Nov 04 2007
November 1, 2007 - vol. 8, no. 6 - ISSN 1532-0839
Happy belated Halloween, to those of you who celebrate! Info Career Trends is winding down the year and celebrating the season with a few more changes. First, individual articles are now online at the new Info Career Trends blog.
This means a new RSS feed: feeds.feedburner.com/InfoCareerTrends, [...]
Nov 04 2007
Finding a Library Job
A 2005 article I wrote for Library Journal on job hunting.
Frequently Asked Interview Questions - USC SLIS
As reported by students. Use these to help prepare for your own interviews.
How I Got my Dream Library Job, by Ignacio J. Ferrer-Vinent
Some tips from one librarian’s experience.
The Info Pro’s Survival Guide to Job Hunting, by [...]
Nov 04 2007
by Jaclyn Bedoya
Let’s say your wanderlust has flared up, maybe you’re an Anglophile, or perhaps your partner has found a dream job in London. Whatever it is, suddenly you’ve found yourself looking to find a library job on another continent. Having recently conducted a job search in the U.K., I’d love to share a few [...]
Nov 04 2007
by Rebecca Donnelly
There may be no more uncomfortable category in the field of job hunting than that of the lowly novice, who has little relevant experience or education and faces the terrifying prospect of flaunting that disadvantage in front of a series of interviewers. I am a library novice, with nine months of full-time employment [...]
Nov 04 2007
by Jess Bruckner
Two years ago this month, I launched a website devoted to helping librarians from all walks of life locate employment in Wisconsin. I had a budding desire to learn more about web design and maintenance, and wanted to help people along the way; the result was a challenging project I named WisLISjobs.com. Being [...]
Nov 04 2007
Sweetman, Kimberly Burke. Managing Student Assistants: A how-to-do-it manual for librarians. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2007. ISBN 978-1-55570-581-7. $59.95.
Managing Student Assistants is another guide in the “How-to-Do-It Manuals for Librarians” series that offers excellent practical advice culled from experience. Sweetman not only offers suggestions about everyday management issues, such as scheduling, but also provides practical solutions [...]
Nov 04 2007
by Nancy Larrabee
As Head of Information Services at a medium-sized public library, I have received many resumes over the years, and have interviewed and recommended hiring several staff members. I have not been impressed by resumes with:
typos
line spacing issues
fancy fonts
hybrid resumes/cover letters
no cover letters
handwritten envelopes
no logical timeline
too much life history
Resumes, whether printed or e-mailed, remain [...]
Nov 04 2007
Smallwood, Carol, ed. Educators as Writers: Publishing for Personal and Professional Development. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2006. ISBN 0-8204-8601-9. $29.95.
Written by and for educators, including librarians, Educators as Writers speaks to those seeking insider tips from colleagues who have published creative or professional writing. Smallwood has collected 54 essays on a wide range of [...]
Nov 04 2007
Dowell, David R. and Gerard B McCabe. It’s All About Student Learning: Managing Community and Other College Libraries in the 21st Century. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2006. ISBN 9781591581499. $45.00.
It’s All About Student Learning offers engaging perspectives on situations faced by community college library managers. A resource for community college librarians in managerial roles, this [...]
Nov 04 2007
by Jennifer Dawson
When I was in library school, my boyfriend (now husband) planned on getting his forestry degree when I graduated. He decided on moving out west, preferably to Arizona, Colorado, or Idaho. This limited my job-hunting possibilities to relatively small geographic areas, since each of these states has one university with an accredited forestry [...]