Sep 01 2004
Info Career Trends - September 2004 Editor’s Note
Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us… Happy birthday to ICT!
Info Career Trends is four years old this month, and we’re celebrating with…
New themes for 2005! If you’ve been waiting to write for ICT, now’s your chance to take your pick of two brand-new [...]
Sep 01 2004
by The Library Career People
Q: I work in a small academic library that employs three librarians, two paraprofessionals, and eight to ten student workers. Many academic libraries desire their librarians to have a second masters degree, usually for tenure, although our institution does not have tenure. I am the only one [...]
Sep 01 2004
by Wendy Lee
I learned the hard way that it’s not enough to simply know your job well; it’s imperative that you are also able to present yourself well.
When I first became a library manager, I was interviewed by the local newspaper. I was caught off guard near the end of the [...]
Sep 01 2004
by Robin Kear
Many of us subscribe to three, four, or even more professional discussion lists. There are general library lists for your career track, for national, regional, and state association committees or interest groups, and for specific aspects of librarianship; larger libraries may even have internal ones. There is a list [...]
Sep 01 2004
by Stacey Knight-Davis
Librarians have been discussing how to achieve professional status in the eyes of society since Dewey’s time. Since we’re still discussing it, odds are that we still have work to do! Looking at the techniques used in other professions helps us discover a few tricks to help our personal [...]
Sep 01 2004
by Karen Evans
Interviews are a great opportunity to highlight your skills and abilities. Whether the interview is on-site or via telephone, your answers can make or break your chances of being offered a position. How can you improve your odds during the interview process?
Start Out Strong
Prepare for the interview. Think about the [...]
Sep 01 2004
by Dennie Heye
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 [...]
Sep 01 2004
Combating Ageism: Lessons Learned by ‘Baby’ Librarians
Info Career Trends, Sept. 2002. Theme issue on “professional communication.”
Interviewing: Beware Blogging Blunders
Market Yourself Online
NextGen: Speech Wants to Be Free
Professionalism: A Matter of Relationships, Choices and Obligations
Professionalism Is an Attitude
Writing for the Profession
Sep 01 2004
Pantry, Sheila and Peter Griffiths. Your Essential Guide to Career Success, 2nd ed. London: Facet Publishing, 2003. ISBN 1856044912. $55.00.Â
As with an education, you get out of a book, newsgroup, journal, or web page what you put into it. I, quite honestly, got tired of putting anything into this text by page [...]
Sep 01 2004
Evans, G. Edward & Patricia Layzell Ward. Beyond the Basics: The Management Guide for Library and Information Professionals. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2003. ISBN 1-55570-476-X. pap. $59.95.Â
Building on the success of their Management Basics for Information Professionals (Neal-Schuman, 2000), authors Edwards and Ward offer solidly-researched skills and strategies for navigating the climb up [...]