I'm lost and need some direction forward

[shootingstar]

I hope I'm not thread hijacking and I apologize if I am, but I'm absolutely fascinated. I love books... what does one study while working towards a Masters in Library Science? What is a day on the job like?

From an accreditation manual for certifying acceptable library/information sciences university program: http://www.ala.org/ala/accreditation...dards_2008.pdf (p. 6-8) is of relevance.

In a nutshell, there would be compulsory courses on management, organization of information (which we can get into taxonomy/classification development, metadata standards= cataloguing standards) or information architecture (as the techies like to call it), etc.

A day on the job...depends on the type of role. Today included:
*discussing with one of my staff what needed to be done.
*preparing for an informal meeting-- ie. reviewing some best practices that I had written & cosigned with some other managers. This will be issued to our client.
*searches for an engineering manager and another chap on a particular facility building we were building...probably to clarify confusion about the contract terms
*checked in database backend to monitor growth, also if I have put in new user into the system to allow his access.
*indexing some documents with full-text conversion
*meeting with 2 engineers and quality assurance manager. Brainstorming for an upcoming meeting for client wants to understand high-level how all documentation is being organized. Plans to regroup again next wk.
*then HR manager wants to borrow that part-time staff member..next week..I said ok but we need her again
*search request for an obscure permit on watercourse that 1 government authority asked from another party..-found it
*more documents... of course many cover millions of dollars worth of contracts.
*explaining to another staff member how to save time from double/triple checking. Can't afford that...we are taking in 1,000 new documents monthly that must be integrated centrally. (& that's NOT including 70,000 accounting documents, 10,000 engineering drawings that our dept. will inherit in the end).

My present job is not typically a "librarian's" job but clearly it is information oriented, has a clear service and teaching role also.