Ultimately, students must place themselves.  The most successful members
of my graduating class (able to find museum jobs in a short time) were
those who applied as broadly as possible (national search, large and
small communities).  The biggest problem with small town museums is that
often, they do not have the funds to pay us enough to make our student
loan payments.  Museums with large staffs are also more likely to have
open entry level positions for recent graduates.

Issaquah Historical Society Info wrote:

 > It would be interesting to know if the university "museum studies"
 programs
 > give much thought to placing their graduates in the small towns with
small
 > museums.  It seems from Museum-L postings that job-hungry graduates
are
 > centering their efforts on the big urban places?

--
James H Tichgelaar
Registrar, Arkansas State University Museum
http://museum.astate.edu

"All we ever wanted was everything.  All we ever got was cold."

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