Libraries & Librarians

Libraries & Librarians 

Links, Tips, and other useful things for navigating a career in librarianship
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658point8 Practical Marketing for Public Libraries Just like the title says.  A great blog with great marketing tips to help librarians get the word out there about all the great things we do.

First Tuesdays  Webinars provided by Washington State Library on a variety of topics on first Tuesdays.  Archives are available for those of us who work on Tuesdays.

Free online courses for librarians 'nuf said!!

I Need a Library Job Resource Center and blog.  Excellent source for librarians in need of work, encouragement, or sympathy.

Library as Incubator Project a great site devoted to helping libraries and artist connect.  Focusing on how libraries can become incubators for the arts and artists.  Lots of articles about what's going on at other libraries.  Great project ideas and possibilities.

Library Science List  A global, social, community site for librarians to exchange ideas and share information.  Lots of interesting articles and links.

Musings about Librianship The blog of Aaron Tay, a Senior Librarian at the National University of Singapore, a LJ Mover & Shaker 2011, and an interesting librarian with interesting ideas.

Networking Tips  from Careerealism.

Public Libraries.com Topical articles and links.

SCLA Listserv how-tos The SCLA Listserv is a beautiful thing, but so easy to forget how it works. Two ways to get there: http://scla.net/scla/resources/listserv.html

Webinar on dealing with the press care of the Texas State Library online library training program.