Tag Archives: alternative careers

Information Space: Vote for Your Favorite ‘New Librarianship’ Pinterest Board!

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Vote for Your Favorite ‘New Librarianship’ Pinterest Board!.

Information Space: Is a Master’s Degree in Library Science a Poor Investment? A Counter Perspective to Forbes Magazine

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Is a Master’s Degree in Library Science a Poor Investment? A Counter Perspective to Forbes Magazine.

Information Space: Librarians: Get a Job in Data Science, Make Lots of Money

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I question the “make lots of money” aspect but it certainly is an intriguing alternative.

Librarians: Get a Job in Data Science, Make Lots of Money.

New Librarianship: Librarians « Hack Library School

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A good post from Hack Library School questioning exactly what is “New Librarianship” anyways? Quotes the mission of New Librarianship from  The Atlas of New Librarianship website (a companion website to the book).

Coincidentally, The Atlas of New Librarianship is the 2012 ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Award winner for Best Book in Library Literature.

New Librarianship: Librarians « Hack Library School.

Information Space: 61 Tech Geek Jobs for LIS Grads

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A survey of the current offering of non-traditional LIS job in the United States from Information Space – the Syracuse University iSchool blog.

61 Tech Geek Jobs for LIS Grads.

Infonista Blog

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The Infonista blog is a great resource for topics related to careers in information work. The author seems to post every few weeks.

 

Data Scientist Career Infographic

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From this Proverbial Lone Wolf blog post.

61 Non-Librarian Jobs for LIS Grads

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Here is a link to Syracuse University’s blog called Information Space. This post was particularly helpful for me in thinking about alternative information careers.