It wasn’t long ago that I was sitting in my library management class thinking, “I have no library experience, how in the world am I going to get a job?”.

There were a few issues and concerns that were glaringly obvious to me:

1. Almost everyone in class had experience working in libraries or were currently working in a library;

2. Most of my classmates had always known they wanted to work in libraries;

3. I wasn’t able to join in library clubs and committees offered through the program to build up my resume because I was working full-time and attending school full-time;

4. I came from a background in the arts and didn’t even know if I wanted to be a “librarian” and if I did, likely not in a library setting; and

5. If I wanted to work in the library industry, how was I going to set myself apart from everyone else, who had experience and a story about how/why they wanted to be a librarian. [Read more…]