If you're looking for a career with challenges, professional opportunity, flexibility and room to grow, become a librarian. If you have an undergraduate degree in liberal arts or science you are well on the way. Librarians work in public libraries, in libraries at schools and colleges and universities, at libraries that have specialized collections of art or music, in libraries at hospitals and law firms and businesses.
Some librarians direct enormous library systems.
Some are information specialists for corporations. Others are independent information brokers. Librarians are people who manage and maintain the world of information, and run the institutions that serve people's needs for lifelong learning. Not every state has a graduate school of library and information science, but distance education programs improve access to library education in many regions of the country through some combination of Internet, telecourse, and resident courses. Getting in Besides a bachelor's degree, admission to an MLS program usually requires a minimum grade point average of 3.0 or a B average, and many require the Graduate Record Examination.