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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why master's? But you WILL need a degree. Bachelor in Library Science, alternatively Pedagogy or Philology.

It may seem odd, but librarians are pre-internet search engine. You tell them "I want I don't know what, but something like that and that" and they point where to find such information.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Librarians need to be trusted to do research to work in most private and academic libraries. So public libraries just follow the trend. Private librarians tend to focus on organizing databases, since they generally work with computer archives instead of books. Academic libraries do literature reviews, where they read large amounts of research on a subject and then summarize everything they've learned.

Most librarians hop between these fields a few times, and it can be very jarring to adjust to each sytem.