Jan 02 2008
January 1, 2008 - vol. 9, no. 1 - ISSN 1532-0839
This new year brings more changes for Info Career Trends and LISjobs.com, and I’m excited to announce new content ranging from career-related columns to online discussion forums. Stay posted for more upcoming changes and additions — and, why not make it your new year’s resolution [...]
Jan 02 2008
by The Library Career People
*** A note to our loyal followers: The career column advice that you know and love has moved to a blog in order to facilitate more communication with you, the readers, and to provide more timely answers to the questions we receive. We hope to create an enlightening discussion forum of [...]
Jan 02 2008
by Kim Dority
Rethinking Information Careers covers career alternatives and strategies for information
professionals. Check out January’s column, which talks about some different ways of thinking about your information skills in the broader context of content companies:
Content Companies: LIS Career Opportunity?
About the Author
Founder and president of G. K. Dority & Associates, Inc., Kim Dority is an information [...]
Jan 02 2008
by Robin Kear
As a conscientious librarian and consumer of information in all forms, I try to read, scan, and/or save all kinds of professional information related to libraries, technology, and information. I manage this in a number of ways, using self-awareness, self-selection, and an ever-changing technological palette.
Rule #1: Accept your own information limitations.
If you are [...]
Jan 02 2008
by Katherine Ott
In our profession, it is very easy to get bogged down in the amount of information coming at us on a daily basis. As a librarian, I am expected to keep abreast of new trends, technology, products, services, and theories about libraries — as well as many other subjects. I am expected to [...]
Jan 02 2008
by Jill Sodt
As quickly as technology changes, so does the job of the reference librarian. Where reference work once involved helping library patrons find information in encyclopedias, print journals, and microfilm, it has moved to navigating electronic databases, online journals, and internet searches. The environments where we provide service has also changed, with more virtual [...]
Jan 02 2008
by Norda Majekodunmi
Information professionals, just like their users, struggle with information overload and keeping up with whirlwind developments in the information world. While it is difficult enough to keep up as a working information professional, this is especially challenging for librarians not currently in the workplace. How do you keep up and stay current when [...]
Jan 02 2008
by Veronica L. C. Stevenson-Moudamane
In today’s workplace, the edgier, forward-thinking assignments are usually given to those who are more tuned in professionally. For busy information professionals, though, work (and life, for that matter) can be a frustrating merry-go-round of too much to do, of always running behind, of doing mediocre work (or not getting it [...]
Jan 02 2008
by Genevieve Williams
My story might seem familiar. One of the blogs I read regularly is Read/WriteWeb, a web technology blog. (One of he best ways, not just to keep up, but also get ahead of what’s going on in the library and information world is to read outside the field.) I soon felt swamped — [...]
Jan 02 2008
“Consuming Information” by Brett Bonfield
An LJ article on ways to “consume content efficiently.”
Librarians Keeping Up and Making Time
Emily Clasper writes about ways (and why!) to keep up.
Master Your Information Manifesto: 21 Tips to Deal with Info Overload
On not letting information control our lives.
Steven Bell’s Keeping Up Web Site
“A librarian’s resource center for keeping up.”
“Taming the [...]