America’s Best Graduate Schools: Library Studies

I know what you’re thinking–I need a master’s degree to become a librarian? Yes, you certainly do. I’ve checked this out because I have a book fetish and harbor a secret crush on many a librarian.

Upon investigating though, I found that it is not really as easy as I thought it would be. Librarians of today have more going through their pretty heads than the Dewey Decimal system. If you want to become a librarian, you need a master’s degree, and the competition is fierce!

For Library Studies programs, you can specialize in any of these areas:

• Archives and Preservation
• Digital Librarianship
• Health Librarianship
• Information Systems
• Law Librarianship
• School Library Media
• Services for Children and Youth

Your top ranking graduate schools for Library Studies in 2008 are: University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, and Syracuse University (NY)

To find the top ranked graduate schools for your specialty, check out the other Library Studies Graduate School rankings.

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