It seems like every couple of years or so I start to get the urge to go back to school. Most recently I’ve been considering getting a Masters in Library Science (MLIS or MLS or various other abbreviations.)<\/p>\n
As a consequence, I’ve been doing some research into schools, and I’ve found the following things: The school’s program needs to be ALA<\/a> accredited, or the degree itself wouldn’t be worth much. Which means the list of schools in the US which qualify is comparitively small.<\/p>\n And because I’m sort of snobby that way, I’d really prefer it to be a school with a good reputation in the field. So after hunting around for a bit, I’ve come up with 3 possibilities. More searching might reveal a couple more, but these seem representative.<\/p>\n 1. Simmons<\/a>: the “local” choice. Simmons is in Boston, which means it’s driveable, if rather inconvenient (and expensive, should gas prices shoot up again) to get to. However, depending on how ambitious I was, it might be possible to swing full time and finish in a year. Or it might not. It’s not the best school in the country, but everyone in the region knows about it, so it has name recognition.<\/p>\n