Two years ago so okay this child is two! Is he reading yet? LOL j/k Parenting is the best and most important job ever. Congrats.

This was the next recommended video after your metadata video. I think it was well recommended as I completely forgot why I had originally searched for metadata and am just overwhelmed by the cuteness of your kid.

i loved your bizarre pauses with curious pondering questions. I look forward to going through your series. As someone with ADHD, I struggle on where to start and where to stop and my brain never turns off. However, every quest must have a goal, no? I'm really struggling on the why. why care about certain types of data and I'm hopeful that answering that question will help organize my obisidian notes to an actual library that is useful vs silly notes that I just can't seem to get rid of but serve no purpose.

I love the messy stack of books behind you in the corner. Epic.

1:10 through 1:20 😂😆🤣

I just love researching and helping others with their research. I do this for my professor and I am so eager to get back to it once our break it done. I just love learning and helping and sharing what I learned with others too! 😊

As someone planning a career jump into being a librarian, coming both from the insurance industry and nonprofits, this is so reassuring! Love seeing people’s journey into a new field and it working out

I'm so grateful to seen this explanation ❤

bisides librarian what job does this degree get? i interested in this degree

The preservation of information is fiercely protective of the integrity from both old and new storage systems

I'm thinking about becoming a librarian. What are the steps should I take or consider something else?

I am a librarian at a university library. I love my job. I study and improve my expertise every day. I always love and take pride in my work. Thank you for your interesting shares.😍

I'm like 30 seconds in but metadata is like the context of data? Meta is like context? I have never, never understood the word meta, but is thinking about it like that roughly correct?

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Keep your books in case a solar flare shuts down the World Wide Web.

Your advice is spot on! As someone who runs a library, I can say, the love of people is most important as you say! It really helps you get the people connected to the right books they want. And it’s a thankless job sometimes. The books are not going to thank you, but seeing someone reading a book they really enjoy or helps them is very rewarding.

Great info, Peter!

helpful

American accent is hilarious, why don't we just spell it as dada not data. Hmm madadada.

Thanks, Peter. As always, this is great content. Thanks for taking the time and for bringing us Cookie Monster's unlimited wisdom.

I agree and if we look into this more it goes into literacy as well. Most of those job positions consultants and specialist. It is changing some but very slowly.

To be honest, your statements are quite straightforward yet tricky to decipher. Thanks for sharing cool stuff! By the way, could you let me know which online sites are trustworthy to rely on when I need help preparing for my librarian exam?❤

i feel like librarianship is calling to me, especially its interdisciplinary nature. my freshman year of college, i would go to the stacks and find the perfect book i needed to inspire my curiosity and pull me out of my thoughts, secretly dreaming of getting to work somewhere like that. after my first year i got a stacks interview and for some reason, took a restaurant job that i hated and ended up desperately applying to circulation one year later and getting the position (thanks to my awful customer service experience) so, it feels like fate that i ended up there after all and made my college experience infinitely more rewarding. i began to prioritize my library job over my studies because of the sense of community among my coworkers and the satisfaction of getting to guide peers and community members to resources, even answering where the bathroom is 10 times a day was something i enjoyed. i loved the the variety of tasks: answering the phone, scanning books, navigating our database and patron files, organizing the hold shelf, searching for materials, i love the challenge and unpredictability of the day-to-day while also having some repetitive, more meditative clerical tasks. it feels like a puzzle and is so satisfying when i can give a helpful answer and make someone's day. my boss let us participate in the hiring process for future coworkers and we prioritized customer service experience over anything else. if they didn't have any customer service experience at all we were instructed to basically throw the application out. i am so excited by the idea of getting to promote and help maintain a "third space" for the community. i'm not sure yet which library setting would be best for me, but i'm currently doing an English teaching program abroad while i reflect on what's next and i'm trying to get involved with shadowing the school librarians at my workplace. i feel that MLIS is the right path for me and i'm excited to do more research on the best program! thanks for all your videos :)

I understood literally nothing out of your 5 minutes babbling. Your video is completely useless.

