May I jump on Cindy's bandwagon! Learning database design in library school
turned into about 75% of my current position--even though my business card
says I'm an "Associate Editor"! Half of a semester course made me the
expert on hand when my company decided to use a database to track all of our
projects and I'm still trying to fully figure out a design no one can seem
to agree upon.
Traditional library skills are still incredibly important, I wish we'd had
more indepth cataloging courses (sign of true geekdom, I know). However,
knowing database design and especially programming languages makes you only
that much more marketable and able to move into positions that are currently
being posted (go read the job ads!). I'm jealous that students in other
programs are getting more of the opportunities to learn programming
languages--those classes weren't even offered to me as an option (and I'm
not that far out of school). I'll be headed back for continuing education
as soon as the checkbook can cover it...but for now it's getting what's
available at the public library for personal education. If you have a
chance to take those classes--GRAB IT.
--
Abigail Goben
abigailgoben_at_gmail.com
Received on Wed Jul 05 2006 - 22:49:30 EDT