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See: Librarian, Former, Part 2

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I started library school at the University of North Texas in the fall 2006 semester, excited to go back to school to become a librarian. One of my colleagues at work suggested I take the Web Development courses, a set of two electives offered that would count toward my total credits needed for the General Program of Study I was pursuing, and they sounded interesting to me, so I did. That fall, while I learned all about how information is organized—a foundational concept of librarianship, I discovered I had a real affinity for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which were the focus for the first Web Development course. I enjoyed working with markup and styling my HTML, but I really enjoyed using JavaScript to manipulate the DOM. In the following spring, I learned about the different types of reference work (primarily handling reference, referral, and directional requests), and important best practices for providing assistance to patrons. I also learned PHP, SQL, MySQL, and how to interact with