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BITS AND PIECES OF
INFORMATION FOR
JOB SEEKERS
SLIS Announce-1, the Department of
Library & Information Sciences e-mail LIST-
SERV, posts many available professional job va-
cancies through SLIS-Announce. To join SLIS-
-ANNOUNCE-l, e-mail listserve@untedu,
leave the subject line bank, and type SUBscribe
slis-announce-1 and your name in the body of
the message.
You may not have heard of the Facebook
group or daily email (you need to sign up for
it-directions should be on the FB page or just
send an email to the address below), you might
be of interest in knowing that it includes states
and international positions. Users are invited to
participate: Have an opening in your library/
information organization that you'd like to fill?
Use Social Media to find the best candidate!
Post your position at "I need a Library Job'," a
rapidly growing (1400+) Facebook Community
of Librarians and Information Professionals. To
post, email position or questions go to ineedali-
braryjob@gmail.com/
For job openings in federal libraries, try
http://groups.google.com/groups/careers-in-
federal-libraries/
Pick a place where you would like to work
and volunteer. A graduate who volunteered at
UNT libraries was later offered a part-time po-
sition that turned into a full time job.
SLIS graduate Wendy Beecham presented
a program at the 2011 TLA annual conference
titled "Untraditional Careers for Information
Professionals and How to Find Them:' In flyer
material about her presentation she stated: "We
all know that the current job markets are the
hardest in recent history. Yet innovation and
the continual expansion of new technologies
constantly create new career opportunities for
information professionals:' A copy of her pre-
sentation can be obtained from TLA at http://
www.txla.org/annual-conference/ Scan down
the page until you get to TL48311d, which is
event #483. Recordings are in numerical order.
An August 2010 graduate e-mailed that
she has just been hired as a part-time children's
library. She states that "it could eventually lead
to a full-time position in another library since
there are 25 libraries in the county public library
system. It took me about 7 months to find a po-
sition and I realize that's not really bad in this
current economic system:' Part-time positions
are not the ideal, but they offer an opportunity
to prove your worth and often lead to full-time
employment.MI 111
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eli i~mJOBS OBTAINED BY RECENT GRADUATES
We do not always hear from our recent
graduates who have obtained positions, but a
few we have learned that include:
Library & Information Sciences
(most with MS degrees)
+ reference and instruction librarian at Texas
Tech University Health Sciences Central
Library; school librarians at Marion (TX)
high school; Lakewood Elementary at
Trophy Club; Odom Elementary School,
Austin; Ysleta High School; Hudson ISD,
Lufkin, TX
+ support agent for defacto.x in Germany
+ web services librarian, University of
Houston-Victoria Library
+ assistant medical librarian, VCOM,
Blacksburg, VA
+ assistant director, Cabell County Public
Library/Western Region Library, W.VA,
and at Edinburg (TX) Public Library
+ technical services librarian at Hall County
System, Gainesville, GA, and at Carson
City (NV) Public Library
+ coordinator library technology, Texas
Woman's University, Denton, TX
+ library specialist, South Texas College,
McAllen, TX
+ library assistant, Tarrant County College,
Fort Worth, TX; Fulton County Public
Library, Powder Springs, GA; Frisco (TX)
Public Library; University of Texas-Pan
American, Edinburgh TX; and at Acacia
Library Phoenix, AZ
+ district manager of records & archives,
Dallas County Community College+ head of media services, Armstrong Atlantic
State University, Savannah, GA
+ adult services assistant, Las Vegas-Clark
County Library District, Las Vegas, NV
+ children's librarian, Wells Branch
Community Library, Austin, TX
+ librarian, Lincoln College of Technology,
Marietta, GA; library director, Ethel L.
Wipple Memorial Library, Los Fresnos,
TX; and director, Lovett Memorial
Library, Pampa, TX
+ library media specialist, Burleson ISD, TX
+ youth service librarian, Houston Public
Library; Carson City Public Library, NV;
Springfield (MO) Public Library
+ public services librarian, West Jordan
Library, West Jordan, UT and at Tulsa
(OK) Public
+ digital library technician, Montana State
Library
Learning Technologies
(most with BA and Master's
degrees)
+ Computer support specialist, maintenance
manager, office manager, training
specialist, network manager, IT specialist,
operations analyst, administrative
assistant, rehabilitation services tech,
Web coordinator, applications engineer,
teacher, electronics teacher, CTE teacher,
human resources, system administrator,
compliance officer, program director,
paralegal, communications specialist,
data analysis.LIBRARY JOURNAL PLACEMENT & SALARIES SURVEY
Each fall, Library Journal provides the library and information science profession with placement
and salaries survey results for the previous year. Here are some highlights from the 2010 survey pub-
lished in the October 14, 2010 issue of the journal:+ Women continued to dominate, representing
80% of the graduating class; with that comes an
inherent salary gap and glass ceiling.
+ Men command higher average starting salaries
than women, $44,945 to $41,514. (More men
entered jobs in private industry and a larger
percentage of women entered the field at lower-
paying jobs, such as circulation, children's ser-
vices, and youth or teen services).
+ Both men and women found starting salaries
slightly better in 2009, women 1.5% and men
1.7%.
+ Women achieved better starting salaries than
their male counterparts in both special librar-
ies ($43,858 over $41,006) and in school media
centers ($41,894 compared to $44,136).+ Both men and women experienced drops in
academic libraries; men lost approximately 5%
in earnings while women dipped just under 3%.
+ Minority graduates felt the best growth and
highest level of salaries in school library media
centers with an average start of $52,745, 17%
higher.
+ Minority placement in academic libraries grew
from 25% of all minority jobs reported in 2008
to 31% in 2009; salaries did not keep pace and
followed the overall pattern of decline.
+ Additional information, including some region-
al data, is contained in the survey.spring 2011 call number 5 m
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