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you may well be right on that one Lynn, my thoughts were the
online courses in research and other related areas. I am sure
there is something out there though. Good luck with the search.
 
Drew
 
 
In a message dated 10/2/2009 4:15:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com writes:

Drew;  Library work per se may be on the way out. I went to Drexel 
University's  School of Library Science, and they had 'career paths' that 
had 
very  little to do with library work. My course work was mostly in 
information  storage and retrieval and technical writing. They also had a 
'path' for  setting up office information systems; that included connecting 
hardware,  software, databases, report design, etc. That was pretty 
advanced 
for  those days (early 80's), and many of my classmates went into the 
business  of automating offices.

Lynn Wigglesworth
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> Lynn,
>   With a MLS you would be qualified to teach in some of  the  online
> programs, I
> don't know if you have an interest in  teaching or not, but it is an 
option
> and one
> you can do from  home. I have friends in the field and like others, it is
> changing as  well.
> I was just looking at a page(listed below) that details  currently what 
> this
> degree entails
> and what sort of  current and future jobs one can expect. One of my kids 
> has
> an  interest
> in the field.
>    Good luck
>  Drew
>
>  
_http://www.worldwidelearn.com/online-education-guide/arts-humanities/librar
>  y-science-major.htm_
>  
(http://www.worldwidelearn.com/online-education-guide/arts-humanities/library-science-major.htm)
>
>
>  In a message dated 10/2/2009 12:51:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>  erthnsky AT bellsouth.net writes:
>
>
>
> Lynn  Wigglesworth wrote:
>> I can't find a job. I have  a Master of  Library Science but the
>> library won't even interview me   anymore (I've applied for 4 different
>> positions in the past  2-3  years); they tell me that I'm
>> over-qualified for an  entry-level job (I  think it's that I have a
>> better degree  from a better school than the  library director...she
>> thinks  I'm after her job), <snip>
>>
>> But I worry less  about that all the time (senility maybe?).  I'm
>> ridiculously  satisfied with what I have.
>>
>> Lynn  Wigglesworth  Tioga Co. PA
>
> I was ridiculously satisfied with my life,   too, even though we are in
> debt and the house is falling apart in  some  ways.  Then, out of the
> blue, a job offer came my  way.  As you  know, I start work on Monday, but
> I am  bittersweet about it because it  means I must leave my current
>  lifestyle behind.
> I'm five years younger  than you, but we are of  the same generation.  We
> both went to school  prior to "The  Information Age".  I don't know when
> you got your  Master's  Degree-if it was immediately after your Bachelor's
> or later, but   did you think about the outlook for those types of jobs
> before you got  your  Masters?
> I don't mean to sound critical.  I am in the  same boat.   When I decided
> Medicine wasn't for me, in 1983,  I thought I'd be okay with  just a
> chemistry degree.  I was  very 'green', as we say today, and I  dreamed of
> working as an  environmental chemist.  Because I  married and started a
>  family quickly, I never worked as a chemist right  after school.  I  did
> not get my first chemistry related job until 12  years later,  so I
> started my "career" late, in my mid-thirties.  It   hasn't been contiguous
> employment, either.  I felt like a  dinosaur  most of the time, even on
> the job, because Science, by  it's very  definition, changes.  We are
> always gaining more  knowledge, adding to,  replacing old assumptions,
> refining  hypotheses.    When I went to  school, there were 103  elements
> on the Periodic Table and maybe 2  experimental ones  that I remember-but
> they were not on the table.   Now, there  are 118+ elements, 115 of which
> have names and places on the   table, a table has been rearranged and
> 'simplified'...no longer are  there  subgroups, just numbered groups.  I
> took a facebook  quiz the other day  and almost missed one because I was
> 'thrown  off' by Group 17.  You  see, on my personal, trusty Periodic
>  Table, Group 17 is known as Group VII  A, which in my opinion, is a  more
> descriptive name since the 7 signifies  the number of  valence electrons.
> I guess someone wanted to simplify  the  nomenclature and just number the
> groups/columns across from left  to  right.
> Adhesives are based on polymers.  When I was in  school,  polymer
> chemistry was handled as a chapter in my Organic  book and pretty  much
> only dealt with natural polymers and the  simplest synthetics like  rayon,
> neoprene, PTFE (Teflon), Nomex,  etc.  It was only base  knowledge at that
> time, or at least  that was all that was covered in my  undergraduate
>  textbook.   Today, you can actually obtain degrees  in polymer  science,
> and it, like environmental chemistry, is a   specialty.  That really
> handicaps someone like me who is twice  the age  of recent grads to begin
> with.  I found myself not  just working, but  studying and teaching myself
> to think  creatively about the physical  arrangement of polymers and what
>  characteristics they would have based on  that arrangement. That's it  in
> a nutshell, but the possibilities are  endless and I often  feel too old
> to think about it anymore.  I simply  don't  retain knowledge the way I
> did when I was younger.  It   sucks.
> My point is, Lynn, who knew that it would be like this?   I  believed that
> chemistry would change and grow, of course, but  not to the  extent that
> it has.  Biology and the Natural  Sciences might have seen  fewer changes.
> Physics and the  Engineering fields seems to change  with the wind.
> Karen, if you  are reading this, I'd be interested in your  thoughts on 
>  this.
> I honestly thought, when I chose my major, that I was   making the best
> choice, choosing a field that would grow and provide  lots  of
> opportunity.  I never envisioned that it would grow  and leave me  behind.
> Maybe Lynn can relate to that or maybe you  have a similar  but opposite
> problem.  I don't know.  I  feel for you,  though.
>
> Bev
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