LJ Series "Job Satisfaction": Take This Job and Love It By Andrew Richard Albanese - 02/01/2008
“You don't get rich,” says one librarian from a large university in the Pacific Northwest about her work, “but you are rewarded in so many ways.” Another, from the Northeast, says she enjoys “creating order out of chaos.” Many say they are book lovers. Others love the intellectual atmosphere.
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InfoTech: San Jose State’s SLIS Names Plosker Top Alum by Michael Rogers - 12/11/2007
San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science has named George Plosker, IEEE client services manager, one of its “40 most influential alumni.”
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ALA-APA: Call for Salary Analyses, Professional Development Opportunities Jennifer Pinkowski - 10/10/2007
The ALA-APA is offering a free copy of the salary survey in exchange for a paper analyzing the survey data. It also just admitted its latest batch of candidates for the Certified Public Library Administrator Program.
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MA Library System’s Nonprofit Temp Service Meets Target Lynn Blumenstein - 10/02/2007
BiblioTemps, a library temporary staffing service created and managed by the Central Massachusetts Regional Library System, now runs in the black some three years after its inception.
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I-Schools Form iCaucus To Brand the Field Norman Oder - 08/21/2007
A group of 19 information schools in the United States and Canada, 14 of them with programs accredited by the American Library Association, have announced themselves as the "iCaucus."
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Blatant Berry Blog John N. Berry III, Editor-at-Large, Library Journal April 17, 2008 We Are All Iraqis
Every librarian must read Rebecca Lossin’s “Iraq’s Ruined Library S... More
Blatant Berry Blog John N. Berry III, Editor-at-Large, Library Journal October 31, 2007 ALA neglects the MLS
In an interesting discussion on the NewlibL list one poster said: "ALA does... More
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