Career Info
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
- Find a Job in 10 Minutes a Day
LIScareer.com — Find a Job in 10 Minutes a Day: Persistent Job Search Via an Aggregator by Sara R. Paul
Excellent advise on finding stuff outside of normal library circles.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
- LibraryCareers.org
LibraryCareers.org is a new ALA site for people interested in becoming librarians.
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
- Your First Year on the Tenure Track
Your First Year on the Tenure Track: Temperamental Advice for Junior Faculty in Toxic Work Environments
…though my experiences are extraordinary, I believe they could also be shared by others grimly attempting to survive the circumstances of their own dysfunctional workplaces. What you will find in this article is slightly hyperbolic advice wrought from harsh experience [...]
Monday, August 8, 2005
- Job Hunting Advice
Don’t you know, I was planning on writing about getting my job and someone else got to it first. But there are a couple of things that came up for me that wouldn’t have for Chad.
But first I have to agree that you’re most important asset is flexibility. I figured out what my basic needs [...]
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
- Communication Skills for Managers
PLA Blog - The Official Blog of the Public Library Association:Communication Skills for Managers
David Orenstein’s presentation, in his own words, was a “little schizophrenic.” Schizophrenic or not, he had some excellent information to share that he’s garnered over several years of management experience.
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
- Click University
SLA 2005 Conference Blog: Go Back to School at Click University
With a crowd of more than 150 looking on, SLA Monday opened its newest member service, Click University.
Click U is an online learning community for continuing professional education for knowledge workers around the world. It is designed to train librarians and information professionals in core [...]
Thursday, May 19, 2005
- Public Library Salary Survey
Tinfoil + Raccoon: Public Library Salary Survey
Michael (Library Dust) McGrorty has been working hard as of late, and, as a result has posted a starting salary survey for the 30 largest US library systems.
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
- Caveat Lector » More job-search follies
Dorothea has posted a list of places to hunt for library jobs online.
Thursday, March 17, 2005
- LibraryTechtonics: Presentation tips
LibraryTechtonics: Presentation tips
Because everyone needs to present sooner or later.
Thursday, December 16, 2004
- Dec LIScareer
LIScareer keeps offering great information and advice for both sides of the hiring process.
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
- The Librarian’s Career Guidebook
LIScareer News: The Librarian’s Career Guidebook is now available!
Are you trying to break into a career in library science or improve your current position? In The Librarian’s Career Guidebook, 63 information professionals from diverse positions, workplaces, and regions discuss a variety of career issues and offer advice to prospective librarians, MLS students, and librarians in [...]
Monday, November 8, 2004
- Job Strategies
Off to a Good Start: Strategies for Your First Year in a New Job
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
- Oct 2004 LIScareer Articles
The Oct 2004 LIScareer Articles have been posted. Information for new and not so new liberarians.
Friday, October 22, 2004
- Gary Price Interview
Gary Price answers some very relevant questions on librarianship today and how we should go from here.
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
- Newbie Blues
It all seems to have started with Fixing the First Job and snowballed from there. In the last few days there have been several posts about the plight of new librarians as they head out into the professional world. For those who like me have gotten lost without a scorecard I’ve compiled the list below [...]
Friday, October 15, 2004
- Temping
LibraryTechtonics: Librarian/information professional temp agencies
Thursday, October 7, 2004
- Position Matching Knowledge
The recent growth in information technology has helped push salaries for law librarians at major firms up by nearly a third, according to a new survey.
The expansion of knowledge management systems and techniques has also moved law librarians towards the top in their firms, as their research and associated skills have grown in importance [...]
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
- Grow the Profession
It’s one of my favorite soapboxes that we need to publicize ourselves more. With the sheer amount of options members of our society face today, just offering excellent service isn’t enough to make them think of us. Plus, there is the common preconceptions of what librarians do. While the way we are characterized is fairly [...]
