Several years ago, Forbes Magazine listed the advanced degrees with the worst job prospects—and a master’s in library sciences was No. 1 on the list. Despite that gloomy prediction and some staid image problems, young librarians say their work is relevant in the 21st Century and is as needed now as it has ever been.
“You say, I’m going to library school, and everybody is like, ‘Well, aren’t libraries kind of over? What are you going to be doing?'” said 34-year-old Jay Granger, a management and library and information sciences student in the online program at the University of Southern California.
From How young librarians are figuring out the field’s future — NewsWorks
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