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June 6, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Things I Never Learned in Library School: The Backside of Being Involved

Librarians are unique in that they get to their degrees in a variety of different ways. Not everyone steps to their master’s right after undergrad- I know I didn’t, and I wasn’t the only one in my courses who took a roundabout path, either. That Guy and I married right after our undergrad graduation, and […]

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