Articles, job-hunting advice, professional development opportunities, and other news and ideas on how to further your library career. Compiled by the Library Job People, Sarah Johnson and Rachel Singer Gordon.
August 17th, 2009 rachel
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce the following non-credit continuing education course:
Title: Budget and Finance for the Library
Dates: September 1 – October 6, 2009
Times: Online synchronous sessions Tuesdays, 2:00 - 4:00 pm Central time
Instructor: Robert H. Burger, Ph.D., CPA, Professor Emeritus, UIUC Library
Cost: $300
Intended audience: CPLA program candidates; librarians and information professionals needing training in library budget and finance topics. A couple of scholarships are available to librarians from developing countries.
Purpose of the course: To familiarize the student with the basic principles of library financial administration, including budgeting and planning within the mission and goals of the organization. Upon completion of the course the candidate is expected to be able to develop program budgets, conduct operational analysis for budget forecasting, develop capital budgets, conduct cost/benefit analyses, and work with accounting personnel. Topics include line item, program, and capital budgets, cost benefit analysis, performance measures and operations indicators, capital projects, and fiduciary responsibilities of the library director, trustees, and others having responsibilities for financial administration in the library. The use of Microsoft Excel is assumed and will be used at a level appropriate for someone who has basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
Note: If you need to miss a live session, audio and text archives are available.
For additional information and to register:
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/CPLA/bf.html
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May 12th, 2009 rachel
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is pleased to announce the following continuing education course for librarians and information professionals.
COURSE TITLE: Current Issues in Libraries
Dates: May 21 – June 25, 2009 (Thursdays)
Times: Online synchronous sessions from 3:00-5:00pm. Central time.
Note: Students may participate in this course either synchronously by attending live sessions or asynchronously by reviewing text chat and audio logs.
Cost: $300
Instructor: Rose M. Chenoweth, MLS, Alliance Library System
Intended audience: Librarians and information professionals interested in current issues in libraries; CPLA program candidates needing an elective course for certification. Note: While the course has a public library focus, the issues covered are relevant to other types of libraries. The course syllabus is available for review upon request.
Course description: Utilizing information about international, federal, state, and local issues, trends, and legislation and community demographics, readings on current library management issues, case studies, and assignments, students will apply what they have learned to their own library. By the end of the course, students will be able to identify at least five current issues or trends that affect library management and apply new skills to develop related services. They will analyze their current long range plan and services in the light of this new knowledge and apply their new skills to develop a new service response for the library in its changing community, goal, objectives, and one new service development plan. The service plan will address relevant activity steps, gap analysis, and resource allocation to show the full development and implementation of the service.
If you have questions, contact Marianne Steadley, 217.244.2751 or steadley@uiuc.edu. To register visit http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/CPLA/Current_Issues.html
Tags: ce, current issues, UIUC
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December 5th, 2008 rachel
Apologies for duplicate postings.
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce the following online continuing education/non-credit course:
Course title: Serving Diverse Populations in the Library ALA-APA approved for Certified Public Library Administrator (CPLA)candidates)
Dates: January 7 – February 11, 2009
Times: Online synchronous sessions Wednesdays from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. US Central
Cost: $300
Instructor: Lori S. Mestre, Ed.D. GSLIS Adjunct Associate Professor
Intended audience: Librarians and information professionals needing training in providing service to diverse populations: CPLA program candidates needing an elective course for certification.
Purpose of the course: To create an awareness of and sensitivity to diverse information needs of multiethnic/multicultural/multilingual populations served by libraries. It focuses on developing skills for planning, implementing and evaluating programs for addressing the information needs of diverse communities through information needs assessment and analysis; program planning, public service, outreach and collection development. It explores multicultural resources and services using a framework that focuses on: People (who work in libraries and their understanding of the concepts of diversity and multicultural librarianship); Collections (building collections to serve an increasingly diverse multicultural, multiethnic and multilingual society); and Services (to diverse groups and populations in libraries and organizational culture from a managerial perspective).
For additional information and to register, visit http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/CPLA/diverse.html or contact Marianne Steadley, Steadley@uiuc.edu , 217-244-2751.
