LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Library School interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:53:07 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15584 Dean of Library & Distance Education (McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, Illinois)   Responsible for providing leadership, development and implementation of services and programs for the Library, Distance Education, and Academic Computer Labs. ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:20:02 +0100 868581 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/__YszJwmlaE/guest-post-so-you-want-to-be.html The following is a guest post from Lisa Rabey. It was originally posted on LITA-L on August 31, 2010. I started my MLIS in the fall of 2008 and before I started school, I spent a lot of time researching information on the career field and also looking for blogs/journals/etc about the process of researching schools, to what kind of classes would benefit me coupled with my own background (10 years in technology, plus a BA and a MA), and anything really from those who were in the current throes of school. There was, at least then, very little. While I did find a load of stuff about librarianship from those in the field, but I also found that many of the blogs/journals/books were also outdated or getting close to being outdated. Secondly, I found that most online communities/networking sites tended to be filled with the same type of questions: What schools are the best? Should I take the GRE? I have a background in X, would this be applicable to becoming a librarian?  To me at the time, that wasn't quite what I was looking for. I decided to put together series of blog posts on what I thought would be helpful to others considering going to lib school ranging from determining what type of school one should choose, lecture delivery, job placement, programs available, how to determine your career path, what other professions/career paths a MLIS can be used for and on to job hunting and more: http://shesgotplans.net/so-you-want-to-be-a-librarianarchivist/ *It should be noted that ALA has the above bookmarked in their delicious account to pass on to others seeking the same answers. I've gotten loads of emails from people over the last two years telling me how invaluable the information is to them and that it helped clarify or solidify their decisions to not only attend lib school, but also helped them sort out what type of librarian or archivist they wanted to be. ... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:12:00 +0100 868008 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7684 State: New Jersey library.princeton.edu/hr/positions/JobRefLibrnSpColl2008.html Position Summary: The Special Collections Reference Librarian is responsible for reference services in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department in Firestone Library and works closely with the Assistant University Archivist for Public Services at the Mudd Manuscript Library to coordinate public services for all of Special Collections. This person supervises the work of three support staff and coordinates the delivery of public services with many professionals and support staff who play part-time public service roles in the Department. The position reports to the Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections. We seek a generalist with the ability and talent to provide reference services for the myriad subject areas the Department covers. The main reading room in Firestone serves more than 2,500 patrons annually from within and without the University community. Our patrons consult more than 12,000 books, manuscripts, graphic materials, maps, and other items that span many languages and five millennia of recorded history. The Department's public services staff at Firestone also handle approximately 2,500 reference inquiries annually from around the world, provide paper, microfilm, digital, and photographic copies for approximately 16,000 items annually, and gather materials for and host more than 100 classes for approximately 1,500 students during the academic year. The successful candidate must be committed to and be an advocate for public services in the Department, as well as in the wider library system. The ideal candidate will enjoy working with researchers, take up the challenge of problem solving, have a welcoming personality and qualities that will help patrons researching primary sources. The position may work occasional evening or weekend hours. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100 867353 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15551 Director (Yazoo Library Association, Yazoo City, Mississippi) Director Yazoo Library Association B. S. Ricks Memorial Library 310 North Main Street Yazoo City, MS 39194 662-746-5586 The Administrative Board of Trustees of the Yazoo Library Association’s B. S. Ricks Memorial Library is seeking a creative and innovative Director who can blend traditional library services with the technology needs required by our citizens. Yazoo City is situated in Yazoo County, the Gateway to the Mississippi Delta. Named for a preeminent turn of the 20th century local entrepreneur, the B. S. Ricks Memorial Library is a 1901 Beaux Arts building that is also on the National Register of Historic Places. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:15:01 +0100 865542 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/A465Z44xyYw/boekpresentatie-de-bibliotheek-van-de.html Rob Bruijnzeels is altijd met interessante projecten bezig: de Library School, het Ministerie van Verbeelding, het samenbrengen van meerdere culturele organisaties, waaronder een bibliotheek, in een oude kerk (PDF): het zijn allemaal voorbeelden van anders en innovatief nadenken over de bibliotheek van de toekomst. Vrijdag mailde Rob: Op dinsdag 14 september wordt in de bibliotheek van Heerhugowaard een driedelige boekencassette gepresenteerd over het project 'de bibliotheek van de 100 talenten'. Ik ben al een flink aantal jaren met dit project bezig en deze boeken zijn echt een mijlpaal In 'de 100 talenten' is een nieuw concept voor jeugdbibliotheekwerk ontwikkeld, waarbij wij uitgaan van de mediawijsheid van kinderen. Dat betekent echt op een heel andere manier werken in de jeugdbibliotheek, met designers, filosofen, kinderen, bibliothecarissen, game-ontwerpers en organisatiedeskundigen.. Het waarom en het hoe van 'dat anders werken' hebben wij de afgelopen jaren verkend en opgeschreven. Interessant toch? Wie hier bij wil zijn, of meer over het project te weten wil komen, kan terecht op de website van Probiblio. @ Illustratie: Joost Swarte (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:45:00 +0100 864832 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/08/21/reference-question-of-the-week-81510 This question might get me into a little trouble* but it’s a good example of the importance of librarians, so here goes: The phone rang, and the person on the other end said she was a librarian fresh out of library school, working at elementary school in Colorado, and having trouble locating some poems her teachers wanted for class. She knew the titles and authors, but couldn’t find the actual text in her library or online. She called me because she likes my website and hoped I could help. My first suggestion was Granger’s Index to poetry - it wasn’t in her collection but was in her local public library. But because online resources are more useful for these long-distance questions, and it was a very quiet afternoon at work, after we hung up I thought I’d try searching for the text myself, too. The four poems she was looking for were Eating the World, Last Kiss and Statue by Ralph Fletcher, and Spaghetti by Cynthia Rylant. I started by searching for title/author combinations, grouped together with quotes (ie, “ralph fletcher” “eating the world”). I was somewhat surprised that, even after going through the few pages of results, the texts weren’t there. Then I thought maybe they were scanned as part of the Google Books project, so I clicked the link on each page to switch to searching Google Books (see image above). And if I was surprised at not finding the texts in a regular web search, I was doubly surprised to find they were the first or second result when searching Google Books. So far, including the phone call, this all took me literally less than ten minutes. I emailed the four story links to the librarian, and she replied that they were exactly what she needed. So that’s nice. ... Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:17:48 +0100 865046 http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/07/article-note-on-liaison-activities-for.html Citation for the article:Kozel-Gains, Melissa A. and Richard A. Stoddart, "Experiments and Experiences in Liaison Activities: Lessons from New Librarians in Integrating Technology, Face-to-Face, and Follow-Up." Collection Management 34.2 (April 2009) :130-142. Read via Interlibrary Loan.  The article reviews some librarian liaison activities. It specifically looks at blogs, customized research pages, and the use of Library Thing for collection development. The article is mostly for new librarians who find themselves with liaison duties in academia, but librarians who are already working in academia will find benefit from the article as well. The authors cite RUSA's definition of liaison work as "the process by which librarians involve the library's clientele in the assessment and satisfaction of collection needs" (131). Let me put it in plain English. If you are an academic librarian, and your role includes working with faculty in a specific department, and if said role includes work in collection development for said department/subject area, and you also provide instruction specifically to meet those department's needs, you are a library liaison. In a university setting, odds are pretty good that if you are a reference and/or instruction librarian, that you will have some level of liaison duties. Let me use myself as an example. I am the subject librarian here for the School of Education, the Department of Psychology, and the Department of Social Sciences (specifically for areas in anthropology, criminal justice, public administration, geography, and political science). This means that I promote library services to those areas. ... Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:50:00 +0100 866511 http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=2349&cpage=1#comment-1127044 Scott, I think there is a distinction to be drawn here between theory and practice, that is, what we do as librarians and the theory we use to inform what we do. In the realm of theory, I think there never was a solid, tested knowledge base to call “library science.” There were techniques that could be taught and learned, as they were in Dewey’s library school at Columbia, and then in the 1930s when the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago started the first LIS grad program, the discipline became more academic. But from that point forward the discipline, as an academic discipline, has been multidisciplinary, in the sense that it has been about applying methods from the social sciences and other fields to the practice of librarianship. The academic discipline has always been multidisciplinary, and has informed the practice of a profession that has had its own basis going back farther and living independently in its institutions. Practitioners who reject “theory” have traditions of practice and technique and knowledge passed down from mentor to mentee. That is an issue for me, but not as much of an issue as librarians who reject the traditional knowledge of their own profession (which, I think, does have some codified existence in LIS literature, in a mono-disciplinary way) in favor of KM or web design “as” “what librarians do.” (Source: Comments for Library Juice) Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:33:50 +0100 867481 http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=2349 More and more, I find that the library profession’s efforts to stay relevant in the age of information technology are in fact eroding our relevance. As a result of these efforts, it is becoming less and less clear what we offer that is different from what everybody else offers in the information economy. The reason is that our response to change around us has mostly been to repress those aspects of librarianship that are not directly reflected in new technological tools that other people claim as their domain more securely than we do. We keep saying that as librarians we are web designers, information architects, web searchers, information scientists, user experience experts, and on and on, when each of those things is already a profession filled with people who make a stronger claim to it than we do. What we can claim is librarianship, yet most people – not only outside but within the profession – have forgotten what that consists of other than “books.” In ALA, accreditation standards for masters degree programs in library science still refer to areas of competency that can be taken to define the profession. Yet in nearly all other ways, ALA is attempting to sell libraries and librarians on the basis of skills that everybody knows other people offer more distinctly, and so, it seems, are most library bloggers and magazine commentators. Despite the relative consistency in accreditation standards over time, it is presently a challenge to point to practicing librarians in order to demonstrate to people what it is that librarians do that others can’t do so well, simply because, and I hate to say it, most of us are not so exemplary. ... Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:35:45 +0100 867505 http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/08/california_libr_10.php CHICAGO--The California Library Association (CLA), a chapter of the American Library Association, has announced its support of the Spectrum Presidential Initiative with a contribution of $500. ALA President Roberta Stevens, Immediate Past President Dr. Camila Alire, ALA President-Elect Molly Raphael and ALA Past President Dr. Betty J. Turock, chair of the initiative, continue the Spectrum Presidential Initiative as a special campaign to raise $1 million for the Spectrum Scholarship Program. Through this initiative, ALA aims to meet the critical needs of supporting master's-level scholarships, providing two $25,000 doctoral scholarships, increasing the Spectrum Endowment to ensure the program's future and developing special programs for recruitment and career development. CLA's contribution will allow ALA to continue to support master's-level Spectrum Scholarships and build the Spectrum Endowment. Kim Bui-Burton, 2010 CLA president, said of the gift, "As a former recipient of a CLA Scholarship for Minority Students in Memory of Edna Yelland, I know the impact this kind of professional, financial investment can have on a library school student. As CLA President I am delighted to share the support of the Board and membership for ALA's Spectrum Scholarship students as they prepare to meet the needs of our nation's diverse and growing communities." Established in 1895, the California Library Association is a 501(c)(3) non-profit association that provides leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement of library services, librarianship, and the library community. CLA helps its 3,000 members excel in a fast-changing job market and is a resource for learning about new ideas and technology. Furthermore, CLA is a leading advocate on all statewide library issues and actively works to influence legislation affecting libraries and librarians. Governed by an elected Board of Directors, CLA is headquartered in Folsom, California. ... Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:24:35 +0100 867940 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/08/library-management-today-seeks-articles.html Library Management Today seeks articles for September issueFor our September issue, Library Management Today, the new online journal, is seeking short reflections by library managers on one or more of the following issues:1) How are budget cuts affecting your library in terms of hours of operation, staffing, services, and programming?2) Do you think library schools are preparing men and women to assume management positions? Should more courses be offered in library school on management and leadership? What kinds of changes would you suggest to the library school curriculum in terms of the types of courses and outside experiences?3) As a library manager, what are your major overall concerns as we begin the second half of 2010?For submission guidelines, visit http://www.libmanagetoday.com/. We welcome your articles and commentaries by August 25th. Please send all submissions to our Executive Editor, Colette Meehan at editor@kiesermanmedia.com. (Source: A Library Writer's Blog) Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866357 http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-librarians-who-may-or-not-read-and.html This post is sort of a response to the post by Liz B. from A Chair, A Fireplace, and a Cozy entitled "Readers' Advisory?"  