Maybe you have been following this blog since your wee days in library school or maybe you’ve recently heard about the benefits of a library residency program and you’ve decided that, by gosh, you want to be a resident librarian.
But, now that it’s April and you are set to graduate from library school in a month, two months, or maybe six, you suddenly realize that it’s high time you start thinking about how to find your ideal residency position.
Where do you even start?
When it comes to the job search process, …

The University of California, Santa Barbara Library is working with the UCSB Social Science Survey Center to collect data about library resident experiences. This information will be used to develop a model residency program that primes new library school graduates for a career in the rapidly changing environment of libraries. Responses from both current and former library residents are welcome.
Participants will be entered into a random drawing for thank you prizes: one iPad mini and one Nexus 7. An estimated 1 in 75 participants will receive a thank you prize.
This …

The Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and the world’s largest library, with more than 151 million items in its physical collections (including books, manuscripts, prints, photos, film, video, and sound recordings) and more than 19 million items online at its award-winning Web site. Located on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., the Library is also the home of the U.S. Copyright Office, the Congressional Research Service, and the Law Library of Congress and is leading the worldwide effort to preserve digital material through the National Digital …

Guest post written by Ameet Doshi.
Ameet Doshi serves as the head of the User Experience Department and the subject librarian for the School of Economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA.
After spending nearly a year in a seemingly fruitless search for my first post-MLS librarian position, I became frustrated enough to leave the country and wander around New Zealand for almost a year. Thinking back, it was undoubtedly an impetuous but wise decision. I had been saving money for a “big” trip and the difficult job market …

Martha A. Parker, the Librarian in Residence at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and Jeff Banks, the Assistant Director for Library Human Resources and Diversity Programs, co-presented the ACRL 2012 Diversity Standards: Cultural Competency for Academic Libraries, which were developed by the ACRL Racial and Ethnic Diversity Committee.
Martha, a former LB21 scholar, arrived at the University of Arkansas Libraries last January.  Since her arrival, Martha’s work in diversity has been recognized during her presentations at the 2012 ALA-Midwinter Conference, the 2012 Joint Conference Librarians of Color, and her most …