How You Too Can Transition from a Librarian to a Doctoral Student

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5 responses to “How You Too Can Transition from a Librarian to a Doctoral Student”

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   2013-09-05

   tribigild

   I enjoyed reading your post on Doctoral study, it was very informative. I’m actually looking to study my Master’s in the USA (I looked into FSU but ruled it out due to their lack of funding opportunities for international students – http://pinterest.com/tribigild/florida-state-university/) and it’s funny because I thought to myself only a couple of days ago that if I really enjoyed studying abroad and doing research in Information Science, there’s always the option to do a PhD later in life, and then I read your post (I’ve never read one before directed at people considering a PhD), and I don’t believe in signs or anything but I thought that was good timing! Anyway, that’s way way into the future but I just wanted to let you know that I found what you wrote very helpful and in a way, reassuring, that you can give up practice and go into research later in life if you want. So thank you!

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      2013-09-06

      Abigail Phillips

      I’m very glad that you found my post helpful! What other schools are you looking at for your MLIS? Unfortunately, my school is having some funding issues (like most universities). What are your research interests in the information science field? I would definitely encourage you to keep thinking about a PhD. Especially in our field, there are a lot of students who join a doctoral program after working for some time as a librarian.

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         2013-09-10

         tribigild

         My top choice has always been Rutgers, then followed by either Indiana University of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. What’s exciting for me is at this point, I have no particular research interests because I don’t know exactly which field I want to specialise in, so I’m hoping the MLIS is going to show me what my interests are. So far, I’ve only worked in an academic library, so I’m looking forward to learning more about other sectors. One of the many bonuses of wanting to do the American qualification is that your Master’s is much broader than ours – over here a Librarianship degree is entirely seperate to an Archiving degree, so if you were somewhat interested in that field, you’d have to choose to separate yourself right from the offset.

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         2013-09-12

         Abigail Phillips

         Rutgers is a fantastic school! Our interim Director is from Rutgers. I’m not familiar with the MLIS program at the University of Wisconsin’s program.

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   2013-09-10

   tribigild

   *OR the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, not ‘of’ sorry.

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