By Nicole Troutman
Assistant Professor/Research and Instruction Librarian
Brown-Daniel Library
Tennessee State University

Introduction

I was thrilled upon being offered my first academic librarian position. It was going to pay twice the income I had made at the public library, and it would be in my discipline. In addition to that, it was a tenure-track position. This was particularly exciting as one thing that was repeated multiple times by my Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) professors was that being tenured as an academic librarian was possible, but not likely, unless you had other advanced degrees in addition to the MLIS. The dean of the library informed me that this would require doing research and writing publishable articles and asked if that would be an issue for me. I assured her that it would not because I love to write and had done countless research papers during my college career.

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