This blog has MOVED

Hi everyone! This blog has moved! Please come and check it out – I got tired of managing 2 blogs at once and decided to bring everything together. So, if you’re so inclined, come read over at this blog’s new home 🙂

Here you will find Library-related issues and discussion, photography, poetry, and my musings as an editor for an up-and-coming literature magazine. Exciting things are happening.

What does a librarian do, exactly?

This has been a question my family has been asking me for quite some time now.  And frankly, I am not sure what to tell them.  Through my first semester at Clarion University of Pennsylvania’s MLS program, I have found that librarians do EVERYTHING.

It seems that our work is never done.  It could be anything from showing someone where the bathroom is, to creating an entire presentation for a panel discussion for a conference 5,000 miles away.  The job itself is so diverse that I cannot really pin-point what a librarian does “exactly.”

It is for that reason that I am very excited to get into the field for the simple fact that I like the idea of free information sharing, teaching people how to do research, and for my own personal growth.  So, I welcome you to my adventures through library school as I manage juggling work, raising my daughter, and [eventually] receiving my MLS to embark on my career in academic librarianship.