since you say you have a Comp. Sci. background- the
> arts tend to be heavily competed for, but from what I've heard, working in an academic library
> isn't too bad. :)
> 
> Your last one mainly depends on whether the library has enough funding to do such a project, and
> in Canada, it usually doesn't have all that much.  You'd probably end up doing a lot of IT stuff
> as well in order to fill in time.
> 
> The job I'm in is called prospect research- basically I help fundraisers examine potential donors
> to find out if they'd be even inclined to donate, how much they might be willing to donate, and
> provide background information on them (all of this is legal, so don't worry- some even expect
> it).  Since I'm in a small institution, I've also done other research, such as archival and
> historical.
> 
> What I did was to take a bit of each, as I was not entirely sure where I wanted to end up- by
> making sure (with the help of my advisor), we planned out a well balanced class plan and I was
> able to apply to jobs in many different types of libraries. :)
> 
> Medb
> (I work at the Royal Conservatory of Music)
> 
> --- Avice of Greylyng <Avice at plaiddragon.net> wrote:
> 
> > 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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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:17:01 -0400
> From: "Sally Burnell" <sburnell at raex.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-librarians] Plea for off-topic advice
> To: sca-librarians at lists.gallowglass.org
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> Right now, the biggest demand and the highest shortage of librarians, 
> and thus, the greatest chance of employment, is in the fields of 
> Children's and Teen Librarians in a Public Library setting. Those 
> fields are severely hurting for qualified applicants because no one 
> wants to go there. There's also a ton of money in scholarships and 
> grants for studying in those fields as well.
> 
> Frankly, since I have wanted to go to Library School almost since the 
> day I hired into a library, but can in no way afford it on my own, it's 
> tempting just to get money to study one of those fields, get a job for 
> a while in one of those areas, then switch to what I would REALLY like 
> to do, that being Special Collections, when and if a job becomes 
> available. 
> 
> That would be my advice, having worked in a Public Library setting now 
> for 21 years as a Library Assistant (although in this library, we've 
> all been switched to more "corporate" sounding job titles, so here I am 
> called a "Public Service Assistant", which, when I tell people that, 
> they have NO idea what I do - they assume that I work for something 
> like the City Water Department or some such thing like that.....I'd 
> just as soon call myself what I am, that being a Library Assistant!). 
> 
> ~Saradwen,
> aka Sally Burnell
> 21 year employee of the Akron-Summit County Public Library system's 
> bookmobile department
> 
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:22:35 -0400
> From: Johnna Holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-librarians] Plea for off-topic advice
> To: sca-librarians at lists.gallowglass.org
> Message-ID: <4177D43B.9090502 at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
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> This is the advice I offered last evening. It apparently
> didn't post to the list so I will send it now.
> 
> Johnnae
> 
> First off, trundle down to the local LIS or Info Sci Library or
> go to the career counseling center at the school,
> and take a look at all the job postings books and at
> the various journals that post job ads. Look at American
> Libraries, LJ, Chronicle of Higher Ed, etc. Note which jobs
> you are interested in and look at what they are requiring
> in terms of  qualifications. A number of archives jobs will
> require a subject masters or a PhD. A number of cataloguing
> jobs in original cataloguing for a special collection or university
> will require two or more languages. Match what you are going to
> have with the jobs and see how you stack up. You may want to investigate
> internships and post degree programs to give you hands on experience.
> If you want to do archives or special collections go and talk to those
> people and the professors at Drexel that teach those courses. Ask them
> honestly if you are going to get a job doing this when you graduate. Ask
> them what you are going to need. You may very well have to work your way
> into
> the field and this sounds morbid, wait for the desired position to open up.
> 
> Good luck
> 
> Johnnae llyn Lewis
> MS LIS Illinois '84
> 
> 
> >
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