Next week, I will be attending the 2016 Michigan Library Association Conference. My first professional conference. I'm realizing more and more that it's at least as much a responsibility as a privilege, and that I'm not the only one going who lacks a Master's Degree in Library & Information Science. Still, part of me feels guilty for being chosen to go instead of those more qualified. Like I don't deserve it.
I do realize, also, that I have to go, because I wrote the proposal for and am the facilitator for the program that is up for Library SOUP funding. I am responsible for representing the program and the Van Buren District Library at the competition. But there's a little bit of that old imposter syndrome that I've felt in other professional situations, the child in the position of a grownup through some random mistake of fate. I can do this, though. Just have to put on my big boy briefs and get to it.
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AuthorJeffrey Babbitt, MLIS, is a graduate of the School of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University who is pursuing a career as a librarian in Michigan. Subject Headings
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