Librarians will work with all age groups, and all types of requests for information. Those requests might be recreational or scholarly. As a professional, you will honor the validity and privacy of each request. Public librarians work hard to communicate with their communities. Public librarians become generalists, or experts in dealing with the ambiguities in the twenty-first century public we serve.
Service is the cornerstone of public librarianship.
It is possible to work in a library without an MLS degree, as a paraprofessional. Urban public library directors make the higher salaries. Through 2005 Employment of librarians is expected to grow more slowly than the average for all occupations through the year 2005. The best opportunities for library work lie outside traditional settings, working for information brokers, private corporations, and consulting firms. Working in these settings, librarians are often classified as system analysts, data base specialists, managers and researchers.