Librarians everywhere hate me

[Alex]

SJSU has a good program, good luck with your schooling. I assume you're thinking to specialize in reference work?

I almost went into a cataloging track (it really is fascinating at the structures level) but there are just so few places where you can really do pure cataloging any more that it seemed too limiting. If you decide you'd rather live in Hawaii for two years, let me know and I can hook you up with some good people in that program.

If you like the unsavory tasks, I assume you volunteer to shelf read? In one of my papers in grad school I included a point that reference librarians should spend at least an hour or two shelf reading in their assigned topics. Not only because it will keep things organized but also build up their familiarity with their collection. The professor thought this a wonderful suggestion. None of my fellow students (or working librarians I mentioned it to) were so keen on it. I love shelf reading, myself.