One Year Later

It has been a year since I graduated with my MLIS and I think it deserves a moment of reflection. Is it everything I thought it would be? I have gotten to teach classes, interact with faculty, develop our collection, and pursue new ideas and plans. What I did not expect was that the economy would take a nose dive and that libraries would suffer budget cuts and staff furloughs while helping more patrons than ever.

All of that aside, I do feel very lucky to have gotten a job in an academic library before hiring freezes were affecting libraries across the state. Good friends of mine are still searching or accepting positions that do not require an MLIS in order to be able to eat. While my position is part-time I still get a great deal of satisfaction by knowing my foot is in the door, and am able to use the extra time on my hands to get more experience teaching, researching, and planning other projects.