Continue reading »]]> Full-time faculty Member Thom Barthelmess will present a workshop outlining content requirements for the GSLIS ePortfolio. The workshop will include reasons for and expectations of the ePortfolio; understanding and meeting the ePortfolio minimum requirements; and selection and description of artifacts for inclusion. He will also field your ePortfolio questions.

The workshop has been scheduled for:

Saturday
May 19, 2012
The Butler Children’s Literature Center (Rebecca Crown Library, room 214)
10:30 am start
12 pm adjourn

RSVP are required to: settmari@dom.edu, your participation will be confirmed via e-mail.

¿Questions about the workshop content?
Thomas (Thom) J. Barthelmess
708/524-6861
tbarthelmess@dom.edu

Continue reading »]]> Taxonomy Intern for American Planning Association in Chicago

20 hours per week
$16 per hour
Approx. 12 weeks (June, July, August)

Intern will assist the taxonomy manager and web editor with the following tasks:

• Tagging priority website content in the metadata model.
• Testing the Word template used by editors.
• Reviewing metadata records for accuracy and completeness.
• Troubleshooting XML issues.

Qualifications:
The successful intern will be a current student or recent graduate of a Bachelor’s or Master’s program in Library Science, Information/Computer Sciences, or another relevant field. Intern will also possess: fluency with metadata concepts, XML, and RDA; ability to work independently; attention to detail; and excellent writing and copyediting skills.

Application process:
Send resume, cover letter and list of 3 professional references to Rana Salzmann, rsalzmann@planning.org<mailto:rsalzmann@planning.org>

In your cover letter, please explicitly address your past experience or education related to metadata, taxonomies, and database maintenance.
Candidates selected for interview will also take a proofreading/copyediting test.

Continue reading »]]> If you didn’t stop by the Edible Book Festival this year, you missed out!
8 people entered the fest, and the submissions were spectacular.

The Book Table kindly donated a $20 gift card to the best submission.

Everyone who attended the festival voted on their favorite, and the winner was Emily Meyer with her submission, The Van Gogh Cafe by Cynthia Rylant. We were all very impressed with her decorating skills!

Here are the rest of the submissions:

Colleen M. Dolan – The Real Story of Stone Soup by Ying Chang Compestine. She also wowed the crowd with her memorized story-time performance of her book!

Cyndi Rademacher – Elmer by David McKee

Sonia Reppe – The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

Grace Radkins – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Julia Monczunski – LMNO Peas by Keith Baker

T.J. Szafranski – In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Mindy Perry – The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Katie Hauser – Fancy Nancy by Jane O’Connor

I hope you consider joining in on the fun next year, either enter a submission or stop by to eat. Yummy.

- Mindy Perry, VP LISSA

Continue reading »]]> The Butler Center is looking for volunteers!

LISSA received this email from Stephanie Swope:

“I am emailing to tell you about a fun special volunteer opportunity through the Butler Center coming up next month. On April 28, we are going to be joining forces with Open Books to hold a free “book fair”.

Held simultaneously with the Open Books sidewalk sale at the Open Books store (213 W. Institute Pl., Chicago), we will be giving away children’s and young adult books to community members. We are also hoping to have a craft table so that kids who attend can make a bookmark to take home with their brand new book.

Please note: Each child in attendance will receive one book. Depending on how things go, we may allow parents to pick out a teen book for themselves – modeling reading is important! – but at this point we are planning on one book per person in attendance so that we have enough to go around.

The event will last from noon to 3 pm, with some time before and after for set-up and tear-down. Volunteers will help attendees pick out books, as well as help with the bookmark station (this will be more of a supervisory thing – I am certainly not going to expect you to be a great artist or super crafty!).

If you are interested in volunteering, either for a two-hour block or for the whole four hours, please email me (sswope@dom.edu) and I will send you a sign-up sheet so that we can have an idea of how many volunteers we will have helping us on that day.”

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Association Night 2012 was a great success. We would like to thank our panel of Associations who took the time out of their busy schedules to talk to us about what their Association has to offer.

Best of all, they shared job and interview tips!

1. Research the library or organization prior to the interview.

2. Join LISSA while at Dominican. It shows leadership and demonstrates the ability to work on committees.  We were fortunate enough to have Bridget Bulger from Special Library Association, fellow alumni who served on LISSA. (LISSA gives this tip a thumbs up!)

3. Be prepared to answer different questions.

4. Join Associations for networking with other librarians and to build friendships. You’ll be surprised at the lasting friendships and fun you can have.

5. Remember that Social Media can’t fully replace face to face contact.

6. Be a mover and a shaker! Think beyond and look to the future of how the profession is changing.

7. There are so many different places to work besides public, academic, or school libraries. The government and corporate sector employ many librarians. Widen your job search and you might be surprised at what you will find.

8. It’s OK not to know what you want to do when you leave Dominican University and start job searching.

9. On interviews, ask what the organizational climate is like. You want to make sure it’s a good fit for you and the potential employer. You are interviewing them just as much as they are interviewing you.

10. Sign up for listservs for tips and answers to questions from fellow librarians.

11. Open Cover Letters is a helpful website for writing cover letters.

12. Do mock interviews with faculty, or even a family member.

13. Ask questions on an interview. The likelihood of getting a job decreases if questions are not asked. This is an opportunity to define yourself as a professional by asking well thought out questions.

14. Don’t be scared to lead with any projects or programs you participated in on your resume. Always include volunteer information on your resume, especially if you don’t have library related work experience. Extracurricular activities demonstrate the ability to balance multiple projects.

15. Don’t disregard anything you’ve done; you never know how that can relate to an aspect of the job you are applying for.

Associations that attended:

SLA – Bridget Bulger, Librarian, Morningstar, Inc., Student Outreach Chair

MLA – Ruth Holst, Associate Director, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest and Past President

REFORMA – Armando Trejo, Archivist/ILL librarian, Elgin Community College, Midwest Chapter President

ACRL – Mary Jane Petrowski, Associate Director

NARA, SSA, CAA – Katie Dishman, National Archives and Record Administration

ALSC – Dan Rude, Marketing/Membership Specialist

YALSA – Thom Barthelmess, Curator, Butler Children’s Literature Center

PLA – Amy Sargent, Representative

ILA – Anne Bustamante, Representative

ISLMA – Debbie Turner, Policy Function Representative; Chris Graves, President-Elect

LLAMA – Christopher Stewart, Assistant Professor, Dominican University, Treasurer