Information Resources for Information Professionals

Jobs for Information Professionals -- Guides

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Americas job bank.

Bay Area Library & Information System (BALIS). Jobstar California job search guide.

Bolles, Dick. Job hunters Bible.

Site of the author of What Color is Your Parachute? Career Magazine.

The magazine includes 6,000 to 12,000 current job openings with a simple search engine, articles, company profiles, discussion group, classifieds and an executive recruiter directory. The magazine is free to readers and accepts articles from qualified authors and professionals.

Cornell University. Catherwood Library. Internet resources for job searching.

Dikel, Margaret F. The Riley guide: Employment opportunities and job resources on the Internet.

Escape artist home page.

"Overseas living for international job seekers, expatriates and tax exiles, Your Guide to International living."

Human resources Internet guide.

Job hunters on-line super-list.

Michigan Electronic Library. Library employment.

O*NET Online.

Coontains job title, experience and occupation requirements, worker requirements, worker and occupation characteristics.

Shontz, Priscilla K. LIScareer.com. A companion to: Jump start your career in library and information science.

U.S. Labor Department. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2000-2001 ). Occupational outlook handbook

See careers like:

Computer and office machine repairers, computer and peripheral equipment operators, computer programmers, computer scientists, computer engineers, computer systems analysts, information brokers, information clerks, information officers, information scientists, librarians, library assistants and bookmobile drivers, and Library technicians, and public relations specialists.

US Department of Commerce. Go for IT!

Guide to IT sources of education, employment, and training.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. School of Information and Library Science. Employment resources/a>.

University of Waterloo, Canada. Careers Services. (1997). Career development manual (2nd ed.).

Webmaster profession resource center.

Ziegler, James R. Contract employee's handbook.

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Computer Science

Computer Museum. (1998). Careers in computing.

Computerworld. Careers.

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Government Libraries

Federal Library and Information Center (FLICC). Handbook of federal librarianship.

Federal Library and Information Center (FLICC). Annotated Guides to Federal Librarian Classification Standards: Librarian, GS-1410 , Library Technician, GS-1411 , Technical Information Specialist, GS-1412 [All in WordPerfect 5.1 format].

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Indexers

Cunningham, Ann Marie and Wicks, Wendy K. (1992). Guide to careers in abstracting and indexing. Philadelphia: National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services (NFAIS). See Announcement.

Wicks, Wendy K. (1997). Careers in electronic information: An insider's guide to the information job market. Philadelphia: National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services (NFAIS). See Announcement.

Includes: Where the Jobs Are, The Employers: Company profiles for the commercial, government, and not-for-profit sectors, A Day in the Life Profiles, Next Generation Databases: A Changing Workforce, The Internet Job Search, and Closing the Deal, Getting the Job.

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Information Industry

Mort, Mary Ellen. (1998, November). Information industry survival guide. Information Today.

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Information Systems

@BRINT (Business Researcher's Interests). Information professional's career page.

Chief Information Officer (CIO) magazine. IT professional research center.

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Libraries

Aguiñaga, José. Searching for a librarian job.

American Library Association. Employment. See also: Moore, Maxine. Guide to employment sources in the library and information professions. Chicago: ALA.

Argus Clearinghouse.

Follow subject tree to Business and Employment and then Employment.

Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative in association with Syracuse University School of Information Studies MLS students. Become a Librarian!

Gordon, Rachel Singer. (1996, August to present). Librarians job search source.

Library Support Staff ResourceCenter. Employment resources.

Moore, Maxine. Guide to employment sources in the library and information professions. Chicago: ALA.

Includes: General sources of library and information jobs, library joblines, specialized library associations and groups, state library agencies, state and regional library associations, library and information studies programs, and federal employment information sources.

Murray, Richard.The whimsy of cataloging.

PICK. (Library) Job hunting and professional development

Requirements for Certification: of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Annual

Simmons College. Career Resource Library: Library and information science bibliography.

Thomas, Susan. (1996, April 17). Library Job Hunting: Advice. originally posted to LIBREF-L and mentioned by Ann Robinson below

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Employment websites and listservs

Includes their own JobSearch database.

University of Toronto. Faculty of Information Studies. JobSite.

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Records Managers

Institute of Certified Records Managers.

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School Media

School Library Journal. Getting certified in 50 states: The latest requirements for school librarians.

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Telecommuting

Roseberry, Catherine. Telecommuting. About.com.

You can work from anywhere.

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