Dear Library School,
I have a suggestion. Instead of teaching us useless things like, oh, I don’t know, SEARCHING GOOGLE, why don’t you spend a week teaching us how to apply for civil service and take a civil service exam. And to get a public librarian’s certificate. Because I knew how to do Boolean and advanced searching before I got to UB, but all this crazy public librarian paperwork is KILLING me.
Not a lot of love,
Me
I am a recent library school graduate from Oregon and I am moving to upstate New York soon. I’m not used to the New York system of civil service exams and certifications. Since your program did not educate you about how to pass these tests, what have you done to learn about how to fill out the paperwork and pass the tests etc.? I am not finding much online about what the content of either of these types of exams (certification, civil service) and so I’m not sure how to prepare for them.