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the_q@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The fuck you need a master’s for? The dewy decimal system ain’t that hard. 🤨

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Because it’s meant to be the case that a librarian can help me if I need to join a correlation between etchings of revolutionary France and the poetry of William Blake

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Because most people who work at the library aren’t librarians. Librarians maintain and manage a collection, set up the database, etc etc.

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    • Syltti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You certainly don’t need a masters just to do that.

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      • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Managing a collection is not a data-entry job, it requires you to know about stuff. Which book on, say, the middle-saharan 17th century tribes do you get, and which ones don’t you get? Is the new one better than the old one? Which old works are to be digitized and which ones aren’t?

        Also included is actually running the library itself, helping people use it (from little bobby who wants that book about a mole who wants to know who pooped on its head, to a PhD student researching said 17th century tribes and what art they produced). It includes copyright law, information ethics, conservation, etc etc etc.

        It’s really much more broad than “Someone who works at the local library”

        Source: me, someone who once worked at the local library, and seriously considered doing it for a living… untill I saw the effort required and the pay.

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’ve been lobbying my office for a person with a Library Sciences degree to help manage our massive archive of Sharepoint files.

        “Haha, how hard could it be?” is the sort of thing that gets you stuck with a multi-year long stint in Library Hell. I can say this from personal experience.

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      • teslekova@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Think museum curator, not book warehouse owner. They have to make complex decisions involving knowledge about knowledge.

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      • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You don’t but it does gatekeep the position. Helps your job security…

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• applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  does it have to be a masters in librarian? ive got this engineering degree i wouldnt mind using for something a little less corporate.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yea its a requirement for libraries, Universities might be more competitive, since you likely need another area of expertise to complement your resume to.

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  • smh@slrpnk.net ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes, but you can work in a library without being a librarian. Check out code4lib. It’s a (free online) techie conference with associated slack channel, and it’s for folks that, roughly, code for libraries. Tbh, I think the techie route to working in a library is easier than the master’s degree. Source: engineering undergrad, have my mslis, work in a library, current position doesn’t require an mslis.

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  • the_q@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yup. MLS or MLIS.

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