The post made me think again of a few things I have been pondering lately about RA and librarians who may or not read.  * * * *When it comes to reading and readers' advisory work, there are two things that can make me cringe.One is the tendency of a lot of librarians in academia to not read or denigrate those who do. I have been in enough job interviews, on both sides of the table, to see this consistent reaction. It usually goes something like this: a candidate expresses that a reason she went into librarianship is because she likes to read. Those interviewing see the answer as less than substantial. I will grant that, unlike public librarians, academics tend to seek more specific traits in academic librarian candidates (collegiality, specific subject area knowledge for liaison work, teaching ability, ability and/or desire to publish, especially applicable to tenure lines), but somehow, to me at least, looking down on someone because they like to read is not right. The response I usually hear is that anyone saying they like to read is like someone saying they like puppies. I mean, you can't be against puppies, so same idea. The enjoyment of reading is either seen as a simplistic answer or as a stock answer, i.e. the answer you give when you don't have anything more original or substantial to say. I have found that you get a more positive experience if you get a candidate talking about some of the things they like to read, even if you do it during a lunch break or other more informal moment during the interview process (a note for any non-academic readers: interview process for an academic librarian, much like for faculty, can be an all day affair. Having a meal at some point is very common and  often used as an informal way to measure a candidate and viceversa). ... Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:21:00 +0100 866513 http://careercenter.sla.org/jobs/3499140/head-of-science-collections-and-scholarly-communic US - GA - Athens, Required Qualifications: MLIS from an ALA-accredited library school; Three to five years professional experience relevant to collection development in a research library and/or scholarly communicatio (Source: SLA Career Center Search Results []) Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:33:00 +0100 865575 http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/08/some-thoughts-on-concept-of-social.html The following set of semi-random musings are inspired or prompted by Professor Bell's recent piece in ACRLog entitled "Is There a Social Media Librarian In Your Library's Future?" Go read the piece first if you have not read it, then stay if interested for the meanderings.* * * *I never really saw myself as a social media librarian, but over time I would have to say that title describes a lot of what I do in a fairly accurate way. Here in my library, we are currently working to leverage social networks to better serve our academic community. I am a believer of being where the users are, but I am also a  user of online social media for personal needs. I think that this gives me a bit more credibility when I use social media for professional or work-related issues. But it is not all about just being a user of social media. My work here involves public relations and marketing for the library, so I find myself reading, investigating and assessing how to use those social media tools for our library's needs. From articles about better content creation to items about analytics, I read as much as I can to keep up and learn more. In terms of assessment, for instance, I am in the process of developing a faculty survey on library services, and one or two questions will go to social media usage. In the end, it is not so much about the tools as what you do with those tools; the goal for me is to learn how to make the social media work for us as a proactive engagement tool, then make it happen.To answer one of the questions Professor Bell poses: Yes, at this time, we have one librarian responsible for oversight of social media accounts and activities. It falls under the umbrella of Outreach, which is my job title and description. Some of the duties are shared. For instance, other librarians have posting privileges to the library's blog. I will grant that at this time they do not take much advantage of it, but they do have the access and the opportunity. ... Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:06:00 +0100 866514 http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/409 The invaluable Swiss Army Librarian posted some Notes on Reading Resumes a few weeks back. At my library, I am also on a committee that is evaluating 40+ applications for a single position. Some of them are very good. Some of them are very bad. Many of them need. . . help. And so in the interests of providing some of that, I thought I’d make a few notes of my own. File format does matter. Like Brian, I think PDF is the best choice you can make at present, as it will be sure to preserve your typography and spacing and such, and it’s fairly standard. If you have Microsoft Word 2007, you can save any document as a PDF. If you don’t have Word, and don’t have money, Open Office is free and will let you do the same thing. We got one letter that came as a text file, without about two words per line. It was so unreadable that I’m not sure anyone on the committee took it seriously. I am biased toward people with some kind of web presence. No, I don’t think it’s a requirement, but it is an excellent way to demonstrate your fluency with technology and to show off any nifty work you’ve done — tutorials, pamphlets, reading lists, videos, whatever — that doesn’t necessarily fit well into a standard letter/resume. Again, it’s not necessary to have money to do this — I’ve seen some excellent portfolios that used Google Pages, Weebly, or wordpress.com, among others. Appearances matter. Be consistent in your formatting, and use standard (or at least semi-standard — as Brian notes, doing a little bit of spiffy design work is a good way to show off your computer aptitude) professional typefaces. Comic Sans on a resume just does not inspire me to take you very seriously. When applicable, say something in your letter about why you want to move to the place where the job is as well as why you want the job itself. ... Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:11:58 +0100 865994 http://weibel-lines.typepad.com/weibelines/2010/07/turning-the-page.html Friday, July 30, marks my last day at OCLC: twenty five years, three weeks, and one day of service to the cooperative. I began my career in OCLC Research without a day in library school, my main qualification being an obsession with microcomputers.  I forgot my belt that first day, and my resulting sartorial inelegance seemed to me to mirror my insecurity about my future in a field for which I had no direct training (does being married to a librarian count?).Over the years I benefited from managers who gave me what I needed at the right time.  Mike MacGill gave me a job, Martin Dillon was a mentor on how to be productive; Terry Noreault let me take risks.  Lorcan Dempsey afforded me the luxury of exploration.  Jim Michalko gave me a new perspective. Jay Jordan supported the work I did from the top, with a commitment to standards and community involvement that was critical.I have enjoyed and been stimulated by OCLC colleagues who work at the highest level of our profession, some of whom know more than most anyone about their domains, and who are recognized widely for their expertise and contributions.  Most everything I know about librarianship was incubated in their care.  There is simply no substitute for being able to walk 20 paces to chat with a global leader in duplicate detection, or Dewey, or name matching, or VIAF, or FRBR, or any of dozens of other esoteric disciplines of librarianship, digital and otherwise.I was fortunate during much of my tenure at OCLC to have the freedom to work directly with the community... in the community.   After the New York Times article that brought the Web to the broader attention of the world, Terry Noreault asked me if I’d like to look after our early Web liaison activities, and thus began a whirlwind engagement with the Web community that has channeled my activities to this day. ... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:41:09 +0100 863934 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/07/call-for-papers-emerging-research-in.html Call for Papers: Emerging Research in Collection Management & Development - The Second Annual Collections Research Forum at ALA Annual 2011The Publications Committee of the Collection Management & Development Section of ALCTS is sponsoring the Second Annual Collections Research Forum, "Emerging Research in Collection Management & Development," at the 2011 American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans.This is an opportunity to present and discuss your research. Both completed research and research in progress will be considered. All researchers, including collection practitioners from all types of libraries, library school faculty and students, and other interested individuals, are encouraged to submit a proposal.The Committee will use a "blind review” process to select two projects. The selected researchers are required to present their papers in person at the forum. Each researcher should plan for a 25-30 minute presentation, with a 10-15 minute open discussion following each presentation. Criteria for selection are:-Significance of the study for improving collection management and development practices -Potential for research to fill a gap in collections scholarship or to build on previous studies-Quality and creativity of the methodologyPreviously published research or research accepted for publication prior to November 5, 2010, will not be accepted.The submission must consist of no more than two pages. On the first page, please list your name(s), title(s), institutional affiliation(s), and contact information (including your mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and email address). The second page should be a one-page proposal, and it should NOT show your name or any personal information. ... Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 862334 http://www.onlineinsider.net/2010/07/16/spicing-up-our-image/ I went to library school a long time ago, but even then many professionals worried about the image of librarians and the library. And we still do. That’s why, I guess, we get so excited about the portrayal of librarians and the presence of libraries in popular culture. With social media, news travels quickly. When the University of Washington’s iSchool put a video of librarians adapting Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” to library research (CA-Ca-Catalog. Don’t forget the databases”) , librarians blogged, tweeted, and facebooked about it. Most loved it. Now we’ve gone gaga over Old Spice. When Isiah Mustafa, the actor who play the Old Spice man in the YouTube commercials announced he would post replies to blog posts and tweets, New Jersey librarian Andy Woodworth suggested he mention libraries. In only a couple of hours, the library video went live and quickly became a viral hit, not, presumably, just among librarians, since it’s had 61 million views as of this morning. Some librarians were upset, however, that he connoted libraries with books. It’s that image thing, again. We want our image to be more than about books. Yeah, don’t forget the databases. We want to be seen as forward thinking, technologically savvy, ahead of the curve, and totally up to date. Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library may have the last laugh on this one. It’s got a short video that parodies the Old Spice commercial by presenting the “New Spice, Study like a Scholar, Scholar” video. Starring HumorU comedian and BYU student Stephen Jones, who bears a startling resemblance to Old Spice’s Mustafa, it extols the value of the library. (Should I really think of library databases as celestial sandwiches? Hmmm.) Image aside, what these really tell me is the power of video for libraries. ... Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:47:25 +0100 859984 http://library.blog.wku.edu/2010/07/12/rodes-helm-lecture-series/ On September 27, 1961 the College Heights Herald announced the $25,000 endowment of the Rodes-Helm Lecture Series.  The money was donated by Harold and Mary (Rodes) Helm in honor of two individuals close to them. John Rodes was a judge in the Warren County circuit court described as “one of the most distinguished jurists in the South.”  Judge Rodes was a native of Bowling Green and graduate of Ogden College.  He went on to study law at the University of Virginia.  He was also the father of Mary Grider Rodes Helm. Margie Helm, Harold’s sister was born in Auburn, Kentucky and grew in Bowling Green.  She attended Randolph Macon Women’s College, Pratt Institute Library School and Chicago Graduate Library School.  She returned to Bowling Green in 1920 taking the position of assistant librarian at WKU.   In 1923 she was appointed head librarian and held that position for 42 years.  Two years after her retirement, WKU rededicated the library building as the Margie Helm Library in her honor. Kelly Thompson stated that the Rodes-Helm Lecture Series “will be used to bring to the Western campus, personalities, thinkers and speakers whom we might not otherwise have an opportunity to meet.”  Some of those have included Pearl Buck, William Buckley, Chet Huntley, Buckminster Fuller and Charles Kuralt to name a few.   The record series includes programs, press releases and recordings of some lectures.  The initial press conference announcing the gift and establishment of the lecture series was recorded on a 33 1/3 lp which is also part of the collection.  The finding aid for the series is available online at: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_fin_aid/123/  Researchers can use view and listen to the items in the Harrison-Baird Reading Room of the Kentucky Building, Monday-Saturday, 9-4. (Source: Western Kentucky University Libraries Blog) Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:19:42 +0100 859035 http://www.information-literacy.net/2010/07/accidental-profession-career-paths-of.html The Accidental Profession: Career Paths of Academic Library Development OfficersMichael LorenzenABSTRACT. Libraries in higher education are increasingly seeking to expand their fund raising efforts to address declining financial support from their institutions of higher education. Development officers who specialize in raising money for academic libraries have proven to be an important aspect for success in library fund raising. This paper examines how individuals in academic library development positions find themselves in these positions in the first place. The results of a qualitative study are presented which demonstrates that most academic library development officers do not set out to seek their current jobs and instead they arrive in the positions by happenstance and accident. The paper also looks at implications of this finding and offer suggestions for better recruitment and training of academic library development officers.KEYWORDS library development officers, fund raising, academic libraries, career paths, philanthropy, higher educationIntroductionHigher education is an important but expensive endeavor. The costs to attend and operate colleges and universities continue to rise at the same time that governmental support for these institutions has waned (Gladieux & King, 1999). Clark and Brandon (2006) argued that the majority of the states (43 of 50) deserved F's in college affordability because they have chosen as a matter of public policy to place much of the financial burden for a college education on families through higher tuition and other expenses thus making degrees less affordable. As a result of the decline in public support and increasing costs, many institutions of higher education are seeking increased private funding. Turning to private money to supplement other sources of income is a reasonable strategy for higher education as state governments cannot be relied upon to fund at the same levels they did in the past. ... Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 858672 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=BCALA_Job_Announcements_Coordinator_of_Library_Instruction MLS/MLIS from an ALA accredited library school and at least two years of public service experience in an academic library. Excellent interpersonal, o (Source: pligg - all) Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:00:22 +0100 856436 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/tMpxcJ6xM-Q/ Yep, I just signed the contract and handed all my paperwork into Human Resources. I’m starting the position as Associate Lecturer in Information Studies at Curtin University of Technology on 15 July, teaching the unit about Information Management Technologies and also the Public Librarianship unit. I take a week off with the kids on school holidays next week, spend two more days at the Grove, then start at Curtin the next day…The students arrive about two weeks after I start. If you are in my network and are a student or a library school teacher or a librarian with an idea about what should be taught, I will probably be calling on you for mentorship as I find my feet in the next six months or so.. I would love to know your best bit of advice you can give to someone teaching library school students, online and blended online/internal teaching, changing to a new sector or balancing work and family … any and all ideas gratefully accepted…. (Source: Librarians matter) Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:07:10 +0100 857457 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryCloud/~3/isoInpCs8BE/ala-2010-book-cart-drill-teams.html The Sixth Annual Book Cart Drill Team World Championships, sponsored by Demco, were held on Sunday afternoon during ALA Annual Conference. Seven teams competing for the gold, silver, and bronze Demco carts performed to a packed house (the largest crowd I've seen in the last five years). We were once again entertained by master's of ceremony, Jon Scieszka and Mo Willems; they made no secret that every team was their personal favorite.And the winners are ... Night of the Living Librarians from my alma mater, The University of Pittsburgh School of Library and Information Sciences!Demco's You Tube channel features all of the performances, as well as the award ceremony. I was lucky enough to sit with a new librarian from Columbia, South Carolina and a library school student from Kent State University, both viewing the program for the first time. I'm pretty sure they will attend again if given the opportunity to go to ALA Annual in New Orleans next summer. (Source: Library Cloud) Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:19:00 +0100 857086 http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=2264&cpage=1#comment-1103609 Looking forward to it! Would suggest my library order a copy if I were currently employed. (Source: Comments for Library Juice) Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:28:11 +0100 856907 http://wanderingeyre.com/2010/06/30/librarians-they-are-good-people/ It is humid. The World Cup is on. Women in sensible shoes and cat vests are mingling with NextGens sporting tattoos and dyed hair, all vying for advance reader’s copies or a cold beer. It must be a librarian conference! It has been a couple years since I was really in the swing of an ALA conference and I almost forgot the headiness of it all, the intoxicating sense of being with people who inspire you and drive you forward. Friday, I had a lot of moments that sounded like this in my mind, “I love librarians! I love being inspired by their will to face any challenge. I love talking about big issues with smart, funny, snarky, beautiful people!” Over and over all day. For the first time Friday, I was able to attend the Library Journal Movers and Shakers lunch. This year it was at the National Press Club. As I sat listening to all of the fabulous things the new class of Movers and Shakers did to forward the cause of libraries, literacy, and knowledge I was truly, utterly humbled. It was amazing. They are amazing. Besides sit in that room full of people that are doing astounding things, I serendipitously ran into my first boss after library school. She was the kind of boss everyone should have at their first job. She was encouraging and supportive. She fought hard for her team. She found my strengths and let me follow them, regardless of their actual relation to my job. She spoiled me for anyone else actually. Now, I am blessed that Clara is my friend still though professionally we have moved on. I had an astounding first day and things only got better from there. I felt that I listened more at this conference. I usually have a lot to say, but I felt more like a sponge than anything else. What I heard were the dreams and ideas of people that I regard very highly. I have some specific reflections on a couple ideas, but those can come later. ... Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:57:33 +0100 855933 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/06/30/westlaw-canada-added-search-features/ Westlaw Canada has added some search features: 1) Did you mean? If you misspell your keywords in a search (e.g., “fiducary”), the system will prompt you to see if you meant the correctly spelled word (e.g., “fiduciary”). Interestingly enough, the misspelled “fiducary” still had 5 results which raises the issue if one should always truncate the term to “fid!” (this recalls a library school exercise I used to assign in the old days prior to there being online citators for UK cases – the exercise had students “note up” the famous Jarvis v. Swan Tours decision. I had one student that found one extra case because, for whatever reason, he had truncated “swan” and one of the decisions had it incorrectly with an extra “n”, as in “Swann”). The “Did you mean?” is likely a useful feature and is something Google users have come to expect (admit it, like me, you go to Google and type in a difficult word to check its spelling). 2) Add Related Terms. Simply typing in: > prompts the user with a small gray box of related terms (see screenshot below): Some of the additional terms offered are various synonyms or related concepts such as officer, board, agent (for the director concept) or obligation, fiduciary relationship or trustee (for the fiduciary concept). You then click on individual words or can (although unlikely) choose the “select all” to add the words to your search. However, care must be taken when adding any words to your search to ensure your search remains properly constructed. Overall, a useful feature but likely of most use to less experienced researchers. 3) Results Plus. ... Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:30:21 +0100 857366 http://www.lisnews.org/checklist_manifesto_reference_desk Checklist Manifesto for the Reference Desk "...This is also true of reference work. Some sort of checklist or decision tree is probably covered in most library school reference text books, but I thought I’d take a crack at it. Of course, any checklist like this could vary widely by library, depending on available resources, but the following few questions might help make sure all bases are covered consistently..." (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:27:17 +0100 856898 http://lisnews.org/checklist_manifesto_reference_desk Checklist Manifesto for the Reference Desk "...This is also true of reference work. Some sort of checklist or decision tree is probably covered in most library school reference text books, but I thought I’d take a crack at it. Of course, any checklist like this could vary widely by library, depending on available resources, but the following few questions might help make sure all bases are covered consistently..." (Source: LISNews.org) Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:27:17 +0100 855668 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/06/29/checklist-manifesto-for-the-reference-desk In library near me, the Director did most of the reference work. When she announced her retirement, the staff was worried about having to do reference themselves, until a replacement was found. She emailed me saying she had just read The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande, and asked for my help in creating a “reference checklist” for her staff - hopefully, it would help them cover all the bases when helping patrons at the Reference Desk. I haven’t actually read the book (although did read lots of reviews when it was published), but I think the general idea is summarized in this quote from the New York Times review: In medicine, he writes, the problem is “making sure we apply the knowledge we have consistently and correctly.” Failure, he argues, results not so much from ignorance (not knowing enough about what works) as from ineptitude (not properly applying what we know works). This is also true of reference work. Some sort of checklist or decision tree is probably covered in most library school reference text books, but I thought I’d take a crack at it. Of course, any checklist like this could vary widely by library, depending on available resources, but the following few questions might help make sure all bases are covered consistently: Are you sure you understand the question? Don’t be afraid to ask follow-up questions and to restate the question in your own words to make sure you and the patron are on the same page Is the patron looking for a specific item? It’s okay to use Amazon to verify the spelling of an author’s name or title, and Novelist or other websites to check titles in a series. Once you know what you’re looking for, be sure to check the local catalog, other libraries in the network, and also the state-wide catalog (if you have one) to interlibrary loan the item if necessary. ... Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:08:35 +0100 855731 http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=2264 The Demise of the Library School: Personal Reflections on Professional Education in the Modern Corporate University Author: Richard J. Cox Price: $35.00 Published: June 2010 ISBN: 978-1-936117-18-5 Printed on acid-free paper In The Demise of the Library School, Richard J. Cox places the present and future of professional education for librarianship in the debate on the modern corporate university. The book is a series of meditations on critical themes relating to the education of librarians, archivists, and other information professionals, playing off of other commentators analyzing the nature of higher education and its problems and promises. var button = document.getElementById('facebook_share_link_2264') || document.getElementById('facebook_share_icon_2264') || document.getElementById('facebook_share_both_2264') || document.getElementById('facebook_share_button_2264'); if (button) { button.onclick = function(e) { var url = this.href.replace(/share\.php/, 'sharer.php'); window.open(url,'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436'); return false; } if (button.id === 'facebook_share_button_2264') { button.onmouseover = function(){ this.style.color='#fff'; this.style.borderColor = '#295582'; this.style.backgroundColor = '#3b5998'; } button.onmouseout = function(){ this.style.color = '#3b5998'; this.style.borderColor = '#d8dfea'; this.style.backgroundColor = '#fff'; } } } (Source: Library Juice) Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:27:11 +0100 856912 http://freerangelibrarian.com/2010/06/24/thinking-about-open-source/ Free Puppies, by Flickr user calamity_hane This Monday, 1:30-3:30 at WCC-146B, I am participating in yet another Ultimate Debate:  “Open Source Software – Free Beer or Free Puppy?”  The event features Marshall Breeding and Stephen Abram, and will be moderated by Roy Tennant. It has a hashtag of #ultdebate, and even John Berry will be there. (Sidebar: Berry, how is it that four years is “enough” for our debate when you’ve been writing that column for hmmmm… how long? But no matter…) The debate has the potential to be really dull or unusually interesting.  When I was invited to this event, I was just transitioning from spending a little over a year in a development and support company for open source software toward my new role as university librarian, and Stephen Abram would soon be leaving his high-profile job at Sirsi-Dynix for a position at Gale. I suspect some people expect me to renounce open source (get thee away, open code!), and others expect me to doggedly embrace it no matter what, like those annoying Apple cultics who would devour arsenic if it arrived in a rounded white plastic container with that familiar fruit emblazoned on its bottlecap. At MPOW, I’ve been very busy with urgent priorities, from repairing bathroom exhaust fans and tearing out unneeded shelving to rebuilding relations with campus departments and on to creating Team MPOW — a 100% tech-literate, forward-thinking, entrepreneurial squad of library miracle workers. My library management system… well, it works, which means I can stay focused on other stuff, and its contract is really, really long. That doesn’t mean we have no other choices–there’s always a buy-out, or even a walk-away option–but I am frying all those other fish. (The issues with long ILS contracts I will save for another post someday. ... Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:31:52 +0100 854757 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/cqiFOhn54WA/jobs-director-of-special-collections.html From: STEVEN J. BELL [mailto:bells@temple.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 5:42 PM To: collib-l@ala.org; uls-l@ala.org Subject: [collib-l] Position Announcement: Director of Special Collections, Temple University Libraries   The Temple University Libraries seek a Director of Special Collections to lead the merger and ongoing operations of a new Special Collections division in a library in the midst of dynamic growth, located on the main campus of a vibrant, urban research university that is among the most diverse in the nation.  For more information about Temple and Philadelphia, visit www.temple.edu/about/.   Description: Reporting to the Dean of University Libraries and serving as part of the Libraries’ senior executive team, the Director will merge the collections and staff currently within the Urban Archives and Special Collections operating units.  The Urban Archives include the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection, the Philadelphia Jewish Archives, a growing local television news archive, and organizational records from over 250 regional organizations.  In addition to Rare Books, & Manuscripts, the current Special Collections department includes the Philadelphia Dance, Contemporary Culture, Artists’ Books, Science Fiction, and Conwellana-Templana collections. ... Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:20:00 +0100 854581 http://careercenter.sla.org/jobs/3428079/clinical-reference-librarian US - CO - Aurora, Required Qualifications: •Master’s degree or higher from an ALA accredited library school, or foreign equivalent, by September 1st, 2010 •Ability to search MEDLINE effectively and demonstrate an un (Source: SLA Career Center Search Results []) Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:32:00 +0100 854399 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7463 State: Texas The Texas Heart Institute Library and Learning Resource Center in Houston has an opening for a health sciences librarian with two to three years of professional experience in an academic or medical library or equivalent experience. Reference service and online searching are the major focus of this position. The Librarian teaches classes in searching and accessing the literature. This position acts as the liaison to medical staff, and is responsible for developing and maintaining the print collections. Duties also include ordering, cataloging and processing print materials. The Librarian is expected to have a strong customer service commitment and excellent oral and written communications skills. Search experience with biomedical literature databases is required. Original cataloging experience is strongly preferred. A Master’s degree from an ALA-accredited library school program is required. Starting Salary is within the range $3,610 - $4,513 (monthly) plus benefits. The library has a staff of 3.5. Hours are 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday. Interested applicants should e-mail current résumé to careers@heart.thi.tmc.edu and quote the job title and requisition number (no. 8791) in the subject line. Please mention where you saw the position in your e-mail. For more information about applying see our careers site at http://texasheart.org/AboutUs/jobs.cfm. Submitted on 2010-06-16 (Source: SLIS Careers Feed) Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:00:02 +0100 854239 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7481 State: Utah Southern Utah University’s Gerald R. Sherratt Library invites applications from individuals with vision, creativity, energy, and initiative. Founded in 1897, Southern Utah University is a liberal arts residential university featuring personalized and participative programs. Nestled in the heart of beautiful Southern Utah, famous for its colorful national parks, high desert scenery and home of the Utah Shakespearean Festival, SUU is one of the fastest growing institutions in the state. RESPONSIBILITIES The Electronic Services Librarian will administer and develop all aspects of electronic services including library website, catalog interface(s), and other electronic services following best practices in usability and accessibility; manage Web 2.0 and mobile applications within the library’s web infrastructure; evaluate, recommend, implement and support emerging technologies; gather, monitor, and evaluate usage statistics; chair library’s web committee; provide instruction on tools and software; serve as backup for ILS; assist in developing and maintaining online courses; support marketing efforts. Teach face-to-face and online courses, participate in required academic university responsibilities (i.e. scholarly activity, professional and community service) and complete reference desk and collection development responsibilities. QUALIFICATIONS MLS from accredited library school or equivalent education required; potential for earning tenure; experience in web design, development, graphic design, and video editing software; ability to write effectively for the web; flexible, team-oriented; excellent interpersonal, organization and communication skills; ability to work independently and collegially; positive service attitude. Desired starting date: Fall 2010. Complete job description and application at http://jobs.suu.edu University benefits at www.suu.edu/ad/hr/benefits. ... Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:00:02 +0100 854233 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=ACRLNY_Events_and_Jobs_3_Job_Announcements_C-W-_Post_Campus_LIU MLS/MLIS from an ALA accredited library school and at least two years of public service experience in an academic library. Excellent interpersonal, o (Source: pligg - all) Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:00:27 +0100 854310 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15194 Science and Health Sciences Librarian (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) Library and Information Services DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES: The Science and Health Sciences Librarian works in a collaborative environment and reports to the Director of User Services, who reports to the Dean of Library and Information Services. ... Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:30:02 +0100 854100 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15208 Director of Special Collections (Temple University Libraries, Pennsylvania) The Temple University Libraries seek a Director of Special Collections to lead the merger and ongoing operations of a new Special Collections division in a library in the midst of dynamic growth, located on the main campus of a vibrant, urban research university that is among the most diverse in the nation. For more information about Temple and Philadelphia, visit www.temple.edu/about/. Reporting to the Dean of University Libraries and serving as part of the Libraries’ senior executive team, the Director will merge the collections and staff currently within the Urban Archives and Special Collections operating units. ... Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:30:02 +0100 854096 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=6208 A Master Degree from an ALA approved Library School is required; AHIP preferred. CME experience preferred. Knowledge in the areas of online bibliographic retrieval systems and their applications in medical libraries are essential. Supervisory experience preferred. Serve as an active member of various professional library associations. Over three years up to and including five years experience required. A satisfactory Motor Vehicle Record is required and must be maintained by the employee for continued employment in this role. Southcoast Hospitals Group is comprised of three hospitals located in Southeastern Massachusetts in the towns of Wareham, New Bedford and Fall River. We are conveniently located within an hour of Cape Cod, MA, Boston, MA and Providence, RI. Our compensation and benefits program offers competitive salaries, an earned time-off program, and a comprehensive flexible benefit package with a generous pension plan and more! If you are ready to take a positive direction in your career that will positively affect your life, as well as the lives of the people in your community, please visit our web site to Southcoast Hospitals Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. (Source: MBLC Job Listings) Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:01:19 +0100 853793 http://ricklibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/06/tough-times-thoughts-on-library-job.html Library funding news has been bleak for the last couple of years. Municipal budgets are flat or declining, and loss of funding from state governments is hitting all types of libraries particularly hard. Not many full time library positions are being offered on the job lines. Knowing all of this, I was still surprised by the huge response to the posting of a full time reference librarian's position at my library. In the past, we had never gotten more than about forty applicants for a job that we posted, and even then a third of the job seekers were people from other fields thinking that they could bypass the requirements for library training and experience. After I posted our position in April, I received seventy-eight applications with resumes from fully qualified librarians or library students close to qualifying.Reading through over seventy letters (a few foolish applicants failed to send cover letters), I got a look into the very deep pool of library talent that is currently available for hire. Many qualified, experienced, and creative librarians are currently either unemployed or under-employed. From my reading of the letters and resumes, I sense that under-employed is the new norm for young librarians. Quite a few have been working in part time library positions for several years, perhaps supplementing that employment with work at restaurants, discount stores, and such. Many have been volunteering at libraries or social services agencies that they feel translate into relevant experience. A fortunate few are making ends meet with two part time library jobs. Many get glowing references from employers who wish they could give them full time hours. New graduates from library school have these now experienced librarians competing for the same few jobs.While I did not sense despair from the letters, there seemed to be a heightened urgency to get a library job that actually paid a living wage. The applicants are ready to work. ... Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0100 853759 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15156 Assistant Professor of Library Media/Electronic Services Librarian (Southern Utah University) Southern Utah University’s Gerald R. Sherratt Library invites applications from individuals with vision, creativity, energy, and initiative. Founded in 1897, Southern Utah University is a comprehensive regional university featuring personalized and participative programs. Nestled in the heart of beautiful southern Utah, famous for its colorful national parks, high desert scenery and home of the Utah Shakespearean Festival, SUU is one of the fastest growing institutions in the state. ... Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:50:03 +0100 853091 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15155 Assistant Prof of Library Media/Library Media Program Librarian/Director (Southern Utah University) Southern Utah University’s Gerald R. Sherratt Library invites applications from individuals with vision, creativity, energy, and initiative. Founded in 1897, Southern Utah University is a comprehensive regional university featuring personalized and participative programs. Nestled in the heart of beautiful southern Utah, famous for its colorful national parks, high desert scenery and home of the Utah Shakespearean Festival, SUU is one of the fastest growing institutions in the state. RESPONSIBILITIES Program director oversees development, coordination, promotion and assessment of School Library Media Program including undergraduate and graduate endorsements and M.Ed. ... Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:50:03 +0100 853090 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/06/17/a-new-issue-5-2-2010-of-evidence-based-library-and-information-practice-is-now-available/ Here’s a list of a some of the articles in the new issue. You can find the complete table of contents here. We’ve linked to the abstract and from there you can click for the full text. Articles Include: + The Life of the Space: Evidence from Nova Scotia Public Libraries by Francine May, Fiona Black + Developing the Role of a Health Information Professional in a Clinical Research Setting by Helen M. Seeley, Christine Urquhart, Peter Hutchinson, John Pickard + Learning from Chatting: How Our Virtual Reference Questions Are Giving Us Answers by Lorna Rourke, Pascal Lupien + Evaluating Qualitative Research Studies for Evidence Based Library and Information Practice By Doug Suarez Evidence Summaries + An Awareness of Library Patrons’ Social Styles May Play a Role in Librarians’ Satisfaction with the Reference Interview by Cari Merkley + Sabbatical Options for Academic Librarians in the U.S. Vary Widely by Heather Ganshorn + Library School Curricula in the US Should Address Liaison Responsibilities for Students Interested in Academic Librarianship by Nazi Torabi Using Evidence in Practice (No Abstract; Direct to Full Text, PDF) by Margy MacMillan Much More Content via the Table of Contents Source: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (Published by the University of Alberta Learning Services) (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:33:45 +0100 852996 http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=2245 Ron Day and Hamid Ekbia of the IU library school have an article in the new First Monday titled, “(Digital) experiences.” The article looks at three types of “digital experience” using analytical perspectives on modern “experience” coming from Martin Heidegger and Walter Benjamin. Day’s and Ekbia’s work gets at the roots of some of the things I have written about in Library Juice over the years. I recently read Ron’s book and plan to read Hamid’s book soon. var button = document.getElementById('facebook_share_link_2245') || document.getElementById('facebook_share_icon_2245') || document.getElementById('facebook_share_both_2245') || document.getElementById('facebook_share_button_2245'); if (button) { button.onclick = function(e) { var url = this.href.replace(/share\.php/, 'sharer.php'); window.open(url,'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436'); return false; } if (button.id === 'facebook_share_button_2245') { button.onmouseover = function(){ this.style.color='#fff'; this.style.borderColor = '#295582'; this.style.backgroundColor = '#3b5998'; } button.onmouseout = function(){ this.style.color = '#3b5998'; this.style.borderColor = '#d8dfea'; this.style.backgroundColor = '#fff'; } } } (Source: Library Juice) Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:57:02 +0100 853936 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/pYIl_eE9pus/jobs-position-announcement-university.html     -----Original Message----- From: Peter J. Gilbert [mailto:peter.j.gilbert@lawrence.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 10:42 AM To: COLLIB-L@ala.org Subject: [collib-l] Position Announcement: University Archivist   The Seeley G. Mudd Library at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin seeks an enthusiastic, creative, collegial, and service-oriented University Archivist who will be responsible for administering, planning, developing, organizing, processing, and providing public service and access controls for the University Archives.  In addition, the Archivist serves as a reference librarian and provides service at the library's reference desk, including nights and weekends, in regular rotation with five other librarians.  This is a library faculty position with rank and responsibilities.   For complete position description, see http://www.lawrence.edu/library/archivist/   Required: Masters degree with an archival specialization or certification, from an ALA-accredited library school.  Commitment to high quality public and technical service.  Commitment to outreach to the campus and larger communities. Ability and desire to energetically promote archival program.  Ability to deal with library patrons in a friendly and professional manner.  Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to work cooperatively with colleagues in the library and on campus.  Knowledge of integrated library systems and of electronic production and distribution of finding aids.  Understanding of online cataloging and digital asset management; experience creating digital images and web pages.   Preferred: M.A. or undergraduate degree in history; undergraduate degree from a liberal arts college; experience working in archives.   Salary is commensurate with qualifications. ... Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:01:00 +0100 852737 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/B3Y1a6cIb74/ Note from Michael: This article & interview was originally published last year in Digitale Biblioteek. Seth Godin has been writing and speaking about marketing, the new landscape of the Web paired with emerging social media and the increasing power of consumer “word of mouth.” His books include The Big Red Fez: How to make Any Web Site Better, Permission Marketing, The Purple Cow, Small is the New Big, The Dip and most recently Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us. I’ve been drawn to his ideas and insights for a long time, while working in public libraries to teaching library school. Librarians, library school students, information architects and anyone working to create online community around digital collections and digital library service will find useful strategies and paradigm shifting insights into what works and what doesn’t in a connected society. Ideas have to Remarkable In The Purple Cow, Godin argues that ideas have to be memorable and engaging to grow. Businesses have to stand out from the rest. This thinking is easily applied to libraries and the services they offer: what makes a library unique? What does the library have that no one else does? One answer might be the strength of digital collections and the brains behind them. Localized or otherwise unique digital collections where the curious might explore and leave comments/interact certainly could make a library stand apart. Library staff professionals are also a unique feature of libraries – knowledge, insight and curiosity are traits of some of the best library workers. Sharing oneself online – via Facebook profiles, answering questions on Twitter, or the like is one way to promote and give presence to our jobs and profession. What else is unique and remarkable about your library? Be Authentic In Godin’s work, I also find sage advice for how we present ourselves as information professionals in the networked world. ... Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:20:51 +0100 851842 http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/386 The other day, a friend called to tell me that she was getting published in an international journal. The first words out of my mouth were, “Be sure you read your copyright agreement.” Yup. Not “Congratulations,” not “That’s great,” not “When can I get a copy?” Nope. I am such a librarian that the first thing I told her to do was to check her copyright. I spent my formative years, as most people do, blissfully unaware of the intricacies of intellectual property. In fact, I’m fairly sure I didn’t run across that term until I was in graduate school (my second graduate school). Oh, I’d looked at the copyright statements in books from time to time, to see when they were written, and I’d realized that sometimes the copyright date didn’t really tell you that, because it was the date the copyright was renewed, or it was a copyright for that edition or something. I’d seen the battered paper sign taped up by the copy machines at the public library that gave dire warnings in small print about photocopying copyrighted material. I knew that when my favorite used record store put up a cutout of Garth Brooks saying you shouldn’t buy used CDs, it was making fun of the movement started by Brooks and other artists to clamp down on the sale of used CDs because they supposedly cut into their profits. But on the whole, copyright wasn’t something I ever thought about. The phrase “public domain” had not yet entered my consciousness. How I got from those days copy ignorance to my current state of copyawareness is an interesting, and, I hope, instructive story. ... Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:04:19 +0100 851833 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Do_Open_Academic_Libraries_Need_Academic_Librarians Librarians or library school students could volunteer to stop by the open library and offer their services. The open academic library at CSU, LA is m (Source: pligg - all) Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:00:21 +0100 851328 http://acrlog.org/2010/06/10/do-open-academic-libraries-need-academic-librarians/ I started the day by doing a quick dive into an open course on education futures. Open courses are nothing new. MIT began offering them some time ago, and a number of institutions have followed suit. This one caught my attention because it was being offered by two education gurus in a totally independent setting. I was curious about the curriculum and the platforms they were using to offer the course (a combination of elluminate for live sessions, drupal for the website and discussion board, blogs, etc). It looks pretty interesting, and what’s of greater interest is how easy it is becoming for anyone with access to open technologies to create a course and open it up to the world. Of course, such courses offer no credit, lead to no degrees, and have no accreditation – but that’s not the point. If you want to join a learning community and expose yourself to new ideas, the open course is a perfect way to do it. If people want to create something and share it with others, the tools to do so are now available – and I think we’ll be seeing many more examples of the open movement in unexpected ways. What about an open academic library? That’s not “open” as in “our library is open from 8 am to 10 pm today”, but rather the library isn’t open, so the users decide to create their own library and open it others who want what the library offers when the library is closed. That sounds sort of messed up, but that’s exactly what is happening at the California State University, Los Angeles, where budget cuts have forced the academic library to close several hours earlier than in the past. According to this Los Angeles Times article, when budget cuts forced the library to begin closing at 8 pm, the students felt left out in the cold. They needed a communal space for quite study, computer access, photocopiers, and those other amenities (e.g. ... Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0100 851245 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=6191 This is a one semester (summer), 10 hour per week, paid internship for a student currently enrolled in library school with a strong interest in pursuing librarianship in the sciences. The flexible schedule may include day/evening hours. There is some possibility of extension of the position into the fall semester. Responsibilities: The science librarian intern works with and will have direct contact with the science subject specialists to gain experience working with various science collections. The intern will also have an opportunity to work with the science bibliographers’ group on projects such as an environmental scan of e-science initiatives having pertinence to Boston College, research related to academic e-book purchasing/subscription options, analysis of electronic journal usage data, weeding of print collections and identification of gaps in specific areas. In addition, the intern will have an opportunity to assist in the development of research guides and other instructional materials. The intern will also gain experience and knowledge of current reference services at the O’Neill Library by training at the reference desk and using electronic resources in a highly technical environment. Other project work will depend on interest and skill level. Boston College is a leading Jesuit, Catholic university that enrolls 14,300 students and annually awards more than 4000 undergraduate and graduate and professional degrees. Boston College, in concert with its Jesuit, Catholic mission, is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. The Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). (Source: MBLC Job Listings) Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:37:08 +0100 850959 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/politelibrarian/~3/r0GJ0R06C8w/talk-girl.html Librarians should feel free to casually discuss menstrual cycles, menopause, and feminine hygiene/grooming around the library workspace.  Don't worry about scandalizing your library's male librarian.  He had his testicles removed as part of library school "orientation." (Source: A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette) Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0100 849888 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Library_Wars_Love_and_War_Volume_1_ndash_review_and_giveaway Instead of battling censorship in the courtroom, fights over books involve plenty of guns. Going to library school is like going to boot camp. The h (Source: pligg - all) Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:00:22 +0100 849343 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15057 Branch Manager - Library Specialist II (Bossier Parish Library, Louisiana) Bossier Parish Public Library, Benton Branch seeks Branch Manager. Duties include but are not limited to: day-to-day operations of the Benton Branch which includes being responsible for staff, giving full attention to the task of public service, collection development, marketing the library’s services to the Benton community, handling routine maintenance/repair needs for branch and participating in continuing education activities; must adhere to mission, policies and plans of Library Board. The Benton Branch Manager supervises 5 employees (2 part-time, 3 full-time) and works closely and in full cooperation with other Branch Managers and for Administration. ... Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:50:03 +0100 849102 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15055 Associate University Librarian, Library and Learning Technology (McMaster University , Ontario) UNIVERSITY LIBRARY EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Associate University Librarian, Library and Learning Technology McMaster University Library is seeking a highly motivated, service-oriented and experienced librarian for the position of Associate University Librarian, Library and Learning Technology (AUL, LLT). This is a full-time, continuing appointment, reporting to the University Librarian. The Associate University Librarian for Library and Learning Technologies (AUL, LLT) provides leadership, vision and strategic direction for the McMaster University Library in the development, delivery and integration of new and existing systems and technology services across the Libraries and the University’s general purpose classrooms. ... Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:50:03 +0100 849101 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/2uQ1kY0d5Og/ Lots of things happened at the meeting and even those of us who were there and blogging had a hard time keeping up, so I thought I would provide a week in review of sorts from the Annual Meeting blog posts. Since bloggers are still adding posts (after MLA) I will add their links to this list as soon as possible. Please note the links aren’t always in order of how they were posted on the MLA Blog.  Due to the hectic nature of the conference many people posted about events that happened a day or two ago from the posting date.  True to my librarian organizing nature I have tried to put the posts in some sort of day/event order.  My apologies if it isn’t exactly perfect.  Also people sometimes wrote about multiple things in one post, in the interest of my mental health and the prevention of carpal tunnel syndrome, I am only listing their posts once, not under multiple days/topics. General Information: Those of you attended the meeting (in person or online) have access to the online meeting content at: https://www.xpressreg.net/register/MEDL050/xpresstoolkit/login.asp At that site you will be able to watch the Plenary Session Videos, view the posters and related abstracts, 5 minute lightning posters and abstracts, and section program videos.  I know some stuff is already up and available to watch and they are furiously editing the rest of it so that it is available as soon as possible. Friday: MLA News MLA Green Project - Kraft- Report on the MLA Green Project Award, applications due November 2010, awarded at MLA 2011. Seeing Stars- Leibfarth - Report on MLA leadership development pilot program MLA Rising Stars. NPR Library Tour- Mihlrad- Only 15 people were lucky enough to go on a tour of National Public Radio’s library, read about it and check out Leigh’s pictures. Saturday: General Information and Fun Amy Blevin’s First Post - Blevins- General information post about MLA. ... Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:53:17 +0100 848895 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=my_library_school_sure_has_changed Not only is it now an iSchool, and they’re offering an MLIS [among other degrees. I have an MLib] but they’re making information accessib (Source: pligg - all) Mon, 31 May 2010 07:00:15 +0100 848380 http://www.librarian.net/stax/3247/my-library-school-sure-has-changed/ Not only is it now an iSchool, and they’re offering an MLIS [among other degrees. I have an MLib] but they’re making information accessible and popular. Enjoy this Lady Gaga sendup. Watch for the Nancy Pearl cameo. Awesome job folks. I really should go back for my PhD. Some discussion and adoration on BoingBoing. [via] (Source: librarian.net) Sun, 30 May 2010 15:22:44 +0100 849487 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/05/off-topic-sla-information-outlook-focus.html In late March, I was asked to write the introduction for series of articles in the April/May 2010 issue of Information Outlook.  After I wrote the piece, it was discovered that it couldn't be used because I'm a candidate for SLA's Board of Directors.  SLA tries to create a level playing field for all of its Board candidates and being published in Information Outlook would have provided an advantage to me.  However, since the article could not be used by SLA and since the issue has now been distributed, I'm publishing my article here.  The three articles in the issue, which I reference below, on social networking are:"Marketing LIS Courses with Web 2.0 Tools" by Martin de Saulles"Listening: The Fast Track to Social Networking" by Bill French"When the Crowd Isn't Wise, Trust Your Librarian" by Edward CastronovaAnd who stepped in to wrote the intro in my place?  Dennie Heye. (Thanks, Dennie!) 2008 was a turning point in mass communications and social media.  The U.S. Presidential election, the Mumbai massacre, and several natural disasters around the world demonstrated that we had moved from being informed of events via traditional mass communications (newspaper, radio and TV) and are now relying more on ordinary people to gather and disseminate information.  2008 was also when SLA implemented its own version of “23 Things” and the Innovation Lab, signaling that we needed to be fully conversant in these new information tools.  Now in 2010, we look around us and see old media relying on new media to alert it to breaking stories and to gather information from the people on the street. The idea of a story breaking through Twitter seems almost normal now, yet it was an unknown concept in early 2008. ... Sat, 29 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100 848195 http://community.livejournal.com/libraries/954814.html so I graduate with my Bachelor of Arts degree on May 28th with a less then stellar GPA (2.9 to be exact).most library schools I am interested in require a GPA of at least 3.0 like many of you, I am super interested in the online program through San Jose State University (SJSU). their only requirements for admission (besides promptness) are a 3.0 GPA and a BA degree. no need for the GRE or letters of recommendations, that could have helped me.have any of you been accepted into or known someone who has been accepted into library school with less then a 3.0? any experiences to share?I know there are other options out there, but I would just love to hear others experiences with this. thank you in advance.x-posted. (Source: Library Lovers' LiveJournal) Fri, 28 May 2010 20:32:51 +0100 847997 http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6729330.html?rssid=191 Dean vows to fight decision; only library school in Louisiana. (Source: Book News) Thu, 27 May 2010 07:00:00 +0100 847612 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/mahiOo_ojno/het-leven-na-de-wending.html Op 22 maart kondigde ik aan te zullen vertrekken  bij de Zeeuwse Bibliotheek, op 1 mei trad ik officieel uit dienst. In de tussenliggende tijd gebeurde er nogal wat: M'n blog kreeg een nieuwe naam en een nieuw gezicht Ik paste mijn gebruikersnaam op het web waar mogelijk aan, alsmede mijn naam bij de KvK Ik kwam tot een overeenkomst met BibliOosterschelde Ik maakte afspraken over samenwerking met de Bibliotheek Vlissingen Inmiddels ben ik drie weken verder. Mensen informeren regelmatig belangstellend 'hoe het er nu mee gaat' en 'wat ik zoal doe'.Welnu: het gaat prima met me en ik doe van alles. Dat betekent echter niet dat ik alweer in een vast en duidelijk stramien zit. Mijn nieuwe leven begint gestalte te krijgen maar heeft nog lang geen duidelijke horizon. Daarover kan ik alleen maar zeggen dat het, af en toe, een gevoel van onzekerheid oproept maar ook dat het een prettig gevoel van vrijheid geeft. Het is fijn, om te ervaren dat je niet iedere dag voor negenen naar een kantoor hoeft te fietsen. Maar wat doe ik dan zoal?Ik werk tot begin juli voor Rob Coers. Voor 23 Dingen begeleid ik 20 coaches van Bibliotheekhuis Limburg Zuid. Ik schreef in de afgelopen weken twee artikelen (waaronder een interview met Henk Blanken) en een column voor Digitale Bibliotheek, een column voor Bibliotheekblad en een boekrecensie voor InformatieProfessional Van de bibliotheek Vlissingen kreeg ik de opdracht om 8 Bibliotheekdirecteuren te interviewen voor het project Wiki loves bieb. Die leuke opdracht is inmiddels afgerond. Van directeur Kees Hamann heb ik weer een nieuwe opdracht gekregen. Daarvan zal ik in een later stadium verslag doen. Bij BibliOosterschelde ben ik begonnen op 10 mei. De eerste werkdagen bestonden vooral uit het kennismaken met de teamleiders en andere collega's, en op het verkennen van de organisatie. Inmiddels begin ik een beeld van mijn rol binnen het geheel. ... Sat, 22 May 2010 11:08:00 +0100 846149 http://jobs.nasig.org/?p=775 Head of Technical Services (University of South Carolina School of Law, Coleman Karesh Law Library) The Coleman Karesh Law Library at the University of South Carolina School of Law seeks a dynamic leader to be Head of Technical Services. The successful candidate will supervise the operations of the Technical Services Department including ordering, payment for and receipt of library materials in all formats, planning and assessment of the department’s work, work flow efficiency, fiscal responsibility, binding of library materials, shelf reading, technology, and personnel development. The Head of Technical Services periodically reviews and evaluates policies and procedures relating to areas of responsibility and develops or updates policies and procedures as needed. This position reports directly to the Associate Dean for the Library. The School of Law enjoys a rich and venerable tradition as one of the nation’s oldest law schools. The Coleman Karesh Law Library is an academic, research library with the primary goal of supporting the work of the faculty and students of the School of Law. The Law Library also actively serves the University community, the government, bar, and citizens of South Carolina. Columbia, SC, offers diverse cultural and recreational opportunities, and is just hours away from both mountains and beaches. Required Qualifications: •Master’s degree required (ALA-accredited library school). •Minimum of five years of progressively responsible management experience (academic law library management desirable). ... Fri, 21 May 2010 19:14:32 +0100 846029 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14989 Head of Technical Services (University of South Carolina School of Law, Coleman Karesh Law Library) The Coleman Karesh Law Library at the University of South Carolina School of Law seeks a dynamic leader to be Head of Technical Services. The successful candidate will supervise the operations of the Technical Services Department including ordering, payment for and receipt of library materials in all formats, planning and assessment of the department’s work, work flow efficiency, fiscal responsibility, binding of library materials, shelf reading, technology, and personnel development. The Head of Technical Services periodically reviews and evaluates policies and procedures relating to areas of responsibility and develops or updates policies and procedures as needed. ... Thu, 20 May 2010 22:15:01 +0100 845653 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/05/19/mobile-gale-announces-new-iphone-application-for-school-libraries/ From the Announcement: In December 2009, Gale launched its first iPhone application, helping iPhone users find their local public library. The new K-12 version allows students to find their local school library – (grade schools, middle schools and high schools) and access the vast array of Gale resources the school library has purchased on their behalf. Students can use the application to locate their school and then will be required to authenticate for the school year, using a password provided by the school. “With this new AccessMyLibrary iPhone application, the school library is available anytime remotely, helping to make library resources even more easily accessible,” said John Barnes, Gale’s executive vice president of strategic marketing and business development. “This application is making research accessible to students in the way they prefer to learn, taking advantage of the latest technology. Students are able to access their school’s Gale databases in order to finish homework, work on a project or do research.” Access My Library School Edition ||| Access My Library For General Public (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 19 May 2010 09:02:06 +0100 845228 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=WILL_UNWOUND_116_ldquoAm_I_the_only_Odd_Duck_Who_Loved_Library_--- They bore none of the arrogance of the elite academic world that I experienced as an undergraduate. My library school teachers had been working libra (Source: pligg - all) Wed, 19 May 2010 07:00:20 +0100 845250 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14969 Reference Librarian (Appomattox Regional Library System, Virginia) Location: Appomattox Regional Library System (ARLS): Hopewell, Virginia, and the Counties of Prince George and Dinwiddie. ARLS serves three diverse jurisdictions. Hopewell is an industrial city committed to a redevelopment of its downtown to take advantage of its natural setting and historical past. Prince George County is a growing residential county. Dinwiddie is a largely rural county that is rich in history. From different points in the service area you are within an hour of Richmond and Williamsburg, two hours from the ocean, the mountains, and Washington D.C. ... Sun, 16 May 2010 14:15:02 +0100 844502 http://www.frbr.org/2010/05/14/last-week-in-frbr-23 Learning About RDA Lots of mentions of FRBR et al on the Learning About RDA blog. There is a variety of writers, I think from a course at a library school who are doing this as part of their work. University of Colorado at Boulder brushes up on FRBR Brushing Up on FRBR describes how the 35 cataloguers at the University of Colorado at Boulder are reading and studying FRBR together! They did it in a really interesting way, using digress.it to allow people to comment on each and every paragraph of the report. For example, here’s the definition of Expression, and discussion about it. It looks like there aren’t a whole lot of comments online, but I bet there was quite a bit of discussion in person. I hope it was a fruitful project. Thirty-five cataloguers talking about FRBR — you know that’s going to be fun! Panel participants wanted at ALCTS FRBR Interest Group This hit various mailing lists: Request for panel participants, ALCTS FRBR Interest GroupALA Annual, Washington, D.C., Friday, June 25, 2010, 10:30-12:00 p.m. The ALCTS FRBR Interest Group is seeking participants/presenters for a panel discussion on FRBR, its implications and implementations. All topics related to FRBR are welcome, but given the imminent release of RDA we are most interested in exploring issues other than descriptive cataloging. Some suggested topics include: implications for user interface design and implementation; FRBRoo and the CIDOC CRM; FRAD and FRSAD; overview and background on data modeling in general Presentations should be brief, around 10-15 minutes, to allow for discussion time after the presentations. Please send a brief description of your proposed presentation by May 24, to our contact information below. Thanks for your consideration, Tami Morse McGill Chair, ALCTS FRBR Interest Group Catalog Librarian University of Wyoming Libraries tmorsemc@uwyo.edu tamimcgill@gmail. ... Fri, 14 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100 844440 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14958 Emerging Technologies Librarian (University of California, Berkeley) Marian Koshland Bioscience & Natural Resources Library Assistant Librarian III - Associate Librarian IV (hiring range) $48,029 - $56,496 per annum, depending upon qualifications Consideration given to applications received by 6/30/2010. The University of California, Berkeley is seeking a librarian who is innovative, technically skilled and service oriented, with a background in the life sciences. This person is a member of the Bioscience Library Information Services staff and participates in the provision of reference services to the broad UC Berkeley Bioscience and Natural Resources community and in teaching through course-related and drop-in research instruction classes. ... Thu, 13 May 2010 21:15:01 +0100 843741 http://freegovinfo.info/node/2997 I've been going through documents from the Spring 2010 Depository Library Council meeting from last month and was giddy at finding the following section in the Spring 2010 Library Services & Content Management Update (Statistical findings not bolded in original). DOCUMENT DISCOVERY (LOSTDOCS) Locating all content that falls within scope of the FDLP that has not yet been incorporated into the FDLP is an important initiative. For about a year now, GPO staff have been examining how these documents are brought into the Program in order to track, measure, and improve our business processes. In quantity, the monthly lost/fugitive submissions continue to rise. Last year, GPO was receiving an average of about 80 lost/fugitive document submissions per month. This year, so far the average is about 125 per month, an increase of more than 50 percent. The number of submissions undercounts the titles, because some single submissions for documents can represent multiple publications—it is not unusual to receive an entire web page listing or a bibliography in one lost/fugitive request. GPO staff work to unitize the submissions, research them, and consider each title for possible addition to the CGP. GPO staff are analyzing the current lost/fugitive document workflow, to better understand where a title may get stalled. To establish a baseline for how long it takes for a typical lost/fugitive document request to get through technical processing from beginning to end (with current methods) staff took a sample of records that were cataloged in the last three months. The entire technical process includes scope determination, research, brief preliminary record, classification, cataloging for the CGP, and creation of OCLC record. ... Thu, 13 May 2010 03:29:55 +0100 843612 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/i0UQ1ApoxAQ/ A brief post based on my notes for a short speech this week at Dominican GSLIS New Student Orientation and some reflection on the 55 students who graduated from our program last Saturday: Ranganathan said “the Library is a growing organism.” That evolution continues and you all are starting your graduate library school journey at a perfect time. I was recently in South Carolina, where I found myself in the hotel bar after a speech for the library school. The bartender was fired up about his brand new iPod Touch. He was running the bar’s music of of it via a cable attached to the sound system, and surfing the Web via the hotel’s wifi. He praised the access to the Web and his apps and held up the shiny new device and said: ” I have the whole world of information in my hand.” This is the landscape our new students and graduating students are experiencing.  For many – not all, of course – but for many, this ultra-connected world is the norm and new  devices and services enhance it almost daily. One of my goals as an LIS educator is to prepare my students for a decidedly digital future in libraries. Technology will touch every aspect of library service and operation is some way – big or small – from storytime to book clubs, from research collections to media production studios within the library. Technology allows us to extend the presence of library service and librarians in ways that Ranganathan and Shera might have only dreamed about. But the most important thing is these technologies allow us to extend our missions of service, stewardship and access in surprisingly human channel.  When technology falls away, it’s not a blog, or a Meebo-embedded staffer, or a Drupal reader’s community, it’s simply a group of people having a conversation. For our new students – I wish you great success and urge you to be curious and creative with your coursework. ... Wed, 12 May 2010 16:41:20 +0100 843507 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RandomMusingsFromTheDesert/~3/yW22Oc5OLOw/but-not-professional-librarian-sex.html In case you haven't already seen it: Yes, amazingly enough, librarians (being people just like, well, people) have... sexual thoughts. Read sexy publications. And - gasp! - even have sex! Of course, just asking about this could get you fired back in 1992... just ask Will Manley. And now for something completely different! Are we professionals, or not? Ryan Deschamps poses the question, and (amongst many others) 3 Geeks and a Law Blog chimes in. I'm torn - on the one hand I feel I've worked very hard to get where I am, to be able to call myself a librarian... on the other hand there are days when I feel a trained monkey could do my job. (But not with the same élan!) Make sure to read through the comments as well... and then read David Rothman's rebuttal, too. On reading through Ryan's ten points, I have to admit - they're very good points. #8 (“Accredited Library Schools Do Not Adequately Prepare Students for Library Work") got me - my very first presentation after library school was titled "What I Didn't Learn in Library School." And heaven knows #9 ("Competing Professions Are Offering Different Paradigms to Achieve the Same Goals") impacts me daily... am I a geek in librarian clothes, or a librarian in geek clothes? (Today I'm wearing a Hawaiian shirt. Which category is that?) Perhaps I'll just stick, for today at least, with "yes." (Source: Random Musings from the Desert) Tue, 11 May 2010 22:39:00 +0100 844010 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/VbdYxsPQ5Gw/sunyla-conference-registration-is-open.html Conference registration is now open. Go to http://sunyla.org/registration and choose your registration type. ** Registration will close on Friday, May 22nd at 5pm. ** Spaces in the townhomes may be limited, so register early!  If you have any questions or issues with registration, feel free to contact me at lrath@brockport.edu, or 585-395-2568. The costs for registration are as follows:- Non-member $90- SUNYLA member $45 (membership for your first year is $10, $25 if you have previously been a SUNYLA member).- Library school students who are NOT members $40- Library school students who ARE members $30 On campus housing is available for $45/night. Linens are included, but you may wish to bring your own towel and pillow. Please print your confirmation page. You will need your Conference Confirmation Number if you need to modify your registration. --Logan Rath, MLSPresident, SUNY Librarians AssociationDigital Services Librarian, The College at Brockport585.395.2568, lrath@brockport.edu (Source: Baby Boomer Librarian) Mon, 10 May 2010 14:23:00 +0100 842994 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14911 Head of Reference; Social Sciences Librarian (Coe College, Iowa) Coe College (www.coe.edu) seeks applicants for Head of Reference; Social Sciences Librarian position beginning July 2010 to fill a one-year vacancy. Responsible for providing leadership in reference services, Interlibrary loan and classroom instruction, serving as liaison to social sciences faculty, and participating in collection development. Required: Master’s degree from an ALA accredited library school; three or more years experience in reference in an academic library; college degree or experience in the social sciences; knowledge of web page design and authoring software; coursework or experience in library instruction. ... Fri, 07 May 2010 22:15:02 +0100 842077 http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/05/cla_welcomes_dr.php The California Library Association welcomes Dr. Sandra Hirsh as the new Director of the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at San José State University! Dr. Hirsh's many accomplishments in the field of library and information science for academia, the private emerging technologies sector, the American Library Association and international associations and California communities make her an ideal leader for SJSU LIS in the second decade of the 21st century - and beyond. As a second generation librarian, CLA would like to recognize Dr. Hirsh's connection to one of CLA's most important awards - the Reference Service Press Fellowship - generously funded by Reference Service Press, which provides an annual fellowship to one selected college senior, college graduate or beginning library school student to prepare for a career in reference/information service librarianship. We thank Dr. Ken Haycock for his years of dedicated service and devotion to SJSU LIS, advancing librarianship in California and throughout the world, and wish him much happiness this summer returning to his home in Canada. Congratulations to Dr. Hirsh - and to the SJSU MLIS students, faculty and staff for having such a knowledgeable advocate as their new Director. Together, the work you accomplish will continue to benefit California's libraries and communities for the future. Kim Bui-Burton Director, Monterey Public Library CLA 2009-2010 President SJSU Press Release: San José School of Library and Information Science Appoints New Director Dr. Sandra Hirsh, an experienced LIS scholar and leader, has been named as the new director of the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at San José State University. ... Mon, 03 May 2010 15:50:15 +0100 841955 http://liscareer.blogspot.com/2010/05/may-2010-liscareer-articles.html These articles were just published at LIScareer.com:- Chamberlain, Clint, and Jill Emery. "Mind Your Manners: Don't Be That Librarian or Vendor Representative."- Katopol, Patricia. "Slow Down: Making the Most of Library School." If you're interested in contributing an article, please see our author guidelines. You may also want to check out our career consulting services including our new online portfolio and interviewing consultations. Priscilla (Source: LIScareer News) Mon, 03 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100 841644 http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=2113 The Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) was the permanent structure formed out of progressive political organizing in the American Library Association during the revolutionary time of the late 60’s. (For a good history of SRRT’s beginnings, see Toni Samek’s Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility in American Librarianship, 1967-1974 (McFarland, 2003). Since then it has served as the political “conscience of the association,” applying internal pressure from an egalitarian moral and political point of view (e.g. opposing ties to corporate America) and taking a public stand on many issues not directly related to librarianship. When I was in library school in the late 90s, SRRT’s existence and the passion of the people who worked within its structure were deeply encouraging, because it affirmed what I saw as an important tie between librarianship and broader social concerns. I was energized by SRRT and became active within it. It was my primary place of activity in the profession outside of my job over the next decade, and I met most of the people I know in librarianship in the process of contributing energy to SRRT. I owe a tremendous amount to SRRT, so it is with a sense of, I don’t know, guilt actually, that I say what I am going to say. SRRT has run into a wall. What do I mean? SRRT is the largest round table in ALA (or it was the last time I checked), with over 2000 members. The leadership of SRRT, that is, the people who are active in SRRT discussions, run for and are elected to office, attend regular meetings and make the decisions, are dedicated and passionate people, with strong politics that stem from a sense of moral responsibility. For the most part, they have been involved in SRRT for a long time, some from its very beginning. They are activists, and pursue activist goals within the framework of SRRT, as it was created for. ... Sat, 01 May 2010 13:43:53 +0100 841629 http://otherlibrarian.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/ten-reasons-why-professional-librarian-is-an-oxymoron/ Before you comment, yes, this is an unbalanced look at professionalism.    Yes, I am trolling a little bit – but with a heart that wants to lead discussion on the topic of library professionalism.    Please do write a post about why these ten reason are bullocks. On the other hand, I often see librarians and library school students that take professionalism as a given.   I see this as unrealistic, especially in an era of rapid change.    I believe we are taught about the struggle for the professionalization of librarianship, how this is tied to sexual discrimination, and seem to rely on Ranganathan’s 5 laws every time something puts our professionalization into jeopardy. In reality, it is the exceptions that prove the rule.    If librarians cannot personally address the following anti-professional assumptions as individuals, they cannot call themselves professional.    What I am saying is that the MLIS or whatever equivalent a librarian has on their wall cannot count towards any status in society.   Each librarian needs to respond personally to the following 10 things to claim their status as professional. 1.  Librarians Have No Monopoly on the Activities They Claim You need to pass the bar exam to practice law.    You cannot perform surgery unless you are a surgeon.    You cannot build a bridge without an engineering degree.    Information is free.     Your 12-year-old kid can help their grandma do a Google search. 