请教读过图书管理员的朋友

[mengxingshifen]

I want a career change. The librarian sound good to me, but I didn't see many chinese librarian. Why?
How many years of school do you need if you already have a science degree?
thank you

 

[京华倦客]

去学校问，library science。。。

 

[ccc]

(the title should read ...读过图书管理学....)

You wanna be a librarian? That's great! Librarians do so much more than just read and shelve books!

Here are the basics one needs to do:

"First, you need to get a Bachelor's Degree (you already have got one.). What kind of librarian do you want to be? If you want to work in a public library, I would say go for English, History,Political Science- any of the liberal arts. If you want to be a LAW Librarian, I would say major in Political Science. If you are interested in being a Science Librarian, major in any of the sciences. If you are interested in being a Medical Librarian, again study the sciences.

If Children's Librarianship interests you, again I suggest the liberal arts.

Then, once you get your BA or BS degree, go on to library school for a Master's degree in library science. You will need to take some "core" classes like Reference and Cataloging. Then, you can take classes in your 'areas' of interests."

Note that librarians here should not be seen as those in China. They are next to faculty members at universities (and they are well-paid.).

 

[hcloud]

还是不高啊， 作为一个master's equivalent

 

[ccc]

不低了啊。按上面那个表格，最高可拿７－８万多了(2005-2007 data)。

 

[ccc]

这里对图书管理员和小学教师工作的要求，同中国大陆截然不同。能入这两行，不容易。

 

[mengxingshifen]

thank you! My friends.
There is the program in u of Western Ontario.
Going or not going, that is a question?

BTW, does anybody know the Chinese Student Association website of Western Ontario university? Thanks.

 

[ccc]

thank you! My friends.
There is the program in u of Western Ontario.
Going or not going, that is a question?

BTW, does anybody know the Chinese Student Association website of Western Ontario university? Thanks.

Couldn't Google help you?

 

[小鱼儿]

有朋友在public library做part time librarian，他的主要工作是对return的图书，cd, dvd分档归类；基本不和客人说话。。。。据他自己说，得到这个job不容易，他apply了 on line resume，等了1年多才有面试机会。。。差不多20/ hour。。。BTW, 他是本地白人，没有degree。

 

[ccc]

没有degree，是干不上去的，只能是图书管理员，不会有副教授待遇。

 

[dollyshan]

在不同city的不同的好几个public library遇到为数不多的几个亚洲面孔的负责还书借书的管理员，都年纪挺大的，大概有50岁了，英语也不咋的， 也不知道他们的学历，但估计和10楼那朋友情况差不多了，估计是老移民了，公民n多年的那种了。暂时在那没看到什么年轻的中国移民工作人员。

 

[京华倦客]

我想知道您以前的活儿得多枯燥您会想去做图书管理。。。

 

[W&E]

有朋友在public library做part time librarian，他的主要工作是对return的图书，cd, dvd分档归类；基本不和客人说话。。。。据他自己说，得到这个job不容易，他apply了 on line resume，等了1年多才有面试机会。。。差不多20/ hour。。。BTW, 他是本地白人，没有degree。

能拿到LIBRARIAN TITLE的必需有MASTER DEGREE.

渥村大学有这专业,可惜只讲瓜语.

 

[小鱼儿]

能拿到LIBRARIAN TITLE的必需有MASTER DEGREE.

渥村大学有这专业,可惜只讲瓜语.

我那朋友真的没有master degree。。。可他是白人，very nice guy, 就是混进去了；上班已经快1年了。。。 他跟我说，早早申请，过个一年半载没准有个interview, 关键是在面试时好好表现自己！。。。可能他是例外吧。

 

[mengxingshifen]

我那朋友真的没有master degree。。。可他是白人，very nice guy, 就是混进去了；上班已经快1年了。。。 他跟我说，早早申请，过个一年半载没准有个interview, 关键是在面试时好好表现自己！。。。可能他是例外吧。

I am not sure about your friend, but not all the people working at library are librarian．　Most of them don't work at public library. They work at schools,institutes and government.
Only two schools have the program which accredited by the American Library Association : toronto and western ontario.
For myself I gave up. It is too late to start all over again and the reasons for it were not good enough.

Thanks,guys.