Hire Me! Job Searching Workshop PPT file attached

Jacy K. Bell has provided the — hire-me_finding-a-library-job-presentation_fall082.  Thanks, Jacy!

Mark your calendars!

Job opening at UA Phoenix (non library)

The College of Medicine-Phoenix, Office of Multicultural Affairs is currently recruiting for an Administrative Assistant.

 Position Highlights:
The Administrative Assistant will support the coordination of recruitment activities and provide general assistance to the Associate Director in the Office of Multicultural Affairs. This program provides experiences and career enhancing activities for high school students interested in a career in medicine. The qualified candidate will have strong organizational skills, effective communication, and will project professionalism and demeanor in daily interactions with our diverse community of students, faculty, and staff.

 For complete details and to apply for this position, please visit www.uacareertrack.com
Location:  Phoenix
Job#: 42251

The Future of the Internet III (via Roy Tennant’s Digital Libraries column…)

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released their third “canvassing of Internet specialists and analysts,” “The Future of the Internet III.” They are quick to point out, however, that this is not a representative survey, as respondents could choose to respond or not.

Of the results to various scenarios put forward by the Pew researchers, only one seemed to have any significant weight of opinion. In responding to the scenario “The mobile phone is the primary connection tool for most people in the world,” 81% of the total respondents (which included “stakeholders” in addition to “experts”) agreed.

For other scenarios such as “Social tolerance has advanced significantly due in great part to the Internet,” and “Content control through copyright-protection technology dominates,” there was much less agreement.

What I found more interesting than the results themselves, however, were the comments….see entire piece HERE.

NLM Associate Fellows Program Seeking Fellowship Applicants

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is accepting applications for its Associate Fellowship program, a one-year training program for recent MLS graduates and librarians early in their career.

 

In the first half of the year, a formal curriculum offers exposure to library operations, research and development, intramural and extramural research, development and lifecycle of NLM’s web-based products and services and the extensive outreach and education program reaching consumers, special populations, health professionals and librarians. In the second half of the year, Associate Fellows have the opportunity to choose projects based on real-world problems proposed by library divisions and work with librarians and library staff over a six-seven month period. Successful projects have led to peer-review publications and to services that have become a regular part of library operations.

 

The September through August program also offers professional development and an introduction to the wider world of health sciences librarianship that may include:

·        Supported attendance at national professional conferences, often including the Medical Library Association’s annual meeting, the American Medical Informatics Association annual meeting and others

·        One week Spring Practicum at a health sciences library in the contiguous United States

·        Additional brown bags, seminars, field trips and learning opportunities available on the National Institutes of Health campus

·        Opportunities to meet and interact with senior management at the National Library of Medicine

·        Experienced preceptors from National Library of Medicine staff

·        Potential to compete for a second year fellowship at a health sciences library in the United States

 

The Fellowship offers:

·        A stipend equivalent to a U.S. Civil Service salary at the GS-9 level ($48,108.00 in 2008)

·        Additional financial support for the purchase of health insurance

·        Some relocation funding

·        Assistance in finding housing

 

Who is eligible?

All U.S. and Canadian citizens who will have earned a MLS or equivalent degree in library/information science from an ALA-accredited school by August 2009.  Both recent graduates and librarians early in their career are welcome to apply.  Priority is given to U.S. citizens.

 

Applications and additional information are available on the Web at www.nlm.nih.gov/about/training/associate/.  Application deadline is February 6, 2009.  

 

Feel free to contact me for further information.  I can be reached at 301-435-4083 or dunnk@mail.nih.gov. 

 

Kathel Dunn

 

Associate Fellowship Coordinator

National Library of Medicine

Bldg 38, Rm 2N-19

8600 Rockville Pike

Bethesda, MD  20894

301-435-4083

dunnk@mail.nih.gov

 

Return on Investment (ROI) and Libraries

Librarians are increasingly choosing or being asked to address, identify or quantify the ROI of the library to its parent organization.  The National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) has provided a page of links to help librarians evaluate and promote the library and its services at http://nnlm.gov/mcr/evaluation/tools.html:

Calculators

Valuing Library Services Calculator

Determining the value of resources and services provided by a library can be complicated and time consuming. Use this calculator to find out what a user would pay to get the same resources or services elsewhere in the event the library is no longer an option.

CBA/ROI Calculator

How much benefit does your institution, your user, receive for every dollar spent by the library? What’s the annual return your institution realizes on what you spend on your collection? Use this calculator to deteremine the Cost/Benefit ratio and Return on Investment of your services and collections.

I just noticed that the Glendale Public Library uses a similar methodology on its website at http://www.glendaleaz.com/Library/ServicesCalculator_2.cfm.

It is an interesting way to get library users and non-users thinking about the value of a library to its community!

The role of the medical librarian in the basic biological sciences: a case study in virology and evolution

From the Journal of the Medical Library Association, v. 96(4), 2008.

This current installment of the case study column concerns the role of the medical librarian in basic biological research. In the modern life sciences, the boundaries between the health professions and general biology are becoming increasingly blurred, as both disciplines rely to a greater extent on interdisciplinary, integrative, and comparative approaches for the resolution of major questions (Figure 1). Correspondingly, the university medical or health center library is rapidly becoming a primary resource for both basic and applied scientists from across virtually all fields of modern biology (e.g., from molecular and cellular biology to physiology to ecology and evolution). In response, the importance of the medical librarian as an information specialist continues to grow at these institutions. This case study documents this expanding role of the medical librarian by focusing on a basic research question that originated from a recent publication on viral evolution.  See entire article HERE.

Who Stands To Lose In Google vs. Libraries-from LISNews

“Librarians of the world, unite! You have everything to lose: your books.” So warns Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam. In his view its the libraries that get the short end of the stick in the book deal with Google. Beam points to a number of efforts to resist Google’s effort to digitize all the world’s book, and points to programs such as the Open Content Alliance and Harvard’s decision not to go along with Google’s recent legal resolution with publishers. Does Beam make a good point or is he, as one commenter suggests, the “Globe’s resident Luddite”? Read more at:
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2008/12/02/google_vs_the_libraries/?rss…

Tour Opportunity: Merle A. Hinrichs Library at Thunderbird School of Global Management

Thursday, January 8, 10 am – 11:30 am.  The Merle A. Hinrichs International Business Information Centre (IBIC) at Thunderbird School of Global Management provides resources for students on the Glendale campus as well as those in programs all over the world. Thunderbird is a top-rated business school that attracts students from 50 different countries and the library reflects its unique student population as well as its curriculum of business, international studies and language. The tour will show not only the building, done in a semi-circular design, and some of the electronic services and resources.
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