Job Skills Required for New Librarians

The After-Dark Lecture Series had our first panel discussion of they year regarding a very important topic for students in our program. The panel topic for the evening was on job skills required for new librarians in the workforce. The program was a huge success. Our speakers included Jacqueline Rose (Polk County Senior Coordinator of Library Media Services), Jessica Riggins (Immediate Past President SIS), Susan Oliver (Chief Librarian Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library), and Susan Ariew (USF Tampa Campus Librarian). The panel gave a brief overview of their background and how they ended up in their current position. They also spoke about different characteristics libraries look for in candidates including experience, leadership, and energy. The four librarians took questions from the assembled students on topics like giving references and salary negotiations. All of the panelists agreed on the tough environment for finding an available job in the current economy. They did mention the value of volunteering or work study in getting an advantage over other candidates.

Approximately 35 students attended the program. This was the highest number of students who have attended our After-Dark Lecture Series. Students who are members of the student organizations can hear a recorded version of the discussion on Blackboard in the Student Organizations section in Elluminate.

Our next after dark lecture speaker is Betsy King from CAE USA Inc.  She will give a brief overview of her career and job duties in a training center for cargo aircraft. This is a great opportunity for librarians wanting to learn more about a career in special libraries. RSVP required for this event. More information is available via our Facebook page and our website. 

 

What did you get out of the panel discussion?

 

Filed under: Jobs, Professional Organizations, USF Libraries

American Archivist now on JSTOR

American Archivist is now available through JSTOR!  For all of our aspiring archivists, this is an amazing resource, now available to us through the help of the SAA.

Read on for more information:

Back issues of American Archivist are now available on JSTOR, the not-for-profit online digital archive. Researchers may access articles as full-text PDF files for searching, browsing, downloading, and printing from the journal’s first year of publication (1938) up to the most recent three years. Users at institutions that participate in JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences VI Collection can access back issues directly by visiting American Archivist’s journal page. SAA is pleased to collaborate with JSTOR to preserve and make available this important body of scholarship.
Start reading today by going to the USF Libraries website, clicking on the ‘USF Catalog’ and searching ‘American Archivist’ under journal title.  Make sure you’ve signed in first!

Ava Iuliano

Archivist SLIS Orgs

Filed under: USF Libraries

Would you recognize a miracle?

Would you recognize a miracle if you saw one?

On Monday, April 12, 2010, you can celebrate National Library Week, consider this question and help generate donations to benefit travel for library grad students to conferences and meetings.

Underneath the Lintel is a one‐man show about a fictional librarian from Hoofdorp (the Netherlands) who finds a book returned in the overnight slot 136 years overdue. The book was borrowed November 12, 1873 and not returned. What begins as a zealous attempt to recover a huge fine evolves into a quest to prove the identity of the egregious violator of library policy. Our host employs tools of librarianship to support his “Impressive Presentation of Lovely Evidences.”

A lintel forms the top of a door frame

ABOUT THE PLAY: This story is a funny, warm, sometimes moving, twisty journey into a mystery shared by audience and performer. Underneath the Lintel made its Off Broadway premiere in a 6 month run at SoHo Rep in New York City in 2002. Since then, it’s been successfully published and has received many professional productions. The first performance of any kind was by the author at the Yale Cabaret in New Haven, CT.

ABOUT THE PERFORMER: Arlen Bensen is a graduate student and graduate assistant in the USF School of Library and Information Science. He previously spent more than 30 years pursuing a career as a performing arts professional. Primarily a director (and a current member of SSDC, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers), Arlen also acted with many accomplished professionals including Denzel Washington (in Othello in 1977) and T. Ryder Smith who played the Librarian in the 2002 Off Broadway premiere of Underneath the Lintel. Arlen was fortunate to direct and teach many extremely talented people including stars like Melba Moore (Anything Goes, SummerFest, Montclair, NJ, 1994) and Michael Learned (Lettice and Lovage, also at SummerFest in 1993). Other notable directing efforts by Arlen include the Florida premiere of Three Tall Women by Edward Albee (Sarasota, 1996), the Southwest premiere of Oleanna by David Mamet (New Mexico Rep, 1994) and the world premiere of The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge by Mark Brown at Orlando Shakespeare Theater in 2004.

Times and Places: 2 performances are planned for April 12:
Noon, Grace Allen Room, USF Tampa Library
7:00 PM, Manatee Room (3705) Marshall Center
Again, admission is free, but donations will be accepted to benefit travel for library grad students. Help spread the word!

Note: the script contains one instance of language which may be objectionable to some people. [AB]

Filed under: Conferences, Education, Uncategorized, USF Libraries

First Friday Journal Club

Lana Brand will be presenting on Open Access (OA) and the role of librarians in its implementation and development at the next First Friday Journal Club.  Please be sure to stop by the Shimberg Library, Room 2215 from 1-2 pm on Friday, March 5th and join us for a very informative presentation!

