Tell me about getting a Master of Library Science degree

[rivulus]

@Sampiro

Administration of course is where the money is, such as it is, in academic and public libraries. A branch manager at a public library (and you can get a branch manager position right out of library school if they need one badly enough) will usually make around (this is in AL and GA, incidentally- I don’t know about other regions) $45-$55K starting. The director at the very small public college in “You never heard of it ville” Georgia made around $70K and, though she was 60ish, she’d only been in the field about 3 years. At the public liberal arts college I worked at in GA the director made about $100K and at the U. of Alabama, where the library is 10 times the size of the public lb. arts college I mentioned, the director/dean makes around $200K and has two assistant deans.

I didn’t realize this thread was here when I posted mine! But this is very useful information – since library administration is what my partner (she waves “hi!”) wants to get in to. Thanks!

[Plan_B]

Thanks to all who have posted. The information is very helpful and no doubt will save me a lot of time. I was hoping to hear that salaries and job selection would be better but it’s good to find this stuff out now.