This anonymous interview is with an academic librarian who has been a member of a hiring or search committee. This person hires the following types of LIS professionals: Subject specialists, research librarians, catalogers, digital librarians, archivists. This librarian works at a library with 10-50 staff members in a rural area in the Northeastern US. Approximately … Continue reading
If you do the math, academic librarianship is a growing field. Therese Triumph, Reference Librarian at Rutgers University, and Penny Beile, Associate Director of Information Services at University of Central Florida, did just that, analyzing positions advertised in 2011 on the ALA JobList, ARL Job Announcements, and in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Triumph and … Continue reading