Thursday, May 22, 2008
Beginnings
Oh life is great. Last Saturday I went through my commencement ceremony at St.Kate's and officially received my degree and the Lemon colored hood that goes with getting a Master's in Library and Information Science. On Tuesday I interviewed for a library position...I was NERVOUS and felt that many of my answers lacked intelligence and depth so fearing the worst I've been moping around the house since Tuesday. Today to my relief, I was offered the position I interviewed for and am excited to say that on June 16 I will start my new job as an Interlibrary Loan Librarian for Saint Mary's University in Winona, MN! :) I feel great right now...mostly because I finally get to move my belongings out of storage and into my own place!!!! Who knew the idea of paying rent again would be so EXCITING!
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
2 years, really? it's been 2 years!!!
An end and hopefully soon a beginning. After 2 years I have finished my Masters in Library and Information Science. My last class was 2 weeks ago and in 2 weeks I will go through the commencement ceremony to get my hood!
It feels great to be finished, and it's hard to believe - 2 years can go by so fast and yet I feel exhausted from the last 2 years. My undergrad was in organizational communication and the classes were more like business classes - a lot of human resource stuff - hiring, training, leading. A masters in library science is all about being a librarian - completely different from my undergrad. So I had a lot to learn, a lot to read, a lot of acclimating myself to a new career field. My career experience in retail management may have made me adaptable to change and skilled at assessing situations and problem solving but it did not involve the amount of technology that librarians deal with! I am amazed at everything I have learned in 2 years and proud of the improvement I have made in my skills.
I always knew I'd go on to grad school - mostly because of my sheer will and love of school. I love to read, do research, write papers, present at conferences and because of this one of my professors made me promise to go on to grad school. Out of around 30 of us I was one of 2 people that she expected would go on to grad school.
As I end grad school I find myself thinking back to why I started it, specifically why I chose to become a librarian. I chose library science for a few reasons - I love libraries, grew up going to them all the time. In high school one of my best friends parents were librarians and I always thought they were the most knowledgeable people I knew - they were well informed and interesting to talk to. Emily always knew she'd be a librarian (and she is one now!) and I started entertaining the thought of being one myself. An even more significant reason for becoming a librarian was because my Grandma was a head librarian for a small public library and my Mom was a library paraprofessional for 17(?) years - neither of them went to school for library science, it was just a natural fit for both. I'm a lot like both of them, I have a lot of their skills and personality traits so I knew I would enjoy being a librarian because they both felt very fulfilled in their work.
When I was a sophomore in college I told my Grandma I was considering library science - that I thought maybe I'd be a librarian someday. She told me she thought I'd make a fine librarian and that I would enjoy it. My Grandma never gave fluff as an answer so I knew she was telling me the truth. She would be ecstatic to hear how library's and librarians have changed over the years.
After my very first class in grad school I remember driving home and thinking to myself, "wow, I finally understand that feeling of knowing this is right" Usually it's a couple that is referring to their first meeting and how they knew they were the one and then they end up getting married. Well that's how it was on my first night of class, I knew this career was the one for me - I found my calling, my destiny, my passion.
It feels great to be finished, and it's hard to believe - 2 years can go by so fast and yet I feel exhausted from the last 2 years. My undergrad was in organizational communication and the classes were more like business classes - a lot of human resource stuff - hiring, training, leading. A masters in library science is all about being a librarian - completely different from my undergrad. So I had a lot to learn, a lot to read, a lot of acclimating myself to a new career field. My career experience in retail management may have made me adaptable to change and skilled at assessing situations and problem solving but it did not involve the amount of technology that librarians deal with! I am amazed at everything I have learned in 2 years and proud of the improvement I have made in my skills.
I always knew I'd go on to grad school - mostly because of my sheer will and love of school. I love to read, do research, write papers, present at conferences and because of this one of my professors made me promise to go on to grad school. Out of around 30 of us I was one of 2 people that she expected would go on to grad school.
As I end grad school I find myself thinking back to why I started it, specifically why I chose to become a librarian. I chose library science for a few reasons - I love libraries, grew up going to them all the time. In high school one of my best friends parents were librarians and I always thought they were the most knowledgeable people I knew - they were well informed and interesting to talk to. Emily always knew she'd be a librarian (and she is one now!) and I started entertaining the thought of being one myself. An even more significant reason for becoming a librarian was because my Grandma was a head librarian for a small public library and my Mom was a library paraprofessional for 17(?) years - neither of them went to school for library science, it was just a natural fit for both. I'm a lot like both of them, I have a lot of their skills and personality traits so I knew I would enjoy being a librarian because they both felt very fulfilled in their work.
When I was a sophomore in college I told my Grandma I was considering library science - that I thought maybe I'd be a librarian someday. She told me she thought I'd make a fine librarian and that I would enjoy it. My Grandma never gave fluff as an answer so I knew she was telling me the truth. She would be ecstatic to hear how library's and librarians have changed over the years.
After my very first class in grad school I remember driving home and thinking to myself, "wow, I finally understand that feeling of knowing this is right" Usually it's a couple that is referring to their first meeting and how they knew they were the one and then they end up getting married. Well that's how it was on my first night of class, I knew this career was the one for me - I found my calling, my destiny, my passion.
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