Mar 01 2005
We talk often about our skills as information professionals being transferable, and this issue’s articles illustrate ways to use our library background in various environments. Knowing more about our options allows us to plan out the career path that’s best for us; as libraries and librarianship continue to evolve, many more [...]
Mar 01 2005
by The Library Career People
Q: I recently became interested in the library profession, but can’t seem to find any schools that offer the library sciences degree. What schools would you suggest?
TA: This opens the door, not only to answer your initial question (how do I find a school?), but also to address [...]
Mar 01 2005
by Paul Duckworth
How does a librarian move from a traditional job to something outside the box of library walls? If this sounds like a Zen koan to you, perhaps you’re thinking about it too hard - just let the energy flow into your solar plexus. When you’re centered, you can follow the [...]
Mar 01 2005
by Officer Tom Rink
When you think about the title “librarian,” the traditional settings that come to mind are public libraries, academic libraries, and school libraries. As a matter of fact, the entire time that I was in library school, I envisioned becoming an academic librarian. I never dreamed that I’d be able to pursue a [...]
Mar 01 2005
by Marylaine Block
From time to time I get e-mails from library and information science
students asking me to talk about my career as an Internet librarian,
so I’m going to answer some of those questions here.
Why Did You Make This Career Move?
There were a lot of reasons.
I’d been in the same job for 22 years, and even [...]
Mar 01 2005
by Amelia Kassel
On January 26 of this year, I began teaching a new course about alternative careers to graduate LIS students. Alternative careers, or, should I perhaps say, non- traditional-careers, are not new to me - nor is teaching. I received my MLS in 1971 from UCLA, and then applied for and was [...]
Mar 01 2005
“A Day in the Life of a Digital Librarian” by Alana BoyajianAn account of duties at a 100% distance education university.
“Job of a Lifetime” C&RL News column
Not necessarily alternative careers, but spotlights librarians with unusual or interesting positions. Scroll down page for links to individual columns.
“Librarians in the Information Age: Alternative Uses of [...]
Mar 01 2005
Shontz, Priscilla. The Librarian’s Career Guidebook. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004. ISBN 0810850346, $40.00.
A follow up to Shontz’s 2002 book, Jump Start Your Career in Library and Information Science, The Librarian’s Career Guidebook is a wonderful collection of resources and information for librarians in all stages of their work lives, from those just [...]