Here's some facts and figures to peruse. A answer to the quandary of whether Grad school is worth the costs involved...to be a Librarian. Please note the "wide" gulf in wages between what you earn with a BS or BA and the holy grail that is the ALA certified MLS.
MLA State-wide minimum salary guidelines are as follows:
Position (required degree) Compared with Hourly entry level and Annual entry level recommended wage.
Library page -- Minimum wage
Clerk -- $10.30--$21,424
Technician (High School diploma) $10.84 ---$22,547
Technician (Associates degree) $12.01 --$24,980
Librarian (Bachelor’s) $13.98 ----$29,078
Librarian (MLS or equivalent) $15.15 ---$31,512
Department Head (MLS or equivalent) 16.51 ----$34,340
Library Director $21.46---- $44,636
The difference hourly between library staff with a MLS and those with an BS/BA is $1.17. The annual difference in salary is $2434. Anyone care to venture a guess to the difference in cost for a undergrad vs. grad school? Well then if you can figure it up...you can pay my tuition and for the ulcer I will give myself.
You may be wondering what all these abbv. mean.....
MLA- Maine Library Assoc.
MLS- Master of Library Science
BA- ok I'm willing to venture you know this one
BS- no, not bullshit. See above
I should have held steadfast to my childhood dream of international jewel thief and beguiling chanteuse. Catsuits, sequins and playboys on the French Rivera hanging on my every word. Gotta work on that passport application...
Showing posts with label library school. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
"I'm on the Highway to Hell....No Stop signs...No Speed Limits.."
I wonder if I really am cut out to be a librarian. I am I OCD enough....are my glasses trendy enough...did hooked on phonics really work for me? I read a lot of professional websites, blogs, the musings of those in my future "chosen" field and I come away with a sickening feeling of unwarranted elitism. But isn't that what professional/corporate culture really is, just another high school like trauma only with real issues at stake? The hierarchy of discussion boards is making me feel like the electronic equivlent of a leper colony. My posts are not viewed as much as the middle age school media "specialists" or the "I have two Masters already..but wanted a change" alpha males. I have things to contribute, intelligent things, perspectives that should be acknowledged...
This week we had to list 10 electronic resources. I saw dictionary.com, google, pedestrian stuff. A few of my classmates actually had fresh sites, resources that the average ten year old couldn't find even with adderall, quality stuff. I had a range of destinations that could broaden the mind. Do you know how many of my "classmates" looked them over? 9 out of a class of over 30+ people. 9
9 fucking views! Apparently I am retarded and no one has had the heart to tell me for the last 34 years. I had better get into vocational rehab while there is still time for me to be a productive member of society.
In case your interested here are the 10 resources I contributed.
Here are some electronic resources that I find useful, some are more "scholarly" than others.
www.ehow.com
Tons of tips on "how to do just about everything" such as ; how to reshape a shrunken wool sweater, how to be Gothic, or use chopsticks. The majority are helpful...the rest are good for a chuckle.
www.nypl.org/links
The best of the web as seen by The New York Public Library. Links are grouped by subject, similar to how books are cataloged, and include Arts&Humanities, New York City, Libraries&Book Trade, History&Social Sciences and many more.
www.nypl.org/digital
The digital collections of The New York Public Library. The resources on Africana & Black History are amazing, the print and photography collections are superb. You can also download podcasts or watch lectures/book talks.
www.craigslist.org
Online free classified service that is tailored to each location it covers. You can explore sites for most major US cities and states as well as international sites. It's somewhat like Uncle Henry's on a bigger scale.
http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/
Libweb complies links to library websites around the globe.
www.pbs.org
Great resources for teachers and companion sites for most of their programming.
www.americanrhetoric.com
Database of speeches, lectures,sermons,debates and media events in text,audio and video format.
www.amnh.org
The online home of The American Museum of Natural History. Resources for kids, educators and anyone who is interested in learning about science. The site also has online professional development courses.
www.moma.org
The Museum of Modern Art; links to DADABASE, an online catalog of the museum's library, archives and study centers.
www.nytimes.com
"All the news that's fit to print" online. You can search the archives from 1851 to present day
And on a unrelated note....if Hillary Clinton wins Texas....I will build the wall between Mexico and Texas myself! Latino vote.....get a clue people, she doesn't give the proverbial "two shits" about you. Has the whole fucking world gone mad? I need to stick to taking sleeping pills so I can't remunate over things till the wee hours. AGGGHHHHH! That's it folks, I'm outta here, gotta check CNN.
This week we had to list 10 electronic resources. I saw dictionary.com, google, pedestrian stuff. A few of my classmates actually had fresh sites, resources that the average ten year old couldn't find even with adderall, quality stuff. I had a range of destinations that could broaden the mind. Do you know how many of my "classmates" looked them over? 9 out of a class of over 30+ people. 9
9 fucking views! Apparently I am retarded and no one has had the heart to tell me for the last 34 years. I had better get into vocational rehab while there is still time for me to be a productive member of society.
In case your interested here are the 10 resources I contributed.
Here are some electronic resources that I find useful, some are more "scholarly" than others.
www.ehow.com
Tons of tips on "how to do just about everything" such as ; how to reshape a shrunken wool sweater, how to be Gothic, or use chopsticks. The majority are helpful...the rest are good for a chuckle.
www.nypl.org/links
The best of the web as seen by The New York Public Library. Links are grouped by subject, similar to how books are cataloged, and include Arts&Humanities, New York City, Libraries&Book Trade, History&Social Sciences and many more.
www.nypl.org/digital
The digital collections of The New York Public Library. The resources on Africana & Black History are amazing, the print and photography collections are superb. You can also download podcasts or watch lectures/book talks.
www.craigslist.org
Online free classified service that is tailored to each location it covers. You can explore sites for most major US cities and states as well as international sites. It's somewhat like Uncle Henry's on a bigger scale.
http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/
Libweb complies links to library websites around the globe.
www.pbs.org
Great resources for teachers and companion sites for most of their programming.
www.americanrhetoric.com
Database of speeches, lectures,sermons,debates and media events in text,audio and video format.
www.amnh.org
The online home of The American Museum of Natural History. Resources for kids, educators and anyone who is interested in learning about science. The site also has online professional development courses.
www.moma.org
The Museum of Modern Art; links to DADABASE, an online catalog of the museum's library, archives and study centers.
www.nytimes.com
"All the news that's fit to print" online. You can search the archives from 1851 to present day
And on a unrelated note....if Hillary Clinton wins Texas....I will build the wall between Mexico and Texas myself! Latino vote.....get a clue people, she doesn't give the proverbial "two shits" about you. Has the whole fucking world gone mad? I need to stick to taking sleeping pills so I can't remunate over things till the wee hours. AGGGHHHHH! That's it folks, I'm outta here, gotta check CNN.
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