Career Paths in Library Science

While there's no magic test that will tell you if a library career is right for you, there are many characteristics and values that librarians and library workers share.

  Here are just a few:

• Enjoy helping and serving people
• Interest in developing and providing services, resources and materials that inform and entertain, such as books, movies, music, storytelling, websites, local history, databases, and puppets
• Thrive in a technologically changing environment
• Interest in information research, preservation and instruction
• Willing to connect people with a wide variety of value and belief systems to materials that represent multiple points of view
• Believe strongly in First Amendment rights protecting the freedom of speech and of the press
• Wish to contribute to the greater good of a literate society
• Want to be part of a professional community that encourages sharing information, opinions and expertise
• Respect and uphold people's rights to privacy and the freedom to read what they choose
• Believe all information resources provided by libraries should be equitably accessible to all library users 

Citation  

"Me a Librarian?", American Library Association, July 12, 2016.

http://www.ala.org/educationcareers/libcareers/me (Accessed April 20, 2022)