Thursday, September 16, 2004
- More Identity
LibraryTechtonics: Creative Librarian reads my mind……or my blog.
Actually both :-).
First there was the Library Juice article, which made a great point.
Next was the Wired News article where the idea of the stereotype not really fitting seems to finally be moving into the press. (While mainstream media have blandly stood by as the free flow [...]
Wednesday, September 8, 2004
- Self Marketing
Information professionals usually don’t think of marketing themselves as a big issue. We know are the key to accessing information; we are service- and customer-oriented; we know our business - so, customers will just come to us, right?
Unfortunately, we do need to market ourselves - not just to be known, but also to let our [...]
Friday, August 27, 2004
- Writing for the Profession
Many information professionals, understandably busy with both day-to-day responsibilities and keeping up with our rapidly-changing
field, may feel overwhelmed by the idea of making original
contributions to the profession. One of the best ways to remain
current and connected, however, is by taking the time to contribute
through writing for publication. Our research and writing activities
also allow us to [...]
Thursday, August 26, 2004
- Chronicle Careers
Chronicle Careers is a subset of “The Chronicle of Higher Education.” It contains jobs from more than 800 institutions is a searchable and categorized database. My favorite part is that the categories have their own RSS feeds. You can let the job ads come to you.
Chronicle.com - Jobs in Librarians/library administration (rss)
Chronicle.com - Jobs in [...]
Thursday, May 6, 2004
- Early Career Survival
Library Journal - Early Career Survival is a great article which talks about job-hunting and early career survival tactics.
Monday, April 26, 2004
- Web as Networking
The Shifted Librarian points to Jon who points to Hublog. And, by process of evolution, the topic of music recommendations turns into library information on the Internet. This is one of the reasons I love the web. Not only can you “listen in” to conversations that give you new ideas, by the process of linking, [...]
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
- Digital Information Librarian
The Future Of News: The Digital Information Librarian - Robin Good’ Sharewood Tidings
The Digital Information Librarian is one of the emerging professional roles that is best qualified to ride and leverage to its best advantage the revolution about to sweep the information management, search, retrieval and independent news publishing industries.
Thursday, January 8, 2004
- Alt MLS
LIScareer.com : Librarians in the Information Age: Alternative Uses of MLS Degrees
My personal favorite is the manager of a store that sells sex toys. Not just because of the off-the-wall nature of the job but because she relates it to her degree. She mentions doing “reference interviews” to find out what the customer wants and [...]
Monday, December 15, 2003
- Library Job Postings
Combined Library Job Postings - Lisjobs.com and Library Job Postings on the Internet
Lisjobs.com and Library Job Postings on the Internet have combined their job postings! This will save you time and effort sorting through duplicate listings, and brings you the most library-related postings in one location.
Searchable and has a RSS feed.
- LIScareer.com
LIScareer.com — The Librarian & Information Professional’s Career
Development Center
LIScareer.com offers career development resources for new librarians and information professionals, MLS students and those considering a library-related career.��The site features practical articles contributed by information professionals, along with links to online and print resources.
Monday, December 1, 2003
- Beyond the Job
Beyond the Job
Professional tips for librarians: Articles, job-hunting advice, professional development opportunities, and other news and ideas on how to further your library career. Compiled by the Library Job People, Sarah Johnson and Rachel Singer Gordon.
Friday, May 23, 2003
- Electronic Librarianship Primer
A request for useful online resources for electronic librarians returned a good list. The requestor was kind enough to post a summary and to allow me post it here. All html, including links, was done by me. If there is a mistake, please let me know. All of the content is as he wrote it, [...]
Monday, May 12, 2003
- Career Resources
North Carolina Libraries online: ISSN 0029-2540 from the North Carolina Library Association puts its newsletter online in PDF format. The Spring 2003 edition includes an article by H. Jamane Yeager called “Career Resources for Librarians/Information Professionals” with a lengthy bibliography and Webliography.
