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Phoenix Friends of SIRLS Gathering, Tuesday, September 9, 6:00 pm +

Please share your needs and interests for this group below:

¨     Career development

¨     Conference Reports

¨     Finding a job

¨     Library research

¨     Library Tours (specify)

¨     Library trends and issues and directions

¨     Networking

¨     Personal accounts of any of the above

¨     Resumes & cover letters

¨     Specific Skills, e.g., reference Interviews, digital collections, database searching     (specify below)

¨     Types of libraries & librarians

¨     Other, please specify below!

 

Last year:

·         Peter Boticelli (digital collections and the “DIG-IN” program)

·         Jana Bradley (new directions in the library profession)

·         Tom Wilding (academic librarianship as a career;

·         SIRLS academic advising)

·         A panel discussion with 5 recent SIRLS graduates talking about their first year on the job.

·         A discussion by 2 SIRLS students on their experiences at the ALA Conference.

·         A presentation by 2 Mesa Community College librarians on career path opportunities in community college libraries.

·         A resume and interviewing skills workshop by Sandy Kramer.

·         Presentations by 2 academic librarians at ASU about their jobs and their research interests (one in life sciences and one in Asian Studies)

Scholars’ View of Libraries as Portals Shows Marked Decline

From the Chronicle of Higher Education

By JENNIFER HOWARD

Know your library user—and worry about who’s not using the library. That’s the main advice to librarians in a new white paper that notes “a growing ambivalence about the campus library” among faculty members as more and more knowledge goes digital.

The report was released last week by Ithaka, a nonprofit organization that promotes the use of technology in higher education. The paper probes the relationship between libraries and the faculty at institutions of all sizes, and how the digital shift is altering that relationship.

The authors, Roger Schonfeld and Ross Housewright, pulled together the highlights from two surveys conducted in 2006: one of American faculty members and another of librarians in charge of collection development. Mr. Schonfeld is Ithaka’s manager of research; Mr. Housewright is a research analyst. Ithaka conducted similar faculty surveys in 2000 and 2003, so the new report is able to examine trends over a six-year period…. MORE