I thought libary was an easy to get job. Really making me rethink everything 😢

I'm applying to library school right now & I'm thrilled to find this video/channel. You're doing very useful work

Wait you have a tech background?

Brilliant

Im also library field💜🌻

Honestly i love books too. But i love them, because of what they give to people. Books give people information, education, and even access to resources they never knew existed. They help build community. And at a library, the most important job you have is working with the community, and doing what you can to help your patrons. I grew up at the library, because it was our third space. So much information, and so many community based activities to allow the disenfranchised people a chance to educate themselves and build strong relationships with others close by they may not have met before Not just that, but they organized events for our little town as well. Librarians are amazing, and do so much for the areas they're placed in. And a lot of the time, those things may not involve books at all.

When you say finish book three... You mean doors of stone dont you

Is it as bad as working a shift at a convenience store? I HATE retail. The wages and hours suck. No job is easy and without its issues but is it really that bad? You don't have to work overnight, the pay is way better than min wage, you get to take movies and books home, you probably wont get robbed as much as a convenience store, you could probably afford a studio / 1 bedroom apartment by yourself, plus you may get to use your creativity.

Do you suggest getting a concentraion or just be general?

A long video to justify a bad degree.

My hometown's libraries have male,black, Hispanic and Asiatic librarians.

Information is direct

even though you published this 4 years ago, this video was very helpful in actually *reinforcing* why i want to become a librarian. i have a master of public health, so i'm coming directly from the systems thinking, public service approach. i love books but honestly reading is like, my 3rd favorite hobby. i'm transitioning from public health research to librarianship precisely *because* i want to be more of a direct public servant to my community, and librarianship seems like a great way to do that. thanks for this video!

Thank you for this video. I actually clicked on this knowing I want to work in archives and be an archivist, but I was curious about this because I do love libraries and care deeply for them. After watching this I am still sure that archives are the place for me- but I appreciate and am thankful for libraries to the deepest extent.

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Oh gosh! I really appreciate your time for making this video cause I am much relate to you based on your experiences. I am poor too which is sad to say. The time I realized that this job suits me the best, I said to myself "I will take this! This job is for me! No backing off" .

I am entering the final semester of my MLIS degree and I have found myself leaning towards the Information Policy and Management. My specialization is in digital curation which I feel adds a level of understanding of digital information and digital data lifecycles

As a Black woman student, deciding if I want to pursue librarianship, this video is amazing! thank you

Thank you very much!

I have been working as a library tech for 25 years now. I LOVE my job. I find the new comers having problems because the JOB is not fully explained to them. I suggest if you are going to apply for a elementary library job PLEASE visit a school and see what the person does BEFORE you take a job and regret it. Also I tried going to get a bachelor's degree in library science but was turned down because I DON'T have a teaching credential which I don't think is fair because I've been doing the job for 25 years.

Hello My name is Tanu Rathi and I am from India. I needed your help.I want to do internship in library science. I have completed my Master in Library Science in (Master in Library and Information Science). And I have 5 year experience in teaching children.and 2 year experience in library works And now I want to experience the library. I love reading and studying plzzzz help. If I am eligible for internship then please send me the details and tell me what is the process. Can my visa be sponsored for internship? Please provide information. You give me all the details. Thanks and Regards

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What's the difference between an ALA accredited program and an AASL accredited program? Is one better than the other?

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Can I become a librarian with a HS degree and go to college again for librarian related degree? I really need a profession i can do the rest of my life and i really don't want to go back to retail. I believe Librarian related field is for me

The first point actually made me realize I want to be a librarian even more. I have some stubborn social anxiety and am an introvert, but democratizing information is something I’ve always felt very strongly about and even currently do everything I can to make information accessible to people who are in close proximity to me. I got nervous when I went online and saw that “strong customer service skills,” were a must to be a librarian cause I immediately got flashbacks to my retail jobs, but I think enduring that for something I’m so passionate about will make it worth it. I’m happy I watched this video. :)