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Joel Stark

CONNECTIONS

GUEST BOOK

Robert Boyd: Nice job, Joel!

Alyce Scott: Congratulations Joel, and best wishes for the future!

Joel Stark: Thank you for your well wishes. Both of your INFO classes sent me on to a great start to obtaining my MLIS degree. I really appreciate your comments, and I look forward to using what I learned from each of your class to my future librarian career. Stay well and all the best, Joel Stark

Joel Stark

The degree of

Master of Library and Information Science

Virtual Convocation
2020

PROFILE

Current residence: Los Angeles, CA, US

I wanted to earn a masters degree because:

I work in a public library. I believe becoming a librarian was the logical next step of progression from my current position as a library clerk.

While earning my degree, my greatest supporters were:

My dogs. I am not kidding. I was spending a lot more time at home while I was attending the SJSU MLIS online program, and my dogs enjoyed the extra time i was pending with them even though I was using my laptop most of the time.

While in the program, I met classmates from:

I worked with classmates that lived nearby to my Los Angeles, CA home to working with a student employed by an American school in Russia. I collaborated with a student in Ontario, Canada to all time zones in the USA.

What I liked best about online learning was:

Not having to waste time and money driving to school and finding a place to park my car.

What I enjoyed most about my experience at the SJSU School of Information was:

That my brain still functioned, and I was able to successfully complete the SJSU MLIS program.

I plan to use my degree to:

Become a librarian. i would like to become an academic librarian at a nearby Los Angeles based college or university, but am willing to start off being a librarian at the first library that hires me.

Now that I have completed the program, I'm most looking forward to:

Working in a library as librarian, and the future possibilities that lie ahead as a librarian.