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Library Helped Obama’s Job Search

Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in library services, politics and career. 0 Comments

As a reminder that local libraries offer extensive job-search resources, here’s how Barack Obama found his community-organizing job in Chicago after he graduated from Columbia University. In 2005, he told American Libraries magazine: “I probably would not be in Chicago were it not for the Manhattan public library, because I was looking for an organizing job and was having great trouble finding a job as a community organizer in New York.”

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Library Journal Placements & Salaries 2008, Now Online, Finds Library Jobs and Pay Both Up

Published by rwatstein October 19th, 2008 in libraries, librarians/information professionals and career. 0 Comments

Among the highlights in Library Journal’s 2008 Placements & Salaries Survey, more jobs at better salaries, and a surprisingly healthy outlook—despite evidence of longer job searches and more part-time positions. For the first time, the survey takes a hard look at the so-called information schools as opposed to the traditional library schools. And there’s much more, with individual sections on minorities, the library gender gap, job searching and where the jobs are, the changing academic library job environment, catalogers and archivists, public vs. private sector jobs, and on and on.

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Managing Maternity Leave

Published by rwatstein October 12th, 2008 in libraries, librarians/information professionals and career. 0 Comments

Shhh. The secret is out. Librarians have sex. Some of them even get pregnant. Sure, while many librarians are nearing retirement age, many new young librarians will be replacing the retirees. As this happens, we will see a drop in the average age of librarians, which means a larger percentage of potential parents will be in the workplace. Indeed, recent demographic projections show that within the next ten years more than a third of academic librarians will be under the age of 40. Because of this shift, libraries will soon face an intensified staffing challenge, with a significant number of librarians and employees with maternity leave on the horizon. Read on for nine months and nine tips to prepare your organization to survive your time away

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NextGen: Five Tips To Stand Out

Published by rwatstein September 27th, 2008 in librarians/information professionals and career. 0 Comments

I’ve now served on four librarian search committees, and in my prelibrarian life participated in the hiring of a new research associate in the consulting field. There, someone once promised to leverage his “three ears of professional experience.” This alone might not have disqualified him. Many other missteps in his résumé and cover letter certainly did. When writing a cover letter, you want to stand out but for the right reasons. Here are five things, based on my experience, to bear in mind when applying for that job.

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Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know

Published by rwatstein September 27th, 2008 in education, trends and career. 0 Comments

Dual-career issues are increasingly important in higher education today. We discovered that over 70 percent of faculty are in dual-career relationships; more than a third are partnered with another academic. This trend is particularly strong among women scientists and people in assistant professor positions. As the number of women receiving Ph.D.s continues to rise, U.S. universities will see an increasing number of high quality candidates for faculty positions partnered with another academic. This presents universities with a challenge, but also a great opportunity to access new candidates and diversify their faculty.

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