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In an era when the most arcane fact can be fished from the air via wireless, some librarians have headed into virtual worlds like Second Life, where “extreme virtual librarians” help patron-avatars answer various questions. Others have hit the real-life pavement — for example, when “street librarians” from Radical Reference milled among protesters, handing out bathroom maps and legal aid information while fielding questions through a live hookup to their reference desks. Check out this book cheering on these Brave New Librarians, championing the efficiency of online searches and digitized archives: "This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All."  read more »

To help improve ongoing efforts to recruit a diverse pool of talented and dynamic individuals to the profession of librarianship, librarians are invited to participate in a web-based survey which focuses on the accessibility and usefulness of existing recruitment materials. Responses to the survey will help determine how existing materials can be made more useful and readily available to members in their local recruitment efforts and may lead to the development of new career fair tools: "ALA Emerging Leaders team conducting survey."  read more »

Candidates often leave an interview thinking all went well, when in fact, the candidate is not going to be asked to come back. Here are two questions that the majority of candidates failed to answer adequately, and some suggestions so it doesn't happen to you: "2 Simple Questions that 10 Job Seekers Failed to answer."  read more »

The Wall Street Journal released a list of the 200 best and worst jobs for 2009, and Librarian made the list ranking 46th. The ranking was based on five criteria -- environment, income, employment outlook, physical demands and stress. And while everyone tends to envy those just above them in a hierarchy and there are more than a few surprises in the rankings, lists like this let us put things in perspective and give us all something to be thankful for: "Librarian...It could be Worse!"  read more »

Is there a way for Washington to boost libraries and library jobs as well as job seekers? The American Library Association (ALA) Washington Office has proposed including some 13,000 library jobs in the “Jobs for Main Street Act,” which will provide a one-time $650 million infusion to help libraries hire back staff let go due to budget cuts, and recruit new staff and/or expand services around job searching and employment. Check out how it would work in: "ALA 2010 Midwinter Meeting: $650M in Fed Funds Sought for Lib Jobs."  read more »

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