What to Wear
Posted: December 10, 2008 Filed under: Advice, Advice: New Professionals, Fun, Opportunities: Events | Tags: fashion, youth Comments Offreposted from http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2008/12/05/what-to-wear/
What TO Wear
What’s your look? Do you, or someone you know, have a professional fashion sense that you think others can learn from? Do you like to find just the right clothing that combines your individual style with a professional appearance? If so, then you could walk the runway at YALSA’s first ever fashion event hosted by Steven Rosengard of Project Runway Season 4!
We’re searching for 20-30 librarians who walk the walk and look the look when they work with teens and their advocates in libraries! We want to find librarians who can demonstrate how to dress professionally without having to spend a lot of money and while keeping a sense of personal style.
If you are interested in walking the runway, submit the What TO Wear application (file in pdf) along with 2 photos or a short video (no more than 3 minutes), that you think showcases your style (or the style of your nominee).
If you have questions about the application or process contact Nichole Gilbert, ngilbert@ala.org.
Resources Page
Posted: December 3, 2008 Filed under: Advice: New Professionals, Advice: Students, Art Librarianship, Bibliographies and Pathfinders, Education: LIS Programs, Opportunities: Awards, Opportunities: Conferences, Opportunities: Professional Development | Tags: awards, bibliographies, chapters, degree programs, directory, librarianship, mls Comments OffFYI: There are some useful new links on the Resources page:
- an index of chapter awards
- the Bibliography of Art Librarianship by BJ Irvine
- a link to ARLIS/NA’s directory of degree programs for fine arts and visual resources librarianship
Call for Volunteer(s) – Project Leader for Student Outreach Initiatives
Posted: June 10, 2008 Filed under: Advice: Students, Education: LIS Programs, Opportunities: Volunteer, Outreach Comments OffIt was great to meet so many of you at the ArLiSNAP meeting during the ARLIS annual conference in Denver. One of the topics floated at the meeting was ways in which to get more bodies involved in ArLiSNAP via additional volunteer positions. The general consensus was that more people might be willing to be involved if there were a greater range of volunteer positions, both in scale and duties.
To this end, we’d like to announce the first of these volunteer opportunities- a
Project Leader for Student Outreach Initiatives
What we are hoping for with this position is someone interested in taking on the task of researching possibilities for ArLiSNAP to engage more with students. To get us started along this path, we first need to have some idea about where needs exist that ArLiSNAP could fill. This would involve the project leader looking into topics such as what ARLIS’s commitments and current activities are in regard to students, how individual chapters connect with local student populations, etc. The Project Leader for Student Outreach Initiatives could then compile and disseminate this info either through blog posts or a written summary, in the spirit of eliciting discussion as to how ArLISNAP could expand in this direction.
Anyone with even mild curiosity or interest about this position is welcome to leave a comment. If you think you might be interested in this position but would like to work on it with others, we’d be into that too. Or if you think another topic would benefit from similar inquiry, feel free to suggest it.
Strategies for First-Time Conference Presenters
Posted: March 20, 2008 Filed under: Advice Comments OffThe Chronicle of Higher Education has been running a series called “Conference Rules” recently. Part one was for moderators, and part two addresses panel speakers. First-timers and veterans alike will be interested in Linda Kerber’s article.
Are you nervous? Good. You should be. Anxiety means you are taking the enterprise seriously and your adrenalin is flowing. Without adrenalin you will be a boring speaker.
Read on further, and Kerber manages to bring in a reference to the cast members of the Broadway musical Hair; part of their job as actors requires that they streak through the audience without clothes. The author asks how they find the courage to (literally) bare themselves to the audience, and recommends that conference speakers courageously consider the audience as their friends.
Do you remember the first time you presented a professional paper to colleagues? Comment below if you have advice for giving successful conference presentations.
Want to Learn More about Being a Librarian?
Posted: March 12, 2008 Filed under: Advice: Students, Education: LIS Programs, Opportunities: Networking Comments OffMove Forward With Your Library Career – Stop Fooling Around with Your Future
Learn more about this event.
