Tell us in the comments WHY YOU ARE A PUBLIC LIBRARIAN?
- Was it your goal?
- Does it meet your expectations?
- What is the best part?
- What’s the most frustrating part?
- If you could magically wave a wand and work in a different kind of library, where would it be?
It was not my goal to become a public librarian. I attended college intending to be an elementary teacher and after I graduated I just happened upon the local librarian position. I really love it and it provides satisfying rewards. The most frustrating part is the salary which is not even commensurate with a school librarian. I would like to work in a metropolitan library.
I’m not *really* a public librarian – but I do work for government, and I don’t work in a K-12 setting.
1. My goal in library school was initially to get a job that would make free higher education available for the rest of my life – an academic library job.
2. sure?
3. My job is satisfying – lots of task variety, some difficult challenges, some decision-making, hopefully culminating in better-served patrons…
4. The salary ain’t great. And sometimes I get frustrated with my own occasional sense of complacence.
5. My ideal library would be serving decisionmakers – helping them make informed decisions through input from research and community conversations.