For information on other continuing education courses offered by GSLIS, visit http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/
Tags: diverse populations, UIUC
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October 28th, 2008 rachel
Working with a Class in Second Life
Join Dr. Bryan Carter (Bryan Mnemonic) in this course created to help librarians, museum professionals, and educators learn how to work with a class in Second Life including hardware and software requirements, orientation, faculty and student mindset change, establishing course objectives, finding and creating content, creating meaningful projects, evaluating student work, action learning, grants, managing a sim-island, and collaborative opportunities.
Wednesdays, October 29, November 5, 12, 19 from 4:00 – 6:00 PM SL (US Pacific) time
For additional information and to register: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/VW/class.html
Marianne Steadley
Continuing Professional Development Program Director
501 E. Daniel St. Champaign IL 61820
217/244-2751
Fax: 217/244-3302 [jesse]
Tags: second life, UIUC
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August 27th, 2008 rachel
Apologies for duplicate postings.
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce the following non-credit continuing education course:
Title: Budget and Finance for the Library
Dates: September 2 – October 7, 2008
Times: Online synchronous sessions Tuesdays, 1:30 – 3:30 pm Central time
Instructor: Robert H. Burger, Ph.D., CPA, Professor Emeritus, UIUC Library
Cost: $300
Intended audience: CPLA program candidates; librarians and information professionals needing training in library budget and finance topics.
Purpose of the course: To familiarize the student with the basic principles of library financial administration, including budgeting and planning within the mission and goals of the organization. Upon completion of the course the candidate is expected to be able to develop program budgets, conduct operational analysis for budget forecasting, develop capital budgets, conduct cost/benefit analyses, and work with accounting personnel. Topics include line item, program, and capital budgets, cost benefit analysis, performance measures and operations indicators, capital projects, and fiduciary responsibilities of the library director, trustees, and others having responsibilities for financial administration in the library. The use of Microsoft Excel is assumed and will be used at a level appropriate for someone who has basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
For additional information and to register:
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/CPLA/bf.html
Marianne Steadley
Continuing Professional Development Program Director
501 E. Daniel St. Champaign IL 61820
217/244-2751
Fax: 217/244-3302
Tags: budget, finance, UIUC
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August 25th, 2008 rachel
Fellowships Now Available for Doctoral Study: Information in Society
The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science is recruiting a select group of doctoral students interested in pursuing the study of information in society, including policy, economic, and historical dimensions. Your interests may lie in any part of the emerging field of information studies, such as practices of information organization, library history, the political economy of information, or community information systems; your academic background may be in library and information science, history, law, communications or other fields—as long as you share our commitment to engaging deeply with the processes that structure information in society. Fellowship recipients should be seeking to prepare for careers as faculty members in schools of library and information science.
Apply by January 1, 2009 to begin study in Fall 2009
Contact: Professor and Associate Dean Linda C. Smith:
(217) 333-7742 |
Email: lcsmith@uiuc.edu
Visit the website at http://www.lis.illinois.edu/programs/phd/infosociety
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May 1st, 2008 rachel
PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD!
The 4th Annual Community As Intellectual Space Symposium Registration is Open! http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/CIS2008/
What:
The 4th Annual Community as Intellectual Space Symposium:
“Aesthetics as Resistance: The Act of Community Buildingâ€
Hosted by the Community Informatics Initiative, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the Puerto Rican Cultural Center.
This year promises to be an extraordinary event, exploring notions of the “art†of community building in cultural context: from murals to media, technology to teaching. Join us for an unprecedented celebration of cross-cultural community in the heart of the Paseo Boricua neighborhood of Chicago.
(Continuing professional development units for K-12 educators will be available.)
