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2. Education for librarianship - Wikipedia

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   Education for librarianship, including for paraprofessional library workers, varies around the world, and has changed over time. In recent decades, many institutions offering librarianship education have changed their names to reflect the shift from print media to electronic media, and to information contained outside of traditional libraries.

3. Library technician - Wikipedia

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   Library technicians differ from librarians in terms of education and main duties. Library technicians typically require a diploma, or, ideally, an associate degree in library technology from a community college or other similar institution, whereas librarians require a master's degree in library science from an accredited university-based graduate school of library and information science.

4. Librarian - Wikipedia

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   The library at Gallaudet University, the only Deaf liberal arts university in the United States, was founded in 1876. The library's collection has grown from a small number of reference books to the world's largest collection of deaf-related materials with over 234,000 books and thousands of other materials in different formats.

5. Public library - Wikipedia

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   The culmination of centuries of advances in the printing press, moveable type, paper, ink, publishing, and distribution, combined with an ever-growing information-oriented middle class, increased commercial activity and consumption, new radical ideas, massive population growth and higher literacy rates forged the public library into the form that it is today.

6. Diversity in librarianship - Wikipedia

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   The majority of librarians working in the U.S. are female, between the ages of 55–64, and Caucasian. [1] A 2014 study by the American Library Association of research done from 2009 to 2010 shows that 98,273 of credentialed librarians were female while 20,393 were male. 15,335 of the total 111,666 were 35 and younger and only 6,222 were 65 or older. 104,393 were white; 6,160 African American ...

7. Library of Congress - Wikipedia

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   The Library of Congress (LOC) is a ... Despite his new job, Stephenson focused on the war. ... The library has made some of these available on the Internet for free ...