CLA Student Chapter at UWO Launches Mentorship Program

The CLA Student Chapter at the University of Western Ontario has recently announced the beginning of a new mentorship program. In September 2005 it will begin as a pilot project and expand into a full program beginning in January 2006.

Librarians or Information Professionals who desire to provide support and coaching for interested students, thereby contributing to the education of a future professional, should contact Sophia Apostol, Project Officer for the CLA Student Chapter, at saposto2@uwo.ca for further information and program guidelines. You can also see the CLA UWO Student Chapter Mentorship Program Charter for more information about being a mentor or mentee.

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Skillsets for librarians

Librarian.net has posted a good summary of a couple of recent posts on what technology skills new and no- so-new librarians should have in their bag of tricks.

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Tips for the Job Hunt

Here's a link to a great post from the "Information Wants to be Free" blog with tips for the academic librarian job hunt.

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Some titles for your summer reading

Stephen Abram, SIRSI's VP of Innovation and last year's president of CLA, has contributed a chapter entitled Next Generation Librarians in the Workplace in the recently published Staff Planning in a Time of Demographic Change. [Stephen's Lighthouse]

Also looking toward the future is last year's CLA CACUL Division president (and this year's Re:Generations Chair) Su Cleyle has edited, with Louise M. McGillis, the recently published Last One Out Turn Off the Lights: Is This the Future of American and Canadian Libraries?

Oh yeah. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is available tomorrow and by Canadian law you are not allowed to read the book until tomorrow! [boing boing]

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Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki

Last week Meredith Farkas created Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki and I for one am pleasantly surprised how much good stuff can already be found within it.

New librarians may be particularly interested in the Professional Section which currently features some best practices in:

• Keeping Up With the Profession
• Looking for a Job

And like most non-reviewed things on the web, this website requires caveat emptor from you, dear reader. For example, currently under "Looking for a Job" is the advice to "Start a blog! If even if you aren't yet working as a librarian, you can differentiate yourