>> You can go about it a couple of different ways.
When you look at the programs that are out there now some of them haven't really transitioned
to Web 2.0 I guess I could say in that they'll really talk about books are the backbone
of what we do but you can't ignore the online component and some schools still don't give
that as much importance as they should and they also don't really talk about instruction the way
that I think they all should in that a lot of what we do is teaching people how
to use all this modern searching capabilities and everything.
So when you're looking at graduate schools to go to finding a program that's really nicely based
that focuses not only on the traditional materials but also the online
and the instruction because so many of us don't have-- we've never taken a class on how to teach
and it's such a crucial thing of what you need to do for this job and if you don't know how
to do it you're going to be uncomfortable in a large portion
of your day which is a miserable way to be.
And so finding a graduate program that offers all three
of these thing I think is really important to being a librarian.
And also these days getting a second master's degree is always really important
because we're supposed to be generalists but at the same time we need to be a specialist
and so having a second master's in your desired field
of study can really I think give you a leg up.
So if you can find a program that offers a Master of Library Science at the same time
as you get a second master's in a specific subject that could be a tremendous help.
Not all schools are requiring that librarian's have a second master's but you're seeing it more
and more often so that can be a real leg up over the competition for other people.