Monday, September 23, 2013

How to Talk About Your Weaknesses in a Job Interview

Info courtesy: ALA JobLIST shared a link.

How to Talk About Your Weaknesses in a Job Interview, By 

Bottomline: In other words, talk about the weakness and talk about how you're controlling it. Continue reading
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Monday, September 09, 2013

Forthcoming Conferences and Professional Development Opportunities

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Thursday, September 05, 2013

Most underpaid, overeducated occupations

Most underpaid, overeducated occupations

Detroit Free Press-Sep 4, 2013
The median annual income of library technicians in 2012 was about $30,000. The bottom 10% earned $18,430 or less. Library technicians are ...

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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Librarian's (LIS) career inside—or outside—jobs in the traditional library setting: Hype or Hope???

This blog is updated regularly, last updated 14 Oct, 2014

Ps. The billion dollar question: Is the LIS profession saturated? If they say, NOPE. Then see the frustration, shock and the rest in the stories below; compare with the responses / hopes / dreams in the next section (other side...):

One side of the story (i.e., the new graduates and those who have completed LIS, but have no leads), Library and information science (LIS) career:
Other side of the Story (i.e., the LIS Schools, policy makers, academics, proponents, etc. who are involved in the programs?):
On the same shelf:
  •  Assessment Skills and the Academic Library Job Market 
  • Most underpaid, overeducated occupations
  • 5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Accepting a Job Offer You Don’t Love, By Heather Huhman    [Re: Wonder is this true in this age and time, of challenges that were never so many? I am not sarcastic. Aren't there applications in dozens for each post (are we still having the luxury of choosers, with malice towards none)? Aren't there shortage of opportunities? Aren't there highly specialized jobs that you need to be picking without love/hate formula?]
  • The Countries You May Like to Go with your American / Canadian MLIS - A literature survey
  •  Factors in success or failure of foreign-trained librarians in Canada
  • "The evaluation of international credentials and the hiring of internationally trained librarians in Canadian academic and public libraries, Keren Dali and Juris Dilevkoa, The International Information & Library Review Volume 41, Issue 3, September 2009, Pages 146-162:
    "This study examines the way in which libraries in Canada approach the issue of the evaluation of international credentials (ICs) held by internationally trained librarians (ITLs) and the eventual short-listing and hiring of such individuals. In the United States and Canada, librarianship, a non-regulated profession, is to a large degree governed by the American Library Association (ALA), but the ALA's statements regarding ICs and ITLs are often ambiguous. It is therefore frequently left to individual libraries to decide how best to deal with ICs and ITLs"
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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Why it matters that you can't own an electronic copy of the Oxford English Dictionary

  @ Boing Boing  Aug 24, 2013
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In my latest Guardian column, I talk about the digital versions of the Oxford English Dictionary and the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, the two most important lexicographic references to the English language. As a writer, my print copies of the OED and HTOED are to me what an anvil is to a blacksmith; but I was disturbed to learn that the digital editions of these books are only available as monthly rentals, services that come with expansive data-collecting policies and which cannot be owned. It's especially ironic that these books are published by Oxford University, home of the Bodleian, a deposit archive and library founded in the 14th century, a symbol of the importance of enduring ownership of books... continue reading + + Oxford English Dictionary – the future, The Guardian 23 August 2013

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Sunday, July 14, 2013

How Break Out of the Library Field and Feel Good About It, Veda Darby Soberman

Extract:

1.Don’t let them call you librarian.
2.Recall the broad core reasons why you chose to pursue a library career, and let those ideals carry you to other related jobs.
3.Pursue a variety of trainings, and apply for a variety of openings.
4.Maintain a Buddha-like detachment from librarianship. Continue reading all the details and much more, How Break Out of the Library Field and Feel Good About It @ INALJ: The I Need a Library Job eResource center! A community of information professionals working together to help you find a job!
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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Job Search Especially for LTs