2.  There are No Consequences For Failing to Adhere to Ethical Practices Besides the risk of being considered unemployable, a librarian has no real professional obligation to adhere to any of the values claimed by the ALA or any other so-called professional body.    There is no agreed-upon process for dealing with ethical breaches, nor an entity to report those ethical breaches. 3. ... Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:57:39 +0100 843323 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/04/29/april-29th-stream.html Shared stupid Facebook algorithms. #facebook change today — I now *have* to link my profile to a network. no more “ask me later” button. [shifted] another #facebook change-FB filled in “likes and interests” for me b/c I don’t list any. not the most brilliant algorithm http://ow.ly/1ECMb [shifted] RT @ftrf: Attention spring library school graduates! Become a member of the Freedom to Read Foundation – for FREE! http://ow.ly/1Eq8F [shifted] Posted zephoria: Here’s the crib of the talk I just gave at WWW entitled “Privacy and Publicity in the Context of Big Data” http://bit.ly/dmbWWW. Posted steverubel: The Case for Converging Your Personal/Professional Networks http://goo.gl/fb/lYyRv. RT @DrWeb2: RT @ChiTribBooks: Literary characters and their modern-day tabloid counterparts http://bit.ly/cxlh0p (via @flavorpill ) [shifted] Posted jowyang: Gowalla’s CTO @SCO says that a taco truck had an ROI of 12 tacos sold to each one given away using Gowalla. Power of word of mouth. Posted NikPeachey: Thought 4 day: There are people who can always think of reasons NOT to do something, but nothing was ever achieved by those people.. Posted scstatelibrary: Twitter Usage In America 2010 — User Statistics And Behaviors — Edison Research http://ow.ly/1ETAF. Posted zephoria: In prepping for ROFLcon, I just watched “The Internet is Made of Cats.” http://bit.ly/9zUQKq My life is complete. I’m officially happy.. this week has been a tour de force for jon stewart and #thedailyshow. well done, sirs, well done. [shifted] Share: No tags for this post. (Source: The Shifted Librarian) Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:56:57 +0100 840154 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/28/peter-gratton-obituary My colleague Peter Gratton, who has died aged 79, will have a place in the pantheon of great county librarians for his role in developing a service with just one purpose: to provide the people of Derbyshire with the best. He was a decent man, loved for the many acts of kindness, both large and small, which he delivered without ceremony or thought of public recognition.Under Peter's stewardship, Derbyshire pioneered the introduction of computers in public libraries in the UK and Europe. He was a leader in the movement to structure librarians in teams and base their operation on the principles of community librarianship. He must have reflected with quiet pride that Chesterfield library, opened 25 years ago, is the fifth busiest in Britain.He was born in Sale, Cheshire, and attended Sale grammar school, gaining his professional qualification at Manchester library school. He was appointed county librarian at Derbyshire in 1970. He saw clearly that the public library could serve the community in many ways and succeeded in making his own service indispensable to the social, political and cultural life of his county.Peter was a good talent spotter. He enjoyed building for the future and helping new generations to take on a leadership role. Unsparing with his time and experience, he encouraged colleagues to develop their talents to the full. His management team meetings often took on the quality of a tutorial from which one would emerge challenged, wiser and energised, but not always having tackled the topic in hand. He was knowledgable about a huge range of issues, but always willing to listen, and ready to take good advice.Peter had a fine sense of humour and was a fount of good stories. No man who could so cheerfully accept a joke at his own expense was ever in danger of taking himself too seriously. He was a keen gardener and enjoyed walking in his beloved Derbyshire and spending time with his grandchildren. ... Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:29:45 +0100 839617 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14827 Oregon Multicultural Librarian (Oregon State University Libraries) Oregon Multicultural Librarian, Assistant Professor, University Archives, OSU Libraries, Oregon State University. The Oregon Multicultural Librarian plays the lead role in collaborative collection development of the Oregon Multicultural Archives (OMA), one of the Libraries’ key special initiatives. Principal responsibilities include, but not limited to, coordinating the development, organization, and promotion of the Oregon Multicultural Archives (OMA) through outreach to alumni, faculty, students, university organizations and other people and organizations; serving as the Libraries’ liaison to the Ethnic Studies Dept. ... Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:15:02 +0100 839480 http://michaelgolrick.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-did-i-get-here.html A while back I stumbled across a wiki based in Britain called "The Library Routes Project." It is an interesting project to gather stories from librarians about why they do what they do. I love this particular quote from the main wiki page:The idea is to document either or both of your library roots - how you got into the profession in the first place, and what made you decide to do so - and your library routes - the career path which has taken you to wherever you are today. As well as being interesting of itself, it will also provide much needed information and context for those just entering the profession or wishing to do so. So, here is my contribution.I was always a reader. As a child, and especially in the summer time, I would walk or bike to the public library in the center of town. It was about a mile away, and in those days kids played outside unsupervised for long periods of time, and going to the library for a few hours was not a problem. It was especially inviting on very hot summer days because the library was air conditioned.In high school, I got my first job. As a "page" in the public library. The children's librarian of my youth had become the Library Director. I suppose that it did not hurt that the mother of the boy next door (who was exactly two weeks older than I) was both the high school librarian and a member of the Library Board, but I was naive in those days. So, I worked my way through high school, usually going to work straight from school, and then heading home.When I got to college (Brown University), my financial aid package included an on-campus job. Sure enough, they sent me to the library. Actually to the Biological Sciences Library. The librarian there was a great early mentor. During the Christmas break at the end of my first semester, the Biological Sciences Library merged with the Physical Sciences Library and moved into a brand new 14 story building. ... Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 840552 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/politelibrarian/~3/Bp55dK7nfbU/stools-kick.html The perfect gift for a newly minted library school graduate is not a Nancy Pearl doll, a book of temporary librarian tattoos, or one of the wonderful items from the Librarian's Guide to Etiquette online store.  Instead, buy your aspiring librarian his or her own library kick stool to represent the big step they are taking from being "a graduate student" to being "unemployed." (Source: A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette) Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 839594 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7224 State: New York The Fordham Law School Library is seeking a Reference Librarian/Empirical Research Specialist to provide reference and empirical research support for the Law School faculty. Legal scholarship increasingly involves interdisciplinary research and qualitative and quantitative analysis. The Reference Librarian/Empirical Research Specialist will work with faculty specifically in these areas, in addition to providing general reference assistance to the Law School community. RESPONSIBILITIES: -Serves as library liaison for faculty members with an interest in empirical research. -Provides extensive general reference assistance to students, faculty, and administrators at the reference desk. -Participates in collection development activities as a member of the Acquisitions Committee, with a focus on materials relating to empirical research. -Creates research guides for locating data sets and other resources in empirical research. -Provides training to faculty and librarians in the use of statistical software. -Contributes to the development, implementation and evaluation of reference and public services policies, procedures, and publications. -Participates, as an Associate Adjunct Professor of Law, in introductory and advanced legal research instruction programs, if candidate possesses the appropriate qualifications. -Reports to the Head of Reference who may assign additional functions as necessary. QUALIFICATIONS: -M.L.S. or equivalent from an A.L.A. accredited library school. -Ph.D or Master’s level degree in Math, Computer Science, Statistics or Social/Behavioral Science or J.D. from an A.B.A. accredited law school or equivalent non-U.S. law degree. -Experience with or strong interest in the application of quantitative methods to social science and/or legal data. -Knowledge of/or strong interest in learning statistical software, such as SPSS, Stata and SAS. -Strong service orientation. ... Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:20:02 +0100 839231 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7235 State: Oregon Oregon Multicultural Librarian, Assistant Professor, University Archives, Oregon State University Libraries OSU Libraries invites applications for the position of Oregon Multicultural Librarian, a full-time (1.00 FTE), 12-month, tenure track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level. The Oregon Multicultural Librarian plays the lead role in collaborative collection development of the Oregon Multicultural Archives (OMA), one of the Libraries’ key special initiatives. The OM librarian is a member of the University Archives unit within the University Libraries. The University Archives’ primary function is to develop the University’s historical records program through the acquisition, arrangement and description, preservation, digitization and display of university records, faculty papers and other OSU related collections. The University Archives also collects and makes available historical materials pertaining to natural resources, especially forestry, and documents the lives and activities of cultural and ethnic groups in Oregon. The Oregon Multicultural Archives comprehensively acquires, preserves, and makes available collections documenting the African American, Asian American, Latino/a and Native American communities of Oregon. The OMA’s diverse collections reflect how these communities have contributed to the identity of the state of Oregon and advance scholarship in ethnic studies and diversity both on the Oregon State University campus as well as on a state and regional level. Working with Oregon’s cultural and ethnic communities, such as the Urban League of Portland and Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes, the OM librarian will work to strengthen the OMA holdings while expanding its digital presence. ... Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:20:02 +0100 839229 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14814 Reference Librarian (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs) The Kraemer Family Library seeks applications from energetic, innovative librarians for a 30 hours/week reference librarian position. As a member of the Reference department and the User Services team, this position is responsible for providing reference assistance at a general reference desk 10-12 hours/week, bibliographic instruction, collection development and liaison with selected academic departments, participation in library policy formulation, and university and professional service. The successful candidate for this position will be appointed as a 75% time (30 hours/week /12 month) nontenure-track faculty member. Initial appointment will be at the Instructor level. ... Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:15:02 +0100 839134 http://careercenter.sla.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=3359827 US - SC - Columbia, QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED: Master’s degree from an ALA accredited library school. MBA or subject master’s degree in business or economics. Knowledge of business and economics library resources both prin (Source: SLA Career Center Search Results []) Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:13:00 +0100 839135 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/bW9K7H0aypo/ First there was my rather tongue-in-cheek post in June 2008 about how DIY-anarcho-librarianship could be called Libpunk if those educators were going to start spouting off about Edupunk, Steampunk, Edupunk, Libpunk? .  I gave a list of examples of library folk doing it for themselves and not waiting to be handed tools or permission, and because I had to come up with something I defined Libpunk as: Librarians using non-proprietary products and groupings not based on institutional alliances to practice their craft and communicate their practice.  Open, collaborative enterprises based not on making money, but often on increasing social capital or extending knowledge Then Amy Buckland offered to make me a Libpunk sticker for my laptop, so the Libpunk Cafe Press store was born. I’ve seen a couple of the products in the wild, like Stephen Francouer in New York’s  messenger bag and Krista Godfrey in Canada’s  laptop ..which made me smile.. Ann Gambles in the UK riffed on Libpunk in a slideshare presentation she did just for fun, Libpunk0.01 . Then a mob of library school students were a bit excited about the whole idea and started a Libpunk wiki, but there is not a lot on it. And there is this Czech Libpunk wiki page that I have no idea about : ) The idea sat around in its dark shaded bedroom in an adolescent funk for a while, but it’s finding its voice again and morphing (yay!) with the new Libpunk Radio Show that started last week, the Libpunk Friendfeed room and the Libpunk Twitter account.  Sarah Glassmeyer and Kendra K are the energy behind the empowering and snotty upsurge, but they are not alone, with more people joining in during the last week. If you want to do some do-it-yourself definition of what Libpunk may be, go and enter the Libpunk Essay Competition on the Libpunk. ... Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:45:19 +0100 838984 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/VP1iUjaO6WY/looking-for-library-or-other-non-profit.html Diane Kovacs needs your help for her LIS class.   Please contact her if you can help.   Good morning Colleagues, I'm teaching two sections of LIS590LWL Web Design and Construction for Organizations - an introduction to Web Design, XHTML, CSS etc. for UIUC LEEP again this summer. I require each student to work with a 'client' to redesign an existing Web site for a non-profit organization, preferably* a special, academic, school, or public library, or library organization.  The course begins June 14 and ends August 6, 2009. Students may also choose the library they currently work in or a non-profit organization known to them to work with. So, if you would like to be on the list of projects for my students to consider please email me with the following information: These are Library School students working through Distance Learning who are just beginning with Web Design, XHTML etc.  What we are looking for is small scale redesign projects, e.g., one area of a larger site - or a new design for a special patron group.   Students will give you a re-design plan and example pages and work that you may use or you may reject their re-design plan.  Their grade is not affected directly by whether you accept their work or not, but by how well they communicate with you and how well they address your expressed re-design, usability, and accessibilty needs. I cannot guarantee that any of my students will choose your projects. Also, some larger scale projects, the students may form teams to work on them.  I cannot guarantee that my students will have any programming skills beyond the ability to code in standard xhtml and external CSS.  But, sometimes I get more advanced students in this course.   What I need from you: 1. ... Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:30:00 +0100 839044 http://futura.edublogs.org/2010/04/26/welcome-to-the-profession-in-140-characters/ Getting Started On Monday, a group of library school students is coming to visit my library, so today I asked my colleagues on Twitter to share their advice to new or incoming librarians. And since @karlfisch said they should just listen to me, I’ll add my two cents worth before sharing the tweets I received on their behalf! If I had to express my advice in 140 characters, I think it would be: embrace the new, support and collaborate with teachers, put students first, always learn, share your passion, always reflect, lead change And here’s the advice that educator colleagues across the globe offered up: (both positive and negative included!) # ayucht @technolibrary Tell them that they will NEVER be bored! overwhelmed, maybe, but not bored. # Mary Woodard MaryWoodard @technolibrary New libns must be prepared to be busier than ever before. Need good ways of coping w/stress of being constantly needed. # LibWithAttitude LibWithAttitude @technolibrary I would tell them to make sure they keep learning and be prepared for anything, being a librarian is exciting & diverse # Rusty Meyners rmeyners @mguhlin @technolibrary IMAGINE nly virt facilitators 4 resrch learng creativity -& fast-obsolete thro-way no-wire devices = no techs ethr # Cathy Nelson cathyjo @technolibrary New librarians/new librarian students–Doug Johnson’s new book is a MUST read (Librarians Head to the Edge) # Naomi Mellendorf nmellendorf RT Consider your personality! It MUST be outgoing, warm, friendly! # Nancy White NancyW @technolibrary insight from @tomwhitby student post, their success will hinge on ability to accept and adapt to change. # libraryqueenn SVVSDLibraries @technolibrary Make sure your stakeholders know what you do for them. ... Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:01:15 +0100 840671 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7174 State: Colorado The University of Northern Colorado seeks applicants for the position of Resource Processing and Description Manager in the Technical Services Department and Assistant Professor of University Libraries, position number F99922. This is a term faculty position, renewable annually, that reports to the Head of Technical Services. The position provides innovative, energetic leadership for a unit that is responsible for the receiving, cataloging and processing of library materials in all formats, including electronic resources and government publications. The person in this position oversees the work of the unit, supervises 4 staff, performs original cataloging, and is responsible for authority control and adherence to cataloging standards. This unit is one of three in a highly collaborative technical services department. This individual provides leadership in the application of technology to the cataloging of materials, including the cataloging module of the integrated library system and OCLC and is responsible for monitoring national developments in cataloging and metadata applications. The person must have outstanding interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively. The person in this position may contribute to reference service or collection development. REQUIRED: Earned Master’s degree from an ALA-accredited library school or program; experience in technical services. PREFERRED: Supervisory experience; experience leading projects or implementing new technologies; experience cataloging a wide variety of formats using LC subject headings and classification; experience cataloging electronic resources; experience with metadata schema; experience with an integrated library system; experience providing reference service or collection development. Salary minimum: $43,000. The starting date is September 1, 2010 (negotiable). Screening of applications will begin on May 10, 2010. ... Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:40:02 +0100 837237 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FlaJobline/~3/egMMmdoVANE/community-outreach-librarian-calgary.html For over 100 years, the Calgary Public Library has helped people write new chapters in theirlives. Our success at bringing Calgarians together with information and ideas has helped us grow to become one of the world’s largest urban public library systems. Let the Library be the next chapter in your career story. We offer a stable, friendly, and supportive workplace, where we value diversity and work-life balance. We need people with energy and passion to help us make a difference in the lives of Calgarians.COMMUNITY OUTREACH LIBRARIANCalgary Public Library is the second largest library system in Canada, and sixth largest municipal library system in North America. Our 17 branches are Calgary’s most-used public facility – visited more often than the Calgary Flames, the Calgary Zoo, Theatre Calgary, Heritage Park and other sports, culture and recreation facilities combined! The Calgary Public Library, through its diverse services and programs, has supported the dreams and aspirations of Calgarians for nearly a century. Over the course of this period, the Library has created a unique identity and special sense of place and possibility, while serving a community that has grown substantially, undergone considerable change, and increased in its diversity. An opportunity exists for an outgoing and innovative individual to work in one of Calgary Public Library’s many locations as a Community Outreach Librarian. ... Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:34:47 +0100 837721 http://acrlog.org/2010/04/18/breakfast-of-librarians/ I feel guilty that I haven’t posted in a while. Weekly deadlines for Library Journal columns have kept me hopping. I should take notes on how Steven Bell manages his deadlines. He’s the ultimate kept-up librarian. But I thought I’d share something fun we’ve been doing this spring at my library – we started a journal club. A couple of times a month, we gather for breakfast in the college cafeteria on a Friday morning to discuss a common reading chosen by one of us. These include preprints of College and Research Libraries articles, articles from Communications in Information Literacy, or (most recently) the Taiga Provocative Statements coupled with the Darien Statements. We’ve been joined by an intern, who brings a fresh perspective from a student who is about to go to library school but is still close to the undergraduate experience. (Maura, we’ll miss you when your internship is over!) We also have recently-hatched MLS who has a sharp mind and has been an excellent sabbatical replacement. (Anyone looking for a top-notch young librarian? Let me know.) These have been such fun conversations, and they have been productive, too. Out of one of these informal get-togethers, we come up with a plan to hire and train some peer tutors to work at the reference desk between ten pm and midnight. Because we’ve had a lot of interest from students in doing internships, and we have a good example of peer tutoring in our Writing Center, we think we adapt some of our materials for interns into training, and provide some reference service at a time when the librarians are ready to call it a night but our students are finally getting a stretch of time when they can concentrate on their research. Our journal club has proven to be a low-stakes, simple, and fun way to do a bit of professional development. ... Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:50:44 +0100 836731 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/arlisnap/~3/-Mij04zG0gs/ Applications for the 2010 Gordon M. Conable Conference Scholarship are due April 16, 2010. Sponsored by the Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF), the scholarship will enable a library school ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: [ArLiSNAP]) Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:29:19 +0100 835663 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14745 Manager, Resource Processing and Description (Cataloging) (University of Northern Colorado) The University of Northern Colorado seeks applicants for the position of Resource Processing and Description Manager in the Technical Services Department and Assistant Professor of University Libraries, position number F99922. This is a term faculty position, renewable annually, that reports to the Head of Technical Services. The position provides innovative, energetic leadership for a unit that is responsible for the receiving, cataloging and processing of library materials in all formats, including electronic resources and government publications. ... Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:35:01 +0100 835271 http://careercenter.sla.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=3346324 US - CA - Los Angeles, QUALIFICATIONS MLS or equivalent from an ALA-accredited library school. Science degree or healthcare background preferred. Strong oral and written communication and computer skills, excellent inter (Source: SLA Career Center Search Results []) Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:41:00 +0100 834961 http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/04/ten-books-meme.html I came across the "Ten Books that Influenced Me" meme from this post by Dean Dad at Inside Higher Ed. The thing that rubs me about people who usually do a meme like this is that they pick highly pretentious stuff. It is usually an exercise in telling the world how well read the author is by telling us they got through James Joyce's works or some rare book on semiotics. Dean Dad at least mentions Mad magazine and Dr. Seuss. I am sure librarians have done this at one point or another, but I was not able to find any with a quick search. Hey, any librarians out there who did do this exercise, do let me know. I am always curious to see what other people out there are reading.Well, folks, I am not listing some big fancy book on semiotics (though I read one or two back in graduate school). I am not pretending that I am hot stuff because I plowed through some obscure critical theory book (yep, did that too), or read some literary fiction that only a few academics know about (yes, read some of that as well). In making this list, I am going for the books that have actually stuck with me and have actually told me something. The ones that actually moved me, or taught me something, or that to this day make me smile. If you want fancy lists of thick books that only a few read (or pretend to read) and even fewer are pompous enough to admit it, go someplace else. Here is my no nonsense list of ten books that have had some degree of influence in my life. They are listed in no particular order.The Bible. Whether people love or hate this book (or collection of books if you want to get technical about it), the Bible has a great influence in society and history. Whether as a force of good or evil, you can't get along without at least some passing knowledge of its contents. Since I was raised Roman Catholic, I had to study this book quite a bit. I am a Catholic school survivor, so to speak. The one good thing I took away from that was the discipline. ... Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:00:00 +0100 834607 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14728 Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs) The Kraemer Family Library at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs seeks applications from energetic, innovative librarians for its Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian position. As a member of the Technical Services team, this position is responsible for managing the acquisition, access, maintenance, preservation and records for serials in all formats. ... Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:35:03 +0100 833856 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/67nMmePwy-s/scholarship-to-attend-suny-librarians.html Daniel F. Kissane Memorial Scholarship Financial assistance is available for a library school student to attend the annual SUNY Librarians Association (SUNYLA) conference at the College at Brockport, from June 16 - 18, 2010. The purpose of the Scholarship is to encourage involvement with SUNYLA and SUNY Libraries, as well as to provide professional growth opportunities to those entering the profession. The Scholarship is a voucher covering: ·         Travel (maximum $ 350) and lodging costs ·         Registration fees ·         Conference meals You qualify if: You are currently enrolled in a New York State ALA accredited MLS program or its equivalent. To apply: Please write an essay of no more than 1,000 words on the following topic: It is more important than ever that libraries respond to the needs of the populations that we serve in order to remain a vital part of those communities. What kind of impacts can libraries have on our campus, local and national communities?  Please relate something from your own personal experience (e.g., an event, an incident, an exposure to a different people, etc.) to one of those needs or impacts, using it to help make your point. The essay will be judged on both content and the logical, literate development of your essay.   Deadline is April 23, 2010, and the recipient will be notified by May 7, 2010. Please e-mail as an attachment (.doc or .pdf) to lougenc@newpaltz.edu  OR send your essay along with your contact information to: Daniel F. Kissane Memorial Scholarship Committee, Colleen Lougen, SUNY New Paltz, Sojourner Truth Library, 300 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY 12561. ... Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:56:00 +0100 833855 http://jobs.nasig.org/?p=735 The Kraemer Family Library at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs seeks applications from energetic, innovative librarians for its Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian position.  As a member of the Technical Services team, this position is responsible for managing the acquisition, access, maintenance, preservation and records for serials in all formats.  Other specific responsibilities include assisting with licensing and consortial agreements, communicating with vendors and publishers with regard to serials issues, maintaining and updating entries in the electronic journal list and link resolver, soliciting, maintaining and distributing use data for electronic resources, monitoring and troubleshooting access issues, compiling statistical reports on serials, and adding information on electronic resources to the III system.  This position also includes general reference desk duties four hours per week, bibliographic instruction, collection development and liaison with selected academic departments, participation in library policy formulation, university and professional service, and research and creative work. The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs was established in 1965.  The student population of 8500 consists primarily of commuter students with campus housing available for 900 students.  Doctoral degrees are offered in engineering, computer science, psychology, educational leadership, and nursing practice.  The campus also has graduate programs in business, public administration, and a variety of arts and sciences areas.  The city of Colorado Springs, located at the foot of Pikes Peak, has a population of approximately 500,000 with tourism, high technology, manufacturing, sports and the military ranking as the key industries within the community. ... Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:22:59 +0100 834347 http://www.cla.ca/divisions/cacul/regenerations/2010/04/conference-survival-tips.html As conference season is upon us, I find myself planning for upcoming conferences and looking back to last year's sessions. My first library conference was the mother of them all - CLA in Montreal last year. At the First Timer's Breakfast, a really great guide was handed out to us with conference survival tips. I thought it might be nice to pass along that list - but of course, I seem to have misplaced it. So instead, I will make up my own list - feel free to add to it in the comments! Some of it might seem like no-brainers, but some are useful tips that might help you for this and future seasons.Pre-Conference:Check out any funding that might be available to you. Will your library administration pay for your attendance if you can justify how the content might apply to your job? Academic librarians often have professional development funds that they have to budget between all the conferences and PD they want to do, but there might also be university-wide funding available if you are presenting at a conference - might be worth submitting a proposal just in case! Often associations you are in will also help pay for conference attendance, especially if it's your first time (for instance, CACUL has a first-timer's grant that can be very helpful!)If you're on your own dime (even if it's your PD budget, you want to make it stretch as much as possible) see if you can find someone from your library, library school, etc that you might be able to share a room with - this can HUGELY cut costs. Packing - don't forget business cards! As for clothing, I've heard that you should 'dress for success' - meaning especially if you're looking for a job, you want to impress those potential bosses you might meet. This is probably true, but as a comfort-first kind of girl, I also advocate for wearing something you'll be comfortable walking around in all day. ... Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 833865