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      Why master’s? But you WILL need a degree. Bachelor in Library Science, alternatively Pedagogy or Philology.

      It may seem odd, but librarians are pre-internet search engine. You tell them “I want I don’t know what, but something like that and that” and they point where to find such information.

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      Lmao, you need a fucking masters to catalogue and check out books to local schoolchildren but you don’t need it to be trusted with a badge and a gun.

      We’re so fucked dude.

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        Actually to be a school librarian you only need a bachelor’s of education focusing in something IT-related, plus whatever teaching cert your state requires. And in public libraries, you also only need a bachelor’s in information science to be a library tech, which is the one that stocks the shelves and checks out books to local schoolchildren. Only being a full librarian needs a Master’s. That said, academic libraries won’t even look at you if you have less than a Master’s.

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          focusing in something IT-related

          Ok, how? IT-librarian? I can belive in IT-related assistant, but librarian? In school? Where I live they usually have degree in pedagogy.

          a library tech,

          Ah. Nvm. I thought you said about only librarians.

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          I don’t doubt that. Handling large groups of kids, especially in the summer when they’ve got nowhere else to go, all while keeping a vital resource to the community alive.

          Admittedly that was a shitty way to paint librarians, so sorry about that.

          That being said, a bad cop can do a lot more damage to a community than a bad librarian.