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Career Placement Services

College of Information
Internet Sources For Employment
Additional Placement Sources
Florida State University

The Career Center sponsors a variety of workshops and career expositions throughout the semester. A schedule of events is available from the Career Center office. A number of guides are also available on topics such as job searching on the Internet, writing business letters and resumes, and interview preparation. There are also lists of major employers and Placement Partners available, which indicate types of positions available and degree majors sought.

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College of Information

The College of Information provides assistance to graduates seeking professional positions. Whereas the College cannot guarantee employment, the placement rate is high, especially for persons who are flexible in their choice of position and geographic location.

Alumni who wish to change positions are encouraged to write their former advisors, who may be able to provide information on suitable vacancies. Alumni informing the College of their interests in position changes can be provided with useful referrals. There has been considerable concern in students' minds about the availability of positions upon graduation in library and related professions. While there is not an average number of positions throughout the profession, and the College cannot guarantee employment, the placement rate is high for persons who are flexible as to type of available position of work, and mobile as to location. Every effort will be made by the College to help graduates find positions, and, of course, graduates are expected to help themselves in seeking suitable employment through letters and personal interviews.

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Internet Sources For Employment

(The School makes every attempt to keep these links up to date but please note the dynamic nature of the web means sites change continually)

http://www.aar- eeo.com/
Affirmative Action Register
The National EEO Recruitment Publication directed to females, minorities, veterans, and disabled persons as well as to all employment candidates.
http://career.missouri.edu/
University of Missouri Career Center
http://floridalibraryjobs.org/
The Florida Library Jobline, a service of the State Library of Florida. You may also subscribe to the listserv -- see below.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/slanews/jobs/jobs.html
Listings of current News Library job and internship openings. There are listings throughout the U.S. It appears to be updated weekly.
http://www.sjmercury.com/talentscout/
Silicon Valley’s largest online classifieds for information technology positions and advice for job seekers. Updated daily. Has a number of special features for job seekers, including technology-oriented job fairs which enable users to attend via the Web or in person.
http://www.si.umich.edu/careers/
The University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies maintains a JobFinder Placement Bulletin of employment opportunities throughout the United States.
http://chronicle.com/
Choose the "Jobs In and Out of Academe" option, search all records using "library" from the Chronicle of Higher Education classified ads. Updated daily and a free jobs-alert email service is available. If job hunters are looking to work in the nonprofit arena, they should include http://philanthropycareers.com among their web resources.
http://www.georgialibraries.org/lib/jobs.html
This is a Georgia-specific site call the GOLD Job Bank. It has academic, public, school and special library job availability listings for the entire state.
http://fiat.gslis.utexas.edu/
The University of Texas library school home page that has their job file. Select "Placement Services List." Includes library-related jobs as well. They put a new set of listings up every week.
http://sla.jobcontrolcenter.com/
The Special Library Association Career Services Online include job searches, SLA Virtual Advisors, and the SLA Career Connection. Some services are only available to SLA members.
http://www.arl.org/resources/careers/index.shtm
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL Career Resources) offers its member institutions the opportunity to post employment announcements in order by category of position, entry-level positions, and by regions within the United States and Canada. (From: "Jobs on the Net," American Libraries, September 1996, pg. 66)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/hr/employment/
Library of Congress list of current employment opportunities.
http://www.mlin.lib.ma.us
The Massachusetts Library and Information Network supports the monthly listings of vacancies made available by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In addition to permanent full-time vacancies at public, special, and academic libraries, part-time and summer positions are also posted. MLIN also provides access to library catalogs throughout the state. (From: "Jobs on the Net," American Libraries, September 1996, pg. 68)
http://www.rileyguide.com/
The Riley Guide, by Margaret Riley, is perhaps the most comprehensive Web resource on job-hunting. Updated links to multitude of job banks are categorized by discipline or geography. In addition, Riley provides instruction on effectively applying the wonders of the Internet to your search for employment. Links to library-related resources are found under "Social Sciences." (From: "Jobs on the Net," American Libraries, September 1996, pg. 68)

Some additional resources for someone with an M.L.S. who needs employment (From: "Jobs on the Net," American Libraries, September 1996, pg. 69 and other sources):

Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org
Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, Massachusetts: http://www.bridgew.edu/library/employmt.cfm
University of Texas: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/jobweb/Search.php

Listservs which exclusively list vacancies are (From: "Jobs on the Net," American Libraries, September 1996, pg. 69):

Acrlny-l: Acrlyn-l is sponsored by the Greater New York Metropolitan Chapter of Association of College and Research Libraries. To subscribe, send the e-mail message "subscribe acrlny-l firstname lastname" to this address: listproc@lists.nyu.edu
Libjobs: Library and Information Science Jobs mailing list is offered by the National Library of Canada. To subscribe, send the e-mail message: "subscribe libjobs" to this address: listserv@ infoserv.nlc-bnc.ca
Slajob: Special Libraries Association Employment Opportunities list. To subscribe, send the e-mail message: "Subscribe slajob firstname lastname" to this address: listserve@iubvm.usc.indiana.edu
Lissa_l: Rutgers MLS Listserv. To subscribe, send the e-mail message: "subscribe lissa_l" to this address: majordomo@scils.rutgers.edu
Florida Libraries. To subscribe, send the e-mail message: "subscribe fl-lib your e-mail address" to this address: majordomo@florida3.dos.state.fl. us
LIBJOB-L, a free list on the Internet devoted to the announcement of entry-level librarian positions within New York State. To subscribe, send the following e-mail message with no subject line and no other text: subLIBJOB firstname lastname to: listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu

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Additional Career Placement Sources

American Library Association
ALA offers a free Placement Center at each Annual Conference and Midwinter Meeting. Job openings are listed from all types of libraries. Job-seekers may register even if they are not able to be present at the Placement Center and may purchase the listing of job openings. If job-seekers attend the conference, interviews with employers can be arranged. Student members may list their membership in ALA, ALA divisions, and ALA round tables on their resumes.

Career Leads job listings are listed on the ALA Website. Jobs are listed alphabetically and are grouped according to type of library (i.e. academic library, public library, music library, etc.) At the end of the listing will be Late Job notices which arrived too late to be placed in the first group of ads. ALA’s College & Research Libraries News also has its job listings posted on the ALA Web Page. Vacancies are taken from the monthly publication C&RL News and postings are listed alphabetically by job title.

American Society for Information Science
ASIS also offers a Placement Center at it annual conference. Job openings are listed for various types of positions in the Information field. Interviews with employers can be arranged if job-seekers are in attendance at the conference. If job-seekers cannot be present, a listing of job openings may be purchased. Jobs are occasionally posted to the ASIS listserv, but this list is general purpose and not strictly for employment opportunities. To subscribe send e-mail message to: listserv@asis.org.

Subscribe to Special Libraries Association of Upstate New York (SLA) Jobs Bulletin, SLA Upstate New York Chapter by contacting:

Rebecca Rector
Norton Company Library
P.O. Box 808
Troy, NY 12181

Job openings in Atlanta, GA. Contact the Jobline: (404) 730-5627

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Florida State University

The Career Placement Service of the University offers resources for students and recent graduates seeking employment. This service is free to all FSU students, and information on its activity is available from its office on Campus. The Career Center, located in University Center, helps students in all phases of their career development. The Center's Curricular-Career Information Service helps students determine career interests and select appropriate academic programs to reach their career choices through various pre-professional internships and work experiences. Students nearing the end of their academic programs find help in the Career Placement Services Unit that administers the on-campus recruitment program and helps students develop effective job search techniques. At the University Center office, students have access to both computerized and printed career materials.

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