LIScareer keeps offering great information and advice for both sides of the hiring process.

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 [...]

Off to a Good Start: Strategies for Your First Year in a New Job

The Oct 2004 LIScareer Articles have been posted. Information for new and not so new liberarians.

Gary Price answers some very relevant questions on librarianship today and how we should go from here.

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 [...]

LibraryTechtonics: Librarian/information professional temp agencies

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]