May 04 2009
Important announcement: After the May 2009 issue, Info Career Trends will be going on hiatus indefinitely.
But why, Rachel?
After putting out bimonthly issues for nearly 9 years, it’s time for a break. I’m finding it harder to balance labors of love like ICT with family and with paid projects, and need to refocus some of my [...]
Jan 02 2009
The Tech Static, a new resource for librarians, focuses on reviewing technology-related books and other media, as well as providing other collection development assistance in this area. The Tech Static launched November 10 and provides monthly coverage of current resources; the next issue comes out January 9.
If you purchase computer books or professional technology titles [...]
Nov 03 2008
October 15 marked the last installment of Library Journal’s “Computer Media” review column, which I’ve written since 2002. October also marked the last installment of LJ’s computer book prepub alerts.
This leaves a large gap in the library literature, since no other librarian-targeted publication currently reviews computer books on a regular basis. To fill that gap, [...]
Sep 02 2008
September 2, 2008 - vol. 9, no. 5 - ISSN 1532-0839
Welcome back! Today’s issue, on nontraditional careers, contains a wealth of ideas and experiences from contributors that have taken their own careers off the beaten library path. (And, if you want more, more, more, let me gently plug my title on the topic: What’s the Alternative? [...]
Jul 24 2008
Just a note that a lot of comments have been lost — originally they’d all disappeared, but my ISP was able to salvage a few. So, if you commented on an article and no longer see your comment, please don’t take it personally! And please feel free to comment again :).
Feb 05 2008
Hi all - Just a note that I’m going to be moving over old content from back issues starting this week — so you’ll see all sorts of old articles coming through your readers. (Enjoy the blast from the past!)
I’m moving the content so it’s all searchable from the same interface and all formatted the [...]