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Library Technician Job Search 101 OR By Lisa Elchuk,  Ontario Library Association's Access Magazine, vol.19, No. 3, Summer 2013, 22-23
  • Hint number one:  (try to) make friends with everyone.
  • Hint number two: diversify your job scouring.
  • Hint number three: consistency is key.
  • Hint number four: if you are unemployed or even working part-time, VOLUNTEER.
On the same shelf for Library Technician (LTs):
Notes from and for Library Technicians
SHARPENING OUR SKILLS
by Donna Brown
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Reference Process -- Readings

You may call it, Reference Process or Reference Transaction or Reference Work in the library environment!!!
Whatever it is called by the librarians (traditional, modern, virtual, etc.), there is chain process, that starts with the user need, need analysis, need negotiation, consulting appropriate sources, customizing search strategy, search, retrieval, evaluation of search results, modification if required, and delivery or suggesting alternative sources...
"Nearly forty years ago now, Shera (1964) not only foresaw the use of computing to take some of the menial labor out of library reference work, but he also proposed a method for achieving that goal. Shera wrote that “the really great promise of automation is to be sought in… the opportunity it affords to analyze the reference process and re-define reference service” (p. 203). He saw this redefinition as removing the “fetch and carry” aspects, and the potential to raise the intellectual level of reference work. To achieve this end, Shera proposed an agenda for action: first, analyze the processes involved in reference service, and how questions are handled by humans in those processes, and second, create algorithms to represent these processes. Forty years later, Shera’s agenda still provides a sound course of action." Jeffrey Pomerantz, Question Types in Digital Reference: An Evaluation of Question Taxonomies. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.-- Chapter One
Interesting anecdotes about Reference Transactions by Swiss Army Librarian


On the same shelf:
  • A Model of the Reference and Information Service Process
  • 2011 - Crimea 2011 - Workshop New Trends in Reference Services - Sudak - 7 juin 2011
  • Ranganathan Online: Do digital libraries violate the Third Law (of S R Ranganathan, 3.Every book, its reader)?
  • Understanding Reference Transactions: Transforming an Art into a Science (Academic Press, 2002) (1,000 citations supplemented)
  • Reference Interview Stages -- National Network of Libraries of Medicine
  • How to Create a Bibliography
  • Reference Process Interview Flowchart
  • How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography Cornell University
  • MLA Works Cited: Electronic Sources (Web Publications) -- Purdue OWL
  • eight of the 13 steps - Reference Process
  • Understanding the Reference Transaction: A Systems Analysis Perspective
  • The Current State of Digital Reference: Validation of a General Digital Reference Model through a Survey of Digital Reference Services
  • Roles in Digital Reference

    Course Readings at University of Texas, Austin
  • Agosto, Denise, Lily Rozaklis, Craig MacDonald, and Eileen G. Abels, “A Model of the Reference and Information Service Process,” Reference & User Services Quarterly 50 (3) (Spring 2011): 235-244.
  • Fichter, Darlene and Jeff Wisniewski, “Put the `Service’ in Self-Service,” Online 32 (1) (January/February 2008): 55-57.
  • Murphy, Sarah Anne, “The Reference Narrative,” Reference & User Services Quarterly 44 (3) (Spring 2005): 247-252.
  • Neville, Tina M., et. al., “Reference Classification—Is It Time to Make Some Changes?” Reference & User Services Quarterly 48 (4) (Summer 2009): 372-383.
  • Pomerantz, Jeffrey, Scott Nicholson, and R. David Lankes, ”Digital Reference Triage: Factors influencing Question Routing and Assignment,” The Library Quarterly 73 (2) (April 2003): 103-120.
  • Tyckoson, David A., “What’s Right With Reference,” American Libraries 30 (5) (May 1999): 57-63.
  • Westbrook, Lynn, “Virtual Reference Training: The Second Generation,” College & Research Libraries 67 (3) (May 2006): 249-259. (source: INF 382D: Readings)
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