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I'm Mary Jane Petrowski, and I earned my Certificate of Advanced Study from GSLIS in 1994--last
century. If you're an MLS student, I think I would…the piece of advice I would share
is that it's always possible to come back and work on another degree. You might feel
like it's impossible to study everything that you want to study the first time around, but
the GSLIS program will take you back as a CAS student or a doctoral student if you discover
that's, you know, where you want to be. I came to GSLIS from what was then West Germany--I
had worked overseas for 10 years as a librarian and could no longer understand the job ads,
and thought I needed to come back and completely retool. So, what I really appreciated is the
School allowing me to receive a graduate assistantship in the Undergraduate Library. Because that
made it, first of all, financially feasible, but it was an incredible learning opportunity
and it opened a lot of doors and it was a great way to become socialized into, you know,
academic librarianship. So, the second little piece of advice I would just loop back to
is to say if you're worried about choosing a specialization, you know, you can start
out as a special librarian, you can start out as a public librarian, and you can make
changes, you can jump from one pool to the other. So just want to remind people.