Interact with Your Learning Community on Facebook

by Irene KorberAre you looking for new ways to connect with other SLIS students, as well as SLIS faculty and alumni?  It can be challenging to stay in touch in an online learning community, and social networking sites offer new opportunities to interact and keep up with important announcements.  With this in mind, SLIS launched a Facebook page last spring,…

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Networking Effectively Using LinkedIn

by Theresa PutkeyAs a self-employed Information Architect working on my MLIS, it’s important for me to learn and make connections by meeting people in my (or related) industries. After years of struggling with making the right connections - including a lot of time spent at networking events in vain - I finally hit upon an incredibly useful technique.LinkedIn is a…

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Take Control of Your Future!

by Brian McManus  Professional development does not start when you get your first librarianship after being newly minted from library school.  It begins when you start your MLIS and begin to understand all the professional opportunities that are available.  Not only librarians and other information professionals conduct research, write articles, and are committee members that contribute to the greater library world. …

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Just in Case or Just in Time?

by John D. BerryI’ve been musing over collection development this year.  Our collection development has been frozen in time since the Third World Strike in 1968/69.  It’s never gone up, but it hasn’t gone away. In the interim the Native Librarians, responsible for the Native American Studies Collection at U.C. Berkeley, have valiantly built our collection.  This is just our collection…

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A Summer Project: Helping Plan an Academic Library and Archive

by Rachel Fox When I began this program at San Jose State University, I was already employed as the Circulation Manager at a small academic library.  There have been many times during my academic career at San Jose State University where my classes and my professional work have connected, but this past year, a particular project stood out when I…

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