Rancho Cucamonga Library Job Openings

This deadline is kinda tight folks. Both positions deadline is Oct. 19, 2006 5 pm.

City of Rancho Cucamonga Library

• Library Assistant I: Reference & Technology -- $14.52/hr
  
• Library Assistant I: Children's Assistant and Storyteller -- $14.52/hr.

For more info: http://www.ci.rancho-cucamonga.ca.us/jobs.htm

Thanks to Jamie Holguin and Mrs. Kim for the head's up.

Art Center College of Design Library Staff Openings

Art Center College of Design in Pasadena still has two library assistant openings. If you are interested in applying for these two part-time positions, send your cover letter and resume to hr@artcenter.edu

In your cover letter write the "Library Assistant" position. To check out the college visit http://www.artcenter.edu

The best,

Joanne Kim, Coordinator
Library Technology Program

Warrior Librarian Blog

And they say librarians are boring or without a sense of humor! Hah, they haven't checked out this blog.

What do you get when you mix a MLS degree and (insert the name of your favorite funny person). You could waste a good hour or so plowing her 200+ pages of an alternative view of library and library related issues.

• Desiderata for Libraries
• OPAC Error Messages
• Vital Latin Phrases for Librarians
• Collective Nouns for Librarians
• Rejecting the Stereotypes

You might want to visit her ASAP, she is having trouble renewing her domain name. She doesn't know if she will be able to post on October 17th or not. Let's hope she slays the dragon computer that holds her URL captive.

Hail Biblia!

Dave Hook - The Industrial Librarian

There are all kind of librarians. Dave Hook is a librarian working in the Canadian aerospace industry. His blog is located at http://davehook.blogspot.com

Dave certainly writes about special libraries and library specific topics. He also has an interest in Canadian genealogy. This works out because well, he is Canadian. Dave is very good a spotting and explaining trends on the library horizon.

He also had a post for library technology blogs, both for IT and Library Support Staff.

There was one that looked promising, http://librarysupporter.blogspot.com but unfortunately has since been put on hiatus. Meaning the odds are slim to none it will be started up again. Not to say there isn't any value in the blog. I plan to troll through the long blog roll to come up with more goodies.

Job Opportunity at California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Jamie Holguin, who took Library 104 last semester, sent me a job information at Cal Tech. Please follow the Cal Tech link if you are interested in this position. Thank you Jamie!

Library Support - CIT13264DT - (CIT13264DT)

If you have a problem with the above link you can use http://tinyurl.com/kd37k

Summary From CalTech

This is an occasional position. Under moderate supervision this position will perform a variety of clerical functions in the Circulation Services Department of the Library System. On-the-job training will be provided.

Library Musical - The Video

Yes, the two words have been combined and god help us, it available for viewing online or downloading.

I'll watch this when I get home from work but you never know what you will find on the world wide web. http://www.prangstgrup.com/librarymusical

Squidoo – Informational Social Databases In Practice

Squidoo is a information social database. It is also a means to make money or capitalize on what you know. This is a little different from a web page or blog.

Here is an example. What if you are an expert in one specific thing? What if you gained experience in “comic book collecting” and you want to share that knowledge with others?

You could start a web page or blog but you don’t necessarily want to commit to posting every day. There are Wikis but other people could contribute or distort your content and there is a bit of a learning curve until you learned how to code in Wiki style.

Squidoo pages are called lenses. Each lens is a person who writes or explains about a topic. The person also can provide links to related material (and possibly generate affiliate income) and offer suggestions to other places that a visitor might want to check out.

Here are some examples of Squidoo Library Lens

• http://www.squidoo.com/library20
• http://www.squidoo.com/bloggingthelibrary
• http://www.squidoo.com/kimmels
  

Squidoo gives you get the opportunity to share information and establish a reputation. You also get the opportunity to directly profit from creating a Squidoo page. You tell other people about Squidoo and bada bing, there is a viral exchange of information.

The reality of using Squidoo is that there are some people who know their topic very well and have the talent to write about their subject. There are others folks that put up the bare basics of information but have a lot of affiliate links. Many of the lens are abandoned or never started because the person truly didn't understand the amount of work it would take to make a quality expert page.

Squidoo also has to compete against other information sites like Wikipedia and all the other wikis in cyberspace as well as the beloved Google, About.com and a couple of million blogs. Take a look and tell me what you think.

http://www.squidoo.com