Subscribe in a readerAug
22
Major in Religion! Become a Librarian!
Filed Under Libraries
More often than not, people give me a surprised look when I tell them that I’m a librarian. I think there are a couple of explanations for this. First, as a male librarian, or guybrarian if you’d like, I’m definitely in the minority and it’s safe to say I don’t fit into most people’s idea of librarians. Second, there aren’t many Asian Americans that go into librarianship, so that makes me part of even a smaller minority. To be honest, if you asked me back in my college years what I wanted to do with my life, I would have never even thought of being a librarian as a possibility, even though I worked as a student worker in a couple of academic libraries.
The reality is that libraries just don’t come to mind when most people are thinking of choosing a career. Amy Kearns at Library Garden recently wrote about how she went from majoring in philosophy to becoming a librarian. I had a similar path and from what I can tell, a lot of people come by librarianship in a roundabout way. I wonder if that’ll ever change.
Comments
2 Responses to “Major in Religion! Become a Librarian!”
Leave a Reply
Same here. I got my BA in Religious Studies and now I am a Librarian. Amazing how things can turn around in ones life. I wonder if that will ever change as well.
Hey Bob, thanks for visiting. Let’s talk religion sometime…or maybe not