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Hoopla Digital Adds DC #Comics | DBW + @HooplaDigital Introduces Dynamic #eBooks and Comics Experience | PRNewswire #publiclibraries

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Library Content Platform Hoopla Digital Adds DC Comics | Digital Book World
hoopla digital, the digital library content distributor, expands its offering of digital comics in a deal with DC Entertainment.

The platform has made a range of multimedia content available to library patrons since it was launched by Midwest Tape in 2013, including video, music, audiobooks and digital comics, all of which can be access by iOS and Android mobile apps. Ebooks, however, were a late addition, arriving in hoopla digital’s catalog only last month.

There’s no word on how many titles DC is contributing, but hoopla digital says its full content catalog now stands at 325,000 titles, and its user base has grown by more than 200% in the past year.

hoopla digital Introduces Dynamic eBooks and Comics Experience; Offers All-in-One App for… — HOLLAND, Ohio, May 19, 2015 | PRNewswire
HOLLAND, Ohio, May 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — hoopla digital (hoopladigital.com), the category-creating mobile and online service for public libraries, today announced the rollout of its new eBooks and Comics offering to its library customers and their patrons in the U.S. and Canada. With thousands of titles at launch, hoopla’s eBooks and Comics selection features works across genres – from children’s books and comics to biographies and self-help – from publishers such as RosettaBooks, Chicago Review Press, Dundurn Press and Tyndale House Publishers. The eBooks and Comics content joins hoopla digital’s catalog of more than 300,000 movies, TV shows, music albums and audiobooks.

What Every Major Job Category Pays, In One Chart | Vox #employment #MLIS

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Of interest to librarians and information services professionals note major job category “Education, training, and library.” See Bureau of Labor Statistics website for interactive charts and chart data.

New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics lets us see the average pay for every major occupational group and also the distribution of pay at each level for these groups. READ MORE: What every major job category pays, in one chart | Vox

Emerging Roles and Possible Futures for Librarians and Information Professionals | Emerald Group Publishing

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What professional roles do you play as a librarian/information professional? How have they changed during your career? And perhaps most important, how do you see them changing and evolving in the future?

These issues are discussed in an intriguing recent article in New Library World, “A systematic literature review informing library and information professionals’ emerging roles.” Evgenia Vassilakaki and Valentini Moniarou-Papaconstantinou, of the Library Science & Information Systems Department of TEI of Athens, Greece, uncovered their findings from peer-reviewed literature published between 2000 and 2014.

Although a variety of libraries were included, the authors state that “the majority of the literature focused on academic libraries.” All of the papers are in English, and “the majority of studies reported on research conducted in the United Kingdom and North America.”

Their findings have implications given the changes taking place in work, society and education, and how those changes affect our institutions. Six emerging roles were discovered, all of which would seem to be applicable within many types of libraries and information centres…READ MORE: Emerging roles and possible futures for librarians and information professionals | Emerald Group Publishing

62 Free Live Webinars for Librarians in May | Ellyssa Kroski | OEDB.org

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Professional development opportunities are still in full swing this month with an incredible 62 Free Live Webinars going on in the area of libraries and librarianship. So don’t switch to a summer schedule yet!  Instead, look into attending some of these amazing sessions this month!!

SEE: 62 Free Live Webinars for Librarians in May | Ellyssa Kroski | OEDB.org.

35 Free Live Webinars for Librarians in October | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org

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The Fall is full of opportunities for learning new skills and techniques. Here are 35 free professional development sessions that will be held live online this month.

On my list:

  • 8. Grantseeking Basics
  • 13./23. Social Media Networks: Enhancing Community Engagement Amongst People with Disabilities
  • 15. How to Hire IT Staff for Your Library

See: 35 Free Live Webinars for Librarians in October | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org.

Cramming for Career Fair | Information Space

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Cramming for Career Fair | Information Space

Seven informative tips for LIS students planning to attend career fairs. Although the article is specific to the SU iSchool most of the information is general in nature. I wish my school had held one for LIS students while I was completing my MLIS.

How will our country operate without the LOC? | MobyLives

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The country is bracing for a temporary shutdown of the Library of Congress, beginning today. The twenty-five library system will be closed to the public and researchers, according to an announcement on the site you can’t see, and all public events are canceled. The digital collections, online catalog, and “Ask A Librarian” services are temporarily suspended.

Read: How will our country operate without the LOC? | MobyLives

You may also like: Library Services Impacted by Government Shutdown | District Dispatch | ALA Washington

New Roles for New Times: Transforming Liaison Roles in Research Libraries | ARL®

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This report by Janice M. Jaguszewski, University of Minnesota Libraries, and Karen Williams, University of Arizona Libraries presents findings from interviews and other research into current trends in liaison librarianship, surfacing several challenges to the established, overarching liaison structure. This is the third report in the New Roles for New Times series.

NRNT-Liaison-Roles-final.pdf

via New Roles for New Times: Transforming Liaison Roles in Research Libraries | Association of Research Libraries® | ARL®.

Job Hunters’ Web Guide Guide | Hiring Librarians

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We’ve been featuring different websites for LIS job hunters for about six months now, and I thought it was time to share our list. 

So, in alphabetical order, here are the websites we’ve featured since starting with INALJ on December 6, 2012.

See the list of links: Job Hunters’ Web Guide Guide | Hiring Librarians.

The HLS Guide to Library School | Simple Book Production

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This ebook contains some new content but mostly posts that have appeared previously on the blog. It is not necessarily a compilation of the best of Hack Library School or even indicative of the breadth of our content; instead, we have selected content based on the most practical advice we could give to others to–you guessed it–hack library school. We’ve divided the content into three main sections: Before Library School, During Library School, and After Library School. Within these sections, you will also find sub-sections intended to help organize the content meaningfully.

See more: The HLS Guide to Library School | Simple Book Production.

The Hack Library School blog is a great resource for library school students. They posts interviews with LIS professionals on employing and interviewing LIS graduates. There are also posts by guest editors. Here’s a direct link to the pdf of the free eBook.

Hack Library School Guide to Library School (PDF)