Whether your library is offering a job or you are actively looking for a new one, you might want to take a look at JobLIST. It’s the outcome of a venture between American Libraries, ALA’s Office for Human Resource Development and Recruitment (HRDR), and College & Research Library News. For employers this is a unique [...]

This is the final installment in our report on the ACRL Membership Survey. We hope you have found it informative, and we appreciate your comments on these issues. The latter section of the report is devoted to something called the “opportunity analysis.” Here is how it is described: The intent of the gap analysis is [...]

There have been several recent developments about using the Internet to revive tradtional modes of scholarly publishing and make it both more accessible and more open to new forms of collaboration. The Chronicle describes a new report from the Council of Learned Societies that argues the social sciences and humanities need a better “cyberinfrastructure.” The [...]

Columbia University is offering a new Master’s Degree in Information and Archives Management through its School of Continuing Education – and we were curious what that means. Martha Zebrowski, Academic Director of the program, kindly answered my questions about it. bf: Do you see this program as appealing to librarians or allied professionals working in [...]

There was an interesting thread on COLLIB-L on Tuesday the 18th about the institution’s home page and the place of the link to the library on that page – or its lack of presence . It began with one librarian reporting her institution was about to makes some changes to its web site and its [...]