I had an assistantship in the School of Information and Library Studies office, which I got after the first summer I was in the program. That was a lot of fun because – there were two of us who were... | More
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Buns and Glasses
by Jennifer Grant
I had been told by SILS that the average student is such and such an age and that many students may be going back to school for a career change. So I had all these stereotypes in my mind of what librarians are, what they look like, and what they do.
The first night that I went into my introductory course to library studies I thought, "I must be in the wrong room," because I saw these young people that were my age, looking like they were straight from undergraduate. I thought, "No, no, no. I must have this confused with a freshman seminar or something. This can't be right." I hate to stereotype librarians - I am one myself - but I thought everyone would be walking in there with buns and glasses!
It turns out that my class - in the fall of 1994 - had some of the youngest people in it ever. It's a product of our age. We are the information age.