In this podcast: Newbie_Dispatches_7_Nancy_Faget, Nancy Faget discusses the opportunities available to MLIS degree holders in the federal government and how to find out more.
Nancy Faget is an instigator for the Careers in Federal Libraries Google group. Their mission is to promote positions in the government, and to encourage MLIS degree-holders to apply for traditional and non-traditional information positions. It includes various face to face and virtual events included in this Google Calendar.

Newbie Dispatches #9: Sara Arnold-Garza, current resident
Towson University is very happy to welcome Sara Arnold-Garza as the 2011-2013 Residency Librarian at the Albert S. Cook Library. Sara graduated in May, 2011 from the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin where she earned her MSIS. Her professional experiences include library public services, database support, managing volunteers, and non-profit fund raising. Sara holds a Bachelor of Science in Professional Communication.
 
In her new role, Sara will complete rotations during the first year in the three main units of the …

The Newbie Dispatches are a series of podcasts recorded exclusively by the Residency Interest Group on a variety of topics of interest to current and former library residents, current library science students, new graduates, and early career librarians.
In Episode VI of this series, we are discussing critical instruction theory with Dr. Alana Kumbier, Research and Instruction Librarian at Wellesley College.  She is co-editor, with Maria T. Accardi and Emily Drabinski, of a recently released book Critical Library Instruction: Theories & Methods (Library Juice Press 2010), a collection that aims …

The Newbie Dispatches are a series of podcasts recorded exclusively by the Residency Interest Group on a variety of topics of interest to current and former library residents, current library science students, new graduates, and early career librarians.  In Episode V of this series, we are discussing graphic novel reading groups with Bonnie Brzozowski, Reference Librarian at Faulk Central Library, the downtown branch of the Austin Public Library System in Austin, TX.
It is her first professional librarian job out of library school.  She received her Master of Science in Library …

This is the second of a two-part podcast on journal articles.  In the first cast, Kaetrena D. Davis-Kendrick discussed her experience publishing original research in an academic, peer-reviewed journal for the very first time.  In this second cast, we talk in detail with Kaetrena  about the research she published on African American male librarians in Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian.
In her article, “The African American Male Librarian: Motivational Factors in Choosing a Career in Library and Information Science,” Kaetrena discovers some of the motives of African American males for pursuing …