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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2843382" data-attributes="member: 63">From my understanding, you have to attend a Masters of Library Science program at an accredited school. This takes, I believe, usually 2 years.As for the environment, I have more computers around me than books, but I suppose that's because I'm in a medical research library, where students, staff, and faculty need to get at journal articles far more often than they need to check out books. It is inanely quiet a lot of the time, especially since I usually work mornings. Right now, between semesters, we're lucky to get 100 people to come in on a given day (compared to, say, 400 during the school year).Still, it's a great place, and the reference librarians work very diligently to make the school understand that they're vital. Canny faculty members, and even a few students, are good enough at searching journal databases that they don't need our help, but the librarians do a lot of work educating users on how to do searches, and then on helping them do searches when they forget what they were just taught.I was considering getting an MLS, but I view that kind of like spending 2 levels qualifying for a prestige class that I might never take. I'm not sure if I'd want an in-depth library job; my current one leaves me more brainspace for writing ideas.</blockquote>