Me a Librarian?
While there's no magic test that will tell you if a library career is right for you, there are many characteristics and values that librarians and library workers share. Here are just a few:
- Enjoy helping and serving people
- Interest in developing and providing services, resources and materials that inform and entertain, such as books, movies, music, storytelling, websites, local history, databases, and puppets
- Thrive in a technologically changing environment
- Interest in information research, preservation and instruction
- Willing to connect people with a wide variety of value and belief systems to materials that represent multiple points of view
- Believe strongly in First Amendment rights protecting the freedom of speech and of the press
- Wish to contribute to the greater good of a literate society
- Want to be part of a professional community that encourages sharing information, opinions and expertise
- Respect and uphold people's rights to privacy and the freedom to read what they choose
- Believe all information resources provided by libraries should be equitably accessible to all library users
