January 4, 2008

New Discussion Forums

Check out the new dis­cus­sion forums Rachel Singer Gor­don has started over on LISjobs.

“LISjobs.com, the largest free library career por­tal on the Inter­net, is pleased to announce the launch of its new online com­mu­nity for librar­i­ans. Devoted entirely to career devel­op­ment and job hunt­ing, these forums pro­vide a space for librar­i­ans, LIS stu­dents, library work­ers, and infor­ma­tion pro­fes­sion­als to dis­cuss pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment issues.”

The cur­rent forum top­ics cover LIS schools, jump­start­ing your career, pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment and par­tic­i­pa­tion, talk­ing tenure, pro­fes­sional writ­ing, and work/life balance.

In other news, Amer­i­can Libraries has started its own dis­cus­sion forum based on con­tent from the mag­a­zine and other ALA top­ics, so the LISjobs forums make a nice com­ple­ment. Together, these are two great places to con­nect with your col­leagues. Thanks for pro­vid­ing this ser­vice, Rachel.

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7:29 am Comments (4)

4 Comments »

  1. Thanks for the men­tion, Jenny. The ALA forums are com­ing up 404 — is that URL correct?

    Not Found

    The requested URL /forums/ was not found on this server.

    Addi­tion­ally, a 404 Not Found error was encoun­tered while try­ing to use an Error­Doc­u­ment to han­dle the request.

    Comment by Rachel — January 5, 2008 @ 10:39 pm

  2. Thanks, Rachel — you’re right that the URL was incor­rect. It’s fixed now. :)

    Comment by jenny — January 6, 2008 @ 9:37 am

  3. Inter­est­ing blog, for sure. A lot of good data and resources on here, and I wanted to share another resource that has a lot of good infor­ma­tion on school and uni­ver­si­ties, as well as some good stu­dent feed­back culled from Yahoo Answers. Dis­cus­sion forums are always a good place to look to find a feel for a cer­tain school and to guage the atmos­phere as dic­tated by the stu­dents. CampusExplorer.com is my favorite site right now that com­bines both in-depth info on schools as well as use­ful advice and dis­cus­sion points on many of the schools and pro­grams. It also has a ton of inter­est­ing and unique videos on each school. If noth­ing else, it’s an easy to nav­i­gate site and a use­ful tool, and it’s free. I also like going to Col­lege­Board, Col­lege­Source and CollegeNet.

    Dave

    Comment by Dave — January 18, 2008 @ 1:33 pm

  4. Hello,

    Is any­one know MINES for libraries (Mea­sur­ing the impact of net­worked elec­tronic ser­vices) ? Have any clue on what tech­nolo­gies is behind MINES ? Thank you for your help.

    Comment by Jade — May 31, 2008 @ 6:55 am

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