When: June 13-15, 2008
Where: Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Chicago
Who:
•Dr. Margaret Burroughs (invited), founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History •Internationally known muralist and artist Pablo Marcano
Other speakers include:
Dr. Carol Lee, Northwestern University,
Dr. Lisa Yun Lee, Director of Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois, Chicago;
Dr. Sarai Lastra, Turabo University, Puerto Rico;
Dr. Antonia Darder, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
Dr. Abdul Alkalimat, GSLIS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
Dr. Jacqueline Lazu, DePaul University;
Dr. Jose Lopez, Executive Director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center; Community and government representatives
Activities:
–A unique artist-led mural tour on the nationally known Paseo
–Community Informatics Initiative in Action workshops:
Curating Identity:Â Newberry Library exhibit created by high school students as curators;
“Do You ‘Squeak’?”:Â How to use creative technologies with early childhood learners;
Teens Going Green: How to inspire creative urban agriculture in the high school;
How to build a community library
•Premier of the third play in a trilogy by noted Puerto Rican author and playwright, Tato Laviera, performed by Pedro Albizu Campos High School students •June 12, a Pre-Symposium reception is being hosted by the Humboldt Park Branch of the Chicago Public Library featuring Chicago Public Library Commissioner Mary Dempsey (invited) and artists
•And, of course, we will be attending the 30th Anniversary People’s Parade
Want to hear more? Visit our registration website: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/CIS2008/
CONTACT:
Ann P. Bishop, Associate Professor
501 E. Daniel
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
217.244.3299
abishop@uiuc.edu
www.cii.uiuc.edu [jesse]
Tags: community, illinois, intellectual space, UIUC
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January 25th, 2008 sarah
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to offer the following online
continuing professional development course. The course is ALA-APA
approved for Certified Public Library Administrator (CPLA) candidates,
but is open to any interested librarian or information professional.
Organization and Personnel Management for Librarians
Course description: This course will familiarize the student with the
basic principles of library personnel management and organization,
including personnel administration within the context of the mission and
goals of the organization. Topics included are recruitment of staff,
making hiring decisions, supervision of staff, evaluation of staff’s
performance, identification of training needs, implementation of
training, firing or terminating staff, evaluating the effectiveness of
the organizational structure with regard to personnel management,
evaluating personnel policies, and identifying and securing resources
for staff.
Dates: February 5 – March 11, 2008
Times: Online with synchronous (live) sessions Tuesdays, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Central time
Cost: $300
Instructor: Robert H. Burger, Ph.D., CPA, Professor Emeritus, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
For additional information and to register, visit
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/CPLA/opm.html [iacrl]
Tags: ALA-APA, UIUC
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November 21st, 2007 sarah
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), in cooperation with the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) Office of Continuing Education, is pleased to announce a limited number of registration openings in several online and on-campus graduate credit courses via the Academic Outreach Community Credit program. Formal admission to the University is not necessary, but a bachelor’s degree is required.
Please see the following web page for the schedule of available courses and information on how to register for a course. Instruction starts January 14 and ends April 30. Registration must be completed by December 14. http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/Community_Credit/
If you are pursuing your school media endorsement, please note that we are offering online Saturday morning classes in Literature and Resources for Young Adults (LIS 404 LEB), Reference and Information Services (LIS 504LEB), and Cataloging and Classification (LIS 507LEA).
Marianne Steadley
Continuing Professional Development Program Director
501 E. Daniel St. Champaign IL 61820
217/244-2751
Fax: 217/244-3302 [newlib-l]
Tags: continuing education, GSLIS, UIUC
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October 25th, 2007 sarah
Last chance to register for “Libraries and Immersive Learning in 3D Virtual Environments” offered by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. This is a new non-credit, continuing education course held in Second Life.
Course description: What skills and techniques from other disciplines do librarians need to learn/use/modify, in order to take the library forward to its future incarnations? One of the hot topics in the world of MUVE’s, MMORPG’s, and game-based education is Immersive Learning (IL). Immersive Learning uses the ability of environments to supply information, and to engage more of the learner’s cognitive “package” than does a traditional read-lecture-and-discuss format. This course will begin by examining a few basic concepts of IL and looking at Second Life as an IL environment. The majority of the class will explore ways that librarians can support IL classes and how librarianship can incorporate IL into its practices: LIS education, providing information and education to patrons, etc.
Week One: Introduction to immersive learning Week Two: Second Life as an immersive learning environment Week Three: Immersive education in virtual space Week Four: Technologies of learning Week Five: Immersive learning library programs Week Six: Immersive reference services
Audience: Open to anyone interested in learning more about libraries and learning/teaching in virtual worlds. Experience in Second Life is strongly recommended. Educators and museum professionals wanting to learn more about immersive learning are welcome.
Instructors: JJ Jacobson (JJ Drinkwater) and S. Thompson (Hypatia Dejavu)
Section One: October 31; November 7, 14, 28; December 5 and 12 from 8:00 – 10:00 am SL (10:00 am – 12:00 pm central)
Section Two: November 1, 8, 15, 29; December 6 and 13 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm SL (8:00 – 10:00 pm central)
Cost: $250
For additional information and to register: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/Immersive_Learning.html [newlib-l]
Tags: second life, UIUC
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