Here are the readings to be discussed:

Beaudouin-Lafon, M. (2010). Viewpoint: Open access to scientific publications.
Communications of the ACM, 53(2), 32-34. doi:10.1145/1646353.1646367

Briggs, L. (2009). Open Access Concept Map. Retrieved from http://www.ualberta.ca /~lbriggs1/briggs/openaccess.html

Suber, P.(2008). Open Access Overview. Retrieved from http://www.earlham.edu/~
peters/hometoc.htm

Filed under: Uncategorized, USF Libraries

First Friday Journal Club!

For those of you interested in being part of the Journal club, meetings are every first Friday of the month from 1-2 pm at the Shimberg Library, room 2215.  Last week’s Brown Bag speaker Barbara Wood generated a lot of interest last week in the Journal Club.  Topics are interdisciplinary.  The next meeting will be March 5th.

Hope to see you there!

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Where do local history, librarianship, good eating and publication meet?

You can find out all in one place by joining your colleagues at the next After Dark Lecture event.

librarian of many hats

You’re likely to enjoy meeting Andy Huse. Andy’s an Assistant Librarian in Special Collections at USF Tampa Library. He’s also an alumnus of USF SLIS (see biographical information below), a historian, an author and a lover of good food.

On November 4^th (Wednesday) at 6 PM, he’ll be joining us in CIS 2020 to talk about his journey in the library world.

Here are some excerpts from his web page in the USF Libraries catalog:

“Andrew Huse received M.A. degrees in History (2000) and Library and Information Science (2005) from the University of South Florida…  In 2003, he wrote a successful nomination proposal to list USF’s Chinsegut Hill manor house on the National Register of Historic Places. He co-authored “The Seabreeze by the Bay Cookbook” (2000)… He conducted the primary research for “The University of South Florida: The First Fifty Years.” In conjunction with the Tampa Bay History Center, Huse is Assistant Editor of the revived Tampa Bay History journal… Huse…conducts historic tours of Chinsegut Hill near Brooksville.”

NOTE (for starving grad students): you may also want to attend Andy’s 6:30 PM talk on November 10 in the Siboney Room at Ybor City’s Columbia Restaurant (free tapas!) where he’ll be signing copies of  his new book – The Columbia Restaurant: Celebrating a Century of History, Culture, and Cuisine (University Press of Florida, pubdate: 11/12/2009). This latter talk is presented in conjunction with the Tampa Bay History Center’s “Florida Conversations” series.

http://www.tampabayhistorycenter.org/flaconversations.html

AB

Filed under: Professional Organizations, USF Libraries, publication, research

USF Tampa Library Secrets

Hi, my name is Nancy Petty. I am a graduate student in the USF Library Science program and I also work at the USF Tampa Library in Access Services.  Today, I am going to reveal a secret retreat for graduate students located on the 6th floor of the USF Tampa Library.

The other day I met with Dave Davisson to be initiated into the realm of blogging and using WordPress. For my training, I suggested that we go up to the 6th floor of the library to use the computer workstations in the Faculty and Graduate Student Research Suite. “What,” and more importantly, “Where,” is that, Dave exclaimed!

“Well,” I replied, “it’s a quiet study area designated especially for use by grad students located in the lobby of the Faculty Research Suite on the 6th floor of the USF Tampa library.” “Just go to your left when you get off the elevator.” (BTW – walking up to the 6th floor adds an additional bonus of fitness for the otherwise sedentary library science graduate student lifestyle.)

“Just look at all this space we can use.”

“A perfect place to study and work on projects.”

“When is this area available?”

• Monday thru Friday 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
• Closed Weekends

One note of caution: be sure to bring a sweater or jacket!

And please, stop by the circulation desk when you come in – I love meeting you all!

Nancy

Filed under: USF Libraries

Floridiana LGBT and Gender Studies at USF Libraries Special and Digital Collections, Tampa

The USF libraries are collecting material related to LGBT issues here in the Tampa bay area. If you have flyers, newspaper articles, zines, posters, video or audio recordings, or anything else that documents LGBT history in central west Florida, consider donating it to USF libraries special collections. Below is more information from the library.

The Special and Digital Collections Department of USF Libraries, Tampa seeks to preserve records relating to the history of gender and sexuality issues in Florida, especially as related to the history of women, gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered persons. The records of these communities, often neglected by traditional historical
associations, threatens to disappear if an effort is not made towards their preservation.

Two USF professors, Dr. Sara Crawley of Sociology and Dr. David Johnson of History, along with Dr. Mark Greenberg, director of Special and Digital Collections began this initiative April 18, 2006 in order to provide students with Floridiana LGBT and women’s historical primary materials. Barbara Cardinale, a graduate assistant, is constructing a web presence for this collection so students and researchers may ascertain these materials with ease. The web presence will be completed and published in April of 2009. In the mean time, to learn more about the Floridiana LGBT and Gender Studies History Collection please follow this link.

Filed under: USF Libraries, GLBT, LGBT, special collections