One of the best thigns about not having a job in any particular library is the fact that when I see job ads like this one that Michael McGrorty writes about, I can sit back and daydream about being that sort of librarian. Reminds me of one of my favorite Hal Hartley quotations about trouble and desire.
Tag: jobs
congratulations michael stephens!
Please join me and others in congratulating Michael Stephens on his new job as an instructor at Dominican University, starting this Fall.
job opening for displaced librarian, pass it on
ALA President Michael Gorman posted this to the Council list and I made a web page for it using pasta. Please pass this information, or this idea, on.
Temporary Librarian Position, For Librarian Displaced by Hurricane Katrina
In order to offer support to those in our profession who have been affected by Hurricane Katrina, the Henry Madden Library of the California State University, Fresno would like to hire one librarian with an ALA accredited M.L.S. or equivalent who was displaced and/or unemployed because of the hurricane.
what do people do all day?
Most librarians I know can pinpoint a time where they learned that most librarians have much more to do than just sit behind a reference desk and/or buy books. This can be problematized by media renditions of librarians that highlight these parts of the job at the expense of others, or news reports that view every person working in a library as a librarian. These are hard issues to resolve, especially when you don’t want to widen the rift between professionals and paraprofessionals in the field, and espcially where in many libraries people wear many hats. In any case, since I’m now working with libraries, but not as a librarian, I thought I’d let people know what it is that I’m doing all day lately. My official title is Community Technology Mentor, but really I’m just the Computer Lady and one who works a lot with libraries and librarians.
the librarian shortage in the US and abroad
More on the librarian shortage. Remember, just because librarians are retiring doesn’t mean new ones will get jobs. A great article and post by one of my favorite Australian library bloggers whose Exploded Library blog is now going to be archived by the PANDORA project of the National Library of Australia.