http://www.lisjobs.com/CareerQA_blog/?p=563 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 02:26:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://www.lisjobs.com/CareerQA_blog/?p=563&cpage=1#comment-318 cathymls Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:54:10 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/CareerQA_blog/?p=563#comment-318 I love being a Librarian, however with this economy there are no jobs. I suspect it will be like this for a long time to come. Public libraries are hiring "library assistants" to do professional librarian work. They pay them $10 an hour with no benefits. I know many librarians that are not able to get a full time job for years now. Some have as many as 3 part time jobs just to get by. School libraries are worse. In most states school librarians are not mandated and jobs are being cut all over the country. Having said all this, if I were you I would seriously consider whether getting your MLS is a sound financial decision. Do some research and you will see that the job market for Librarians is abysmal. You might want to check out a Linkedin Group "librarians in the job market" very telling as to what is going on with librarians in the trenches. Good Luck! I love being a Librarian, however with this economy there are no jobs. I suspect it will be like this for a long time to come. Public libraries are hiring “library assistants” to do professional librarian work. They pay them $10 an hour with no benefits. I know many librarians that are not able to get a full time job for years now. Some have as many as 3 part time jobs just to get by. School libraries are worse. In most states school librarians are not mandated and jobs are being cut all over the country. Having said all this, if I were you I would seriously consider whether getting your MLS is a sound financial decision. Do some research and you will see that the job market for Librarians is abysmal. You might want to check out a Linkedin Group “librarians in the job market” very telling as to what is going on with librarians in the trenches. Good Luck!

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