| When? | Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM |
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| Where? | NSLS – Auditorium, Wheeling, IL |
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| Cost | Free |
Realize your dreams by getting advice and guidance from a panel of current students and recent alumni, and a second panel of admission representatives from Dominican University, University of Illinois, and the University Center of Lake County. Their presentations will help you:
• Understand the value of the MLIS degree
• Prepare for admission
• Determine your learning style (online or face to face)
• Balance your work, life, and educational needs
• Become a degreed professional
Agenda
4:00 – 4:15 p.m. Welcome
4:15 – 5:00 p.m. Student and Alumni Panel Presentation
5:00 – 5:45 p.m. Admissions Representatives Panel
5:45 – 6:30 p.m. Networking
10 Questions to ask your new employees…
Posted: February 1, 2008 Filed under: Advice, management, Professional Literature, Journals, Publications 2 Comments »There’s a great post on Library Garden that lists 10 questions that managers should ask new hires. I love the spirit of this post, because it suggests that managers should be open to the fresh perspective of a new employee, and should take his/her observations as an opportunity for improvement. I imagine that if my employer asked me these questions, I’d also immediately feel as if my opinions were important to the organization. What a great way to feel welcomed!
Just something for all of us students/young professionals to mull over…
Getting Involved and Conference Attendance for “Newbies”
Posted: November 29, 2007 Filed under: Advice, ALA Comments OffThe ACRL Blog has a piece about new members attending ALA’s Midwinter conference by Josh Petrusa titled “Attempt at Midwinter.”
In youthful naiveté, I assumed being a new member of the profession (and ALA) that I would just go to Midwinter, attend some stuff, get involved, etc.
There’s been some really good feedback in the Comments about whether section meetings are open to non-members, attending as many discussion groups as you want, and interacting with vendors.
See previous comments on ArLiSNAP about volunteering for ARLIS/NA committees, volunteering for Chapter committees, and volunteering at the conference registration desk. If you have additional ideas, please add a comment below!
ARLIS/NA Reviews: Call for Reviewers
Posted: November 6, 2007 Filed under: Opportunities: Calls for Papers, Publication Comments OffFor the next “column” of ARLIS NA Reviews [http://www.arlisna.org/resources/reviews/index.html], I am seeking ARLIS NA members to review the titles that appear at the end of this email. The deadline for submission of a 450-word review is Friday,
December 21. The title will be mailed to you, with instructions for completing your review.
If you are interested, email me no later than Friday, November 9, with the following information:
Your Name:
Your Email:
Previous Writing Experience:
Areas of Subject Expertise:
Mailing Address (to which you would like the book mailed; include street address for UPS delivery):
And here is the list of titles that I’m hoping to match to reviewers:
- Antonio Mancini: Nineteenth-Century Italian Master by Ulrich W. Hiesinger [Yale University Press; 144 p.]
- Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities by Laura E. Perez [Duke University Press; 408 p.]
- The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism Since the French Revolution by Dario Gamboni [University of Chicago Press; 416 p.]
- The Life & The Work: Art and Biography edited by Charles G. Salas [Getty Research Institute; 176 p.]
- Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 by John Clarke [University of California Press; 321 p.]
- The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype to Dry Plate, 1839-1885: The Hallmark Collection… by Keith F Davis [Yale University
Press; 360 p.] - Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florance by Patricia Lee Rubin [Yale University Press; 418 p.]
- Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond edited by Eduardo Kac [MIT Press; 430 p.]
- The Society Portrait From David to Warhol by Gabriel Badea-Paun [Vendome Press; 223 p.]
- Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson edited by Madeleine Grynsztejn [Thames & Hudson; 278 p.]
- The Triumph of Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant-Garde 1922-1947 by Parha Mittter [University of Chicago Press; 256 p.]
- Ultra Materials: How Materials Innovation is Changing the World by George Beylerian and Andrew Dent [Thames & Hudson; 288 p.]
- What Makes a Great Exhibition? edited by Paula Marincola (Reaktion Book;176 p.]
Thanks!
Joan Stahl
Review Editor, ARLIS NA Reviews
Recent MLS Graduate Chronicles Academic Librarian Job Search
Posted: November 1, 2007 Filed under: Academic Librarianship, Advice: New Professionals Comments OffArLiSNAPers may be interested in following Maura Smale’s articles at the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Chronicle Careers. She is writing a series of articles this year about her search for a tenure-track academic library position. Her first article, Gearing Up for My Third Career, provides thoughtful documentation of how she decided to pursue an MLS after two other career paths.
The Chronicle Careers has a News and Advice section which provides candid information on topics such as promotion and tenure, department politics, and developing your CV. Subscribe to it via RSS.
ARLIS/NE career panel podcast
Posted: August 8, 2007 Filed under: Advice, Advice: New Professionals, Advice: Students 1 Comment »On July 17th Panopticon (the Simmons GSLIS art library interest group) and ARLIS/NE co-hosted a career panel at Simmons. 38 graduate students and art library enthusiasts came on a beautiful summer evening to hear five librarians talk about their career paths in art librarianship and offer advice to those just entering the profession.
