{"id":1952,"date":"2007-01-07T18:17:51","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T23:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=197"},"modified":"2007-01-07T18:17:51","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T23:17:51","slug":"a-new-chapter-for-librarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/07\/a-new-chapter-for-librarians.html","title":{"rendered":"A New Chapter for Librarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/01\/05\/AR2007010502187.html\">article<\/a> on the increasing diversity of people seeking their Masters of Library and Information Science (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Master_of_Library_and_Information_Science\">MLIS<\/a>) caught my eye, as it reminds me of something I have encountered over and over again in my library experiences:\u00a0 the wider range of experiences you have among those working in a library (from Directors to Pages to Volunteers) the better.<\/p>\n<p>There is so much more to draw upon from people&#8217;s knowledge when you are seeking information, or planning a program, or selecting materials, etc.\u00a0 It sometimes manifests itself in small, quirky ways, but the broader the range of experience, the more likely you are to be a well-rounded organization.<\/p>\n<p>Just my $.02<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.resourceshelf.com\/2007\/01\/07\/a-new-chapter-for-librarians\/\">ResourceShelf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article on the increasing diversity of people seeking their Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) caught my eye, as it reminds me of something I have encountered over and over again in my library experiences:\u00a0 the wider range &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/07\/a-new-chapter-for-librarians.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2928,2943],"tags":[3272,3021],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-libraries","tag-new-chapter-for-librarians-an","tag-usd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-vu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}