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[tmcg]

I have a friend who's looking to figure out what else he can do with his library-science degrees and his gazillion years as a reference librarian in the public-library system...besides work in the local public-library system. Any thoughts, please post away!

In the meantime, here's The Blog, posted by my pseudo brother, which looks like it hasn't been updated lately but is well worth a read at any time. I especially like the February 14th post. "Cheese-eating surrender monkeys" is a new one on me, but world domination through efficient syllabification is an epiphany.

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[fionagh.livejournal.com]

Sometimes certain media shows require a reference editor (my position on Babylon 5 at one time) to keep track of all their continuity issues. Sometimes this is referred to as a continuity editor. It seems that if I'd ever had need of a librarian skill-set, it really would have come in handy because there are so many files, videos, dvds, documents, newspaper clippings etc. that need to not only be organized, but instantly handy upon request. A love of detail, especially in chronicling fiction, comes in handy for those shows.

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

What a great suggestion! Thanks! I'll pass it along.

[fionagh.livejournal.com]

No problemo! Alternately, it occurred to me that he might also be interested in some of the stuff like the Film Society or stuff like that where they literally house hundreds of thousands of films in the archives. Or there's the Academy of Television and Radio or places like that to check out too.

A great book for re-designing your career based on your skill sets and things you love is Finding Your Own North Star by Martha Beck. A lot of the chapters of her book show how to merge what you like with what you know and come up with your own "information age" style job. Very, very useful book. It's what keyed me in to learning how to direct and stuff...

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

Cool cool, more most excellent info. I'll pass it all along. The only related book I knew of was What Color Is Your Parachute?, but I haven't read it so couldn't really recommend.

I've been urging him to at least go to an employment agency to have them evaluate his skills and give him some ideas. But I bet they wouldn't have come up with yours!

Thanks again. :)

[(Anonymous)]

He ought to look into information architecture and web site development--not developing the web sites, per se, but helping to frame how the information is organized on the web site. This is really big stuff and many places are finally turning to librarians for help with it. And IA is one of those fairly new fields where they're not idiotically obsessed with whether you got the 'right' degree twenty years ago.

Deb

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

Excellent suggestion! I'm passing it along. I think I've overwhelmed him with ideas--he's gone silent on me. But better too much than too little.

Thanks, Deb!