May 01 2001
May 1, 2001 - vol. 2, no. 3 - ISSN 1532-0839
Welcome back to Info Career Trends! Today’s articles focus on the broad theme of changing careers, and the contributors each tell a personal story of moving between types of libraries, into librarianship from another profession, to another country, or out of [...]
May 01 2001
by Sam Werberg
After finishing my MLIS in 1997, I left Austin, TX to spend three years in Fes, Morocco working with the Peace Corps as a University Librarian. Based on this experience and my preparation for it, I would like to share a few tips about working internationally.
Getting There: Deciding to Go, [...]
May 01 2001
by Carolyn Davis
A common theme throughout my careers has been that of research. I have always loved finding things out — not via the neighborhood grapevine, but via “official” means. Even as a child I loved “quiet time” in the dining room because it afforded me an opportunity to read the World [...]
May 01 2001
by Jennifer McCabe
When I graduated from library school in 1995, I already had four years of paraprofessional experience in a public library. My first professional job, though, was as a law librarian in the branch office of a large national law firm. I took this job for a number of reasons. [...]
May 01 2001
by Karen Botkin
What do you call a person who is part concert booker/promoter, part civil engineer, and part politician, who shelf reads books with a library staff and writes pithy articles for a local town newspaper? The answer is not a riddle from a children’s book: A public library director does [...]
May 01 2001
by Paula McMillen
While many come to librarianship from other careers, I made my third major career change to the profession after a somewhat atypical process. I made myself the subject of a formal assessment process while completing a certificate program in career counseling.
One of the first things we learned in the career [...]
May 01 2001
by Pamela Newsome
After fifteen years as a reference librarian for the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) Library, I recently made a career change and became a management analyst in Mn/DOT’s Office of Business Planning, Management Analysis Unit. The management analysts in our office are internal consultants to management; they help groups [...]
May 01 2001
Today’s articles have focused largely on careers in librarianship, but a number of options are open to information professionals who wish to move into related fields. These resources will help those of you who are interested in using your skills as librarians in alternative careers, and give you ideas as to [...]
May 01 2001
Sellen, Betty-Carol, ed. What Else You Can Do With a Library Degree: Career Options for the 90s and Beyond. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 1997. ISBN 1-55570-264-3.
Sellen has compiled articles from a number of degreed librarians who have put their library skills to good use in a variety of non- traditional settings, from publishing [...]