Health Sciences Librarian

Duties and Responsibilities: A health sciences librarian is someone who helps provide access to medical information through books, pamphlets, journals, tapes, multimedia presentations, and the internet.  They help health providers, patients, and student sort out through the immense amounts of information available.

Salary: $ 58,000

Education: In order to become a health sciences librarian you must graduate from high school taking classes like English, math, typing, and sciences. They must also take a 4 year course to get a Bachelor’s degree. You must then earn a Master’s degree in library science (MLS) with courses like, scientific literature, biomedical communications, bibliographic resource use, library organization and management, and standard cataloging systems.

Reflection: I would not like to become a health sciences librarian because it seems like a hard job to do. It requires you to get a Bachelor’s and later on a Master’s degree and that takes a long time to complete. They also don’t pay that well but it seems like an easy job but just the things you have to do to become one is difficult.