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Blog: My Year as a Librarianship Student

Blog: My Year as a Librarianship Student

By Fernando Bravo 

Fernando studied Librianship in 2019/20

Hello everyone, I am writing this text for prospective students interested in the University of Sheffield Information School. I’m a mature and international student who planned to study the MA Librarianship a long time ago after working some years in University, Public and National Libraries. The time here has been challenging, the overall course is one of the best in the world and with a very good reputation between the librarian community, certified for one of the most important professional associations in the world. U.K library information association: CILIP.


During the course I have had the opportunity to assist activities related to my field, for instance, a Reference Training Session in the British Library in London, a session in Manchester with new professionals, also in Sheffield I visited the headquarters of the Children Library Service and the children book award, as well as knowing in depth some university library systems such as Halllam, Sheffield and Leeds Universities. 


From my interest, the modules are updated and for me, the Management in LIS was very important due to my own goals, my future plan is to return to my job in my country and develop projects related with electronic legal deposit, information literacy and training session for library staff, in this sense the access to the key literature and databases in Library and Information Science give me the chance to discover more resources and a hundred of journals (LISA - EBSCO). The library system - with a 24/7 opening hours - has a special librarian assigned for our department and the iSchool has a special database with publications produced by staff and students from 1963 onward!


Sheffield as a city is so comfortable, walkable with a majestic nature and sound of birds everywhere, beautiful parks around the University and also you can travel to other nearby cities such as Manchester, Liverpool, York, etc. In my free time, I used the Sports Centre that gave me access to the swimming pool, gym and sauna to keep healthy and improve my mood during hard study periods. 

Definitively, if someone else is looking for the MA Librarianship, the Information School is the perfect place where you can find a very challenging time with a lot of new opportunities for your future or current job in the information world, improving your knowledge and skills base with a valuable certification. 

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