I’d like to thank my fellow panelists for participating:
Deborah Barlow Smedstad, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Rachel Beckwith, Simmons GSLIS West and ARTstor
Robert Burton, Weissman Preservation Center at Harvard University
Brooke Henderson, Wellesley College
They were frank, entertaining, and fascinating.
I would also like to extend a special thanks to Anne Reid and Martha Mahard at Simmons College and Darin Murphy from Panopticon.
If you’re sorry you missed the event, it’s not too late. The podcast is available at http://gslis.simmons.edu/podcasts/
rachel resnik
technical services librarian
massachusetts college of art + design
621 huntington avenue
boston, ma 02115
Library Salary Database
Posted: May 23, 2007 Filed under: Advice: New Professionals, Salaries Comments OffGraduating students: There is a new resource, the Library Salary Database, which can help you in your job search. The Library Salary Database includes aggregated data from 10,631 actual salaries for six librarian positions in 1053 public and academic libraries. This source is available until the end of June for only $30 for a 30+ day subscription -
http://cs.ala.org/websurvey/salarysurvey/salarysurveyform/form.cfm
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Summary of Backpack to Briefcase: Life after Library School
Posted: May 2, 2007 Filed under: 2007 ARLIS/NA Conference Atlanta, Advice: New Professionals, Advice: Students, Alternative Careers, ARLIS/NA, ArLiSNAP, Art Librarianship, Employment Resources, Publication 1 Comment »Backpack to Briefcase: Life after Library School.
Sarah Carter Moderator Introduced the session saying this session was born from the conference last year at Banff, and envisioned something that would help students, and new professionals jumpstart their role in ARLIS. Read the rest of this entry »
Book Review Link: Rethinking Information Work
Posted: April 19, 2007 Filed under: Advice: New Professionals, Advice: Students, Professional Literature, Journals, Publications 1 Comment »Rethinking Information Work
Submitted by Informant on Fri, 04/13/2007 – 3:48pm. The Informant By Kathleen Swantek, Research Associate, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute
“Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation.”–Aristotle
This is just one of several quotes used to introduce chapters and set the tone in G. Kim Dority’s recent book, Rethinking Information Work: A Career Guide for Librarians and Other Information Professionals (Libraries Unlimited, 2006).
If you’ve been spending some time this spring thinking about your career—or if you’ve already decided it’s time for a career shift—Rethinking Information Work is a book you’ll want to spend some quality time with. Even if you think you’ve landed the perfect job, this book is worth your time.
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Net reputations ruin job hopes
Posted: April 2, 2007 Filed under: Advice: New Professionals, Advice: Students, Blogs, Employment Resources 3 Comments »Blogging and social network bloopers can hurt your employability
By Tim Ferguson
Published: Wednesday 28 March 2007
From Silicon.com
http://management.silicon.com/careers/0,39024671,39166575,00.htm
Networking 101
Posted: March 22, 2007 Filed under: Advice: New Professionals, Advice: Students 4 Comments »With conference season upon us (VRA starts next Tuesday, and ARLIS/NA in less than a month!) I thought it would be interesting to get different tips on networking . . .
- Which strategies have you found to be positive in past experience?
- What are some things to avoid when you are networking?
- What’s the most beneficial outcome you’ve experienced from networking?
Please feel free to share your thoughts for the benefit of ArLiSNAP collective wisdom!
Career Strategies for Students and New Librarians
Posted: March 2, 2007 Filed under: Advice: New Professionals, Advice: Students Comments OffI want to draw attention to Rachel Singer Gordon’s excellent post at the Liminal Librarian blog. Her Making our Careers Happen post references Meredith Farkas’ Making Things Happen! post at the Information Wants to Be Free blog.
Rachel is also the author of The NextGen Librarian’s Survival Guide, as well as a plethora of other publications on starting a career in librarianship. Many of her tips are worth implementing for those trying to break into the art librarianship field!
Corporate Art/Architecture Librarianship
Posted: February 16, 2007 Filed under: Advice: New Professionals, Advice: Students, Architecture Librarianship, Employment Resources 2 Comments »My question to Samantha, MLS student and corporate librarian in an architecture firm:
Are corporate positions advertised in library job listings or in listings for
architects or somewhere else entirely?
