Brianna Rogers will be the University at Albany Libraries’ third summer visitor this year. Brianna is a second-year undergraduate student at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a participant in The Mellon Librarian Recruitment Program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Brianna started her internship yesterday in the University Library’s Circulation and Media Services Department. In the near future, she will also be working in the Dewey Graduate Library.
Brianna enjoys baking brownies and chocolate chip cookies and spending time with her black kitty named Princess. Her other hobbies include watching funny movies such as Meet the Parents and listening to music artists, John Legend and Destiny’s Child. Her work experience includes working in the Johnson C. Smith Library as a Student Assistant; serving as a Program Assistant at O.D. Heck; and, assisting shoppers at BJ’s Wholesale Club and Old Navy.
A little bit of information about the Mellon Librarian Recruitment Program…(from http://www.oberlin.edu/library/mellon/ )
The Mellon Librarian Recruitment Program began in June 2003 when Oberlin College received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The purpose of the Mellon Librarian Recruitment Program is to encourage talented and diverse undergraduates to pursue jobs in libraries.
The program aims to increase the number of librarians available to fill the projected national shortage of librarians due to retirements. Expanding the racial and ethnic diversity of librarians is also an objective of the program. Currently, the percentage of people of color working in libraries is not proportionate to the number of people of color nationally.
Through experience in and multifaceted exposure to library work, students will become aware of the variety of options available to them in this evolving career field. …

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Position Vacancy Listing
PVL# 61822

Working title:

Librarian

Official title:

ASSOC SPEC Librarian(T23FN)

Degree and area of specialization:

Master’s Degree from an American Library Association (ALA)-accredited library school required.

Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience:

Required: demonstrated interest in and enthusiasm for contemporary children’s and young adult literature and related issues; willingness and ability to read widely in order to regularly offer assessments of new books for children and teens; cataloging knowledge; demonstrated oral and written communication skills; strong administrative and organizational skills; demonstrated ability to respond quickly to diverse needs of constituents; demonstrated ability to succeed in a collaborative work environment; ability to prioritize work as library needs shift and still meet required deadlines; ability to focus in a busy and varied work environment; ability to travel to attend occasional statewide and national conferences; experience and comfort with typical office and library technologies.

Desired: knowledge of contemporary children’s and young adult literature; knowledge of and interest in evaluation issues related to multicultural literature and intellectual freedom issues affecting schools and libraries; experience providing reference in a library setting; practical cataloging experience.

Principal duties:

Children’s and Young Adult Literature Information Service Responsibilities:

Staff the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) reference desk and provide reference service to patrons, including UW-Madison faculty and students and librarians and teachers across Wisconsin in need of general library assistance.

Assist with planning and facilitating monthly CCBC-Net (listserv) discussions.

Assist with planning and delivering presentations to UW-Madison and other college and university classes and other adults who visit the CCBC. …

I’ve been reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers for the past few days, and I love it. I loved The Tipping Point, wasn’t quite as enamored with Blink, so I’m glad to be back in the fan club. In case you’re not familiar with the premise of Gladwell’s newest book, he examines people who are incredible successes within their specific context. He draws some really interesting conclusions about how success is attained by examining cultural, historical, and familial context. He doesn’t deny that wildly successful people are intelligent, ambitious, and good at what they do. He just adds to the picture, indicating that those traits aren’t enough for wild success and that we need to give credit to a broader context in addition to the individual.
So I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be born in the late 70s/early 80s, what it meant to grow up in the 80s, go to college in the 90s, and begin working in the 2000s. And so far, the clearest (and most obvious) cultural shift is how the internet shapes one’s perception of what is possible.
Over and over again, I’ve thought about how I’ve been allowed to do things at this point in my career that I never in my wildest dreams thought I’d be able to accomplish by the time I turned 30. And it’s not just me. Many of my professional friends have had the same experience. I know that most of the things I’ve gotten to do have come through contributing in one online forum or another.
My blog started conversations with people that I didn’t think would even notice that I had anything to say way back when I was just starting library school. …

…applying what I learned at Computers in Libraries 2009

Have you ever cleaned papers off your desk, only to find lurking at the very bottom that list of nifty ideas from that awesome conference you attended months ago? It’s easy enough to report what was seen and heard at a conference; it’s more difficult to apply that knowledge and demonstrate its application. Life and work inertia typically get in the way, even at institutions that welcome new ideas. The Computers in Libraries 2009 conference was a month ago. Have I applied what I learned there? The answer, not surprisingly, is “yes and no.” Here is a brief summary of the takeaways from my favorite session at this year’s CIL—and what I have (or haven’t!) done with them.

“Free” as in “freedom”

Eric Lease Morgan kicked off the “Open Libraries” track with a talk defining open source software and elucidating what it takes for a library to support open source software. Morgan is a long-time advocate and user of open source software in libraries. The relatively recent open source movement in libraries is certainly growing, but as Morgan pointed out, open source is not new, nor is it particularly new in libraries. Many programs that comprise much of the internet—and, therefore, the backbone of the modern library—are open source, including sendmail and the web server Apache.

Morgan began his talk by defining open source software. Many people associate open source with “free,” as in lack of a purchase price. “Free,” when used in reference to open source software should be equated with “freedom,” not price. This software, free as in “free speech,” is software with which we are free to do as we please. [1] We can download and install open source software; we can make changes to its code and contribute those changes for anyone to implement. …

My friend Larry Cooperman is teaching a month-long course, Managing the One-Person Library, at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts in July. It is only US0 (0 for Simmons library school alumni), which is a great price for this much continuing education. I am very happy that Larry is taking up the OPL workshop mantle from me, now that I’ve retired.Larry is the library director at the (Source: OPL Plus (not just for OPLs anymore))

The NN/LM SCR is now accepting applications for the 2009 Library Student Outreach funding opportunity.  The purpose of this award is to promote the value of outreach to library school students interested in health sciences librarianship.
The award provides funding for students to attend and participate in NN/LM SCR outreach activities at the South Central Chapter [...] (Source: Network News)

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