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From: "Kaia Landon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Glut of graduates


> What is the "best" way to improve one's job
> possibilities?  Extensive volunteer experience?  A
> wider range of degrees?
> (I'm currently completing an MA in my subject, and
> have pondered the idea of an MLS, or an MA in Museum
> Studies, or Public History, or Historic Preservation,
> or something. Would something of this nature help
> provide more/different job oppotunities, or just
> provide more debt?)
>
> Thanks for the great discussion on this subject!
> Kaia
>
> --- Deborah Barlow Smedstad <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> "In addition to lower than expected salaries, I've
>> also known graduate
>> students who didn't think they had to have any
>> experience to get a job.
>> In
>> fact, they expected upon graduation to walk right
>> into a director's job
>> because they have a master's degree in museum
>> studies.  And the few that
>> did
>> "luck into" such a job ended up leaving the field
>> within a year, because
>>
>> reality didn't match classroom teachings."
>>
>>
>> I've never responded to a post on this list, but
>> this one caught my eye.
>>
>> In my experience of the last ten years, I have come
>> to the conclusion
>> that this is what I call "Gen X arrogance" is a
>> generational thing.  I
>> encountered the very same thing with several recent
>> MLS graduates in
>> that age group.  I had several 'interns' who thought
>> they should be able
>> to step right into a museum or art library director
>> position right out
>> of graduate school.  Needless to say, this didn't
>> sit too well with
>> those of us in the baby boomer generation who worked
>> for paltry salaries
>> for 10 years or more before getting that coveted yet
>> still low-paying
>> head position.  I had one intern about ten years ago
>> tell me that he
>> wasn't happy with his starting salary of $36,500
>> annually for a two-year
>> internship he was taking.  The rest of us raised our
>> eyebrows and
>> concluded that he was in for a rude awakening down
>> the line.
>>
>> I don't gripe that much about my salary since "I" am
>> the only one
>> responsible for it.  I didn't go into the field with
>> blinders on.  I
>> 'did' choose to get my MLS after my MA and it was
>> the best decision for
>> me.  I figured out the 'reality' of the jobs in the
>> museum field and
>> walked across the park to apply for that MLS.
>>
>> I tell people interested in the art library field
>> that the current
>> demographics are actually in their favor since many
>> library directors
>> will retire in the next 5-10 years.  There has in
>> fact been turnover
>> that did not exist in 1985 when I was trying to get
>> my foot in the door.
>>
>>
>> Debbie
>>
>> Deborah Barlow Smedstad
>> Head Librarian
>> William Morris Hunt Memorial Library
>> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
>> 465 Huntington Avenue
>> Boston, MA  02115
>> [log in to unmask]
>> (617)369-3107
>>
>>
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