Samantha’s reply:
I ended up stumbling backwards into my position, promoted
from office manager, which I just found on Craigslist. I had 3 library
classes down, and A LOT to learn. I am uncertain as to how/where they
recruited the previous librarian — Perhaps in the New York Times –
which is where we usually hire from. I recently hired a new full time
assistant, and I posted the ad to area library schools, area art
schools, SLA Philadelphia chapter, and the Philadelphia Cultural
Alliance website (philaculture.org) — the last was the winning
location. I don’t see jobs like mine advertised too often, but I have
seen listings either come through across SLA SoloLib or the
Architecture, Building Engineering, Construction and Design caucus of
SLA. Also, I have seen library staffing companies hiring for similar
positions. I bet the Architecture Roundtable of SAA is also another
source, as I have several colleagues in firms that I have made contact
with through there.
My firm is very into being at the cutting edge of the research field, so
they’re starting to get that having their library be at the forefront
helps them attain their goals. I take a very academic approach to my
position, and the firm is starting to support for my involvement in the
greater community –like I’m getting sent to SEI this summer. I share a
lot of the same woes as expressed in the round of job category emails,
as sometimes the library is outnumbered here 70:1 and it can be very
hard to get the resources and attention that I need. Things like OPACs
and automation systems are considered a frill here, as I have heard
echoed by other colleagues at other firms, as well. So I’m still a
little resource starved, but I believe in time I will get what I need –
But I believe a certain sense of salesmanship and self-promotion will be
needed in any library position.
S.
ARLIS-STC – Students and Trainees News Jan/Feb 2007
Posted: February 6, 2007 Filed under: Advice: New Professionals, Employment Resources, Opportunities: Conferences, Opportunities: Events, Opportunities: Grants, Student Organizations Comments OffIn October the Student and Trainees Committee ran its regular event “An Introduction to Art and Design Reference Resources” which gave an introduction to online and print resources and answering enquiries in the subject. The day was a great success and we’d like to thank the speakers and our host the National Art Library.
Events for 2007
It’s the start of a new year and a good time to get a run down on some of the other talks, conferences and events that students, trainees and library assistants could attend over the next 12 months.
Finding out about careers
The ARLIS Student and Trainees Committee will, of course, be holding its popular annual event “Taking the Plunge: Art Librarianship as a Career Option,” which provides insights and advice on starting out and working in the sector. Past speakers have included representatives from a museum library, slide library, and the commercial sector, as well as a recently retired librarian, and a recent graduate. The event will be held on Saturday 3rd March at the National Gallery, London. Look out for more details coming soon on the ARLIS website and discussion list.
The Career Development Group of CILIP holds regular events around the country throughout the year. Of particular relevance is their National Student Conference, which offers the chance to hear from information professionals working in various different sectors and to network with other students and recent graduates of LIS courses. The one-day student conference was held last year in November, and the Group hopes to run the event again in 2007.
http://www.careerdevelopmentgroup.org.uk/
Another event that may crop up in 2007 is the open day held jointly by the Association of UK Media Librarians (AUKML) and the Industrial and Commercial Libraries Group (ICLG). This day is aimed at graduate trainees, first jobbers and library students. The day includes talks by information professionals from all parts of the workplace sector, offering tips on finding jobs in their area and talking about their working day. Past speakers have included representatives from the BBC and the Guardian, as well as law firms and Government departments.
Conference Bursaries
ARLIS offers a student bursary each year to attend its annual conference, which this year will be held at the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham, from 4-6 July. Other conferences of interest include the Digital Resources for the Arts and Humanities (DRHA) conference and the Computers and the History of Art (CHArt) conference, which have both offered student bursaries in recent years. DRHA will be held on 9-12 September at the University of Sheffield and the CHArt conference is usually held each year in November. The bursaries are offered by the AHRC ICT Methods Network and are available to UK-based postgraduate students who’ve had a paper or poster accepted at DRHA or would like to attend CHArt.
http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/community/postgraduates.html
Finding out about LIS qualifications
If you’re considering applying to library and information courses, it’s worth looking out for a couple of events organised by CPD25. The group usually holds an event each year which provides information on applying to study LIS, with speakers from CILIP, UK Library Schools, a LIS graduate, and a head of service. The group also holds a development day for library assistants, aimed at those who are considering their options for obtaining qualifications whilst working. CPD25 events are provided in the first instance for staff working in the member institutions of the M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries, but non-members are normally able to attend at a slightly higher fee.
Art/Museum Librarian Student Group
Posted: February 1, 2007 Filed under: Advice: Students, Student Organizations 2 Comments »I would like to create an Art/Museum Librarian Student Group at my Library Graduate School. What would be the best manner of going about this?
