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Drawing a bit on the theme of the earlier post on adult education, I was wondering something slightly different.

I'm about to start a master's program online, and the degree requirements will mean that I have to have access to a college library. Tufts is the most convenient, but Harvard is pretty convenient too, as I work and live on the red line.

Anyone know anything about getting access to these university's libraries as a non-student? This isn't my only source of information, but we've got a pretty diverse crowd here and I thought someone might know a bit about it.

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cedarmulberry.livejournal.com

>> Actually, it's a library science program!

If you need LIS specific materials that are worth the hike into Boston: I don't know whether having random people walk in is officially allowed or not, but I've never seen Simmons card at the door. You just won't be able to log onto the computers (except the OPAC-specific ones in front). Things are kind of shuffled around for renovation, but the LIS stuff is on the fourth floor.

And Widener-- yeah. enroll, or get hired by them. But fortunately, there are a lot of other libraries around.

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prunesnprisms.livejournal.com

Simmons was almost my choice, but I liked the curriculum at Drexel so much more. Hard to explain--just the difference between Simmons assuming everyone wants to work with a public or school library, and Drexel assuming everyone wants to manage a database of digital data. But yeah, I imagine they'd be pretty friendly to work with. It's just hard to GET there from here--no Fenway parking, and the green line is a world away from where I work in Quincy.

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cedarmulberry.livejournal.com

If your near the red line in Somerville/Cambridge (judging by your Tufts/Harvard question) you can get off the Red Line at Central, and then take the 47 bus right to Simmons-- if there's ever somethig field-specific that you can't get closer by.

But yeah- parking=no go.

I actually come from a computer programming background-- I thought I was making a major career change, and chose Simmons because of it's professional focus-- but now I'm realizing that my interest really does like on the Information Science side, so there's a good chance I'll go on to a Ph.D somewhere with a focus that better matches my own.

So, yes, Simmons is a good school, with a strong focus on actually working in an academic/school/public library. But I think that for the techie-curriculum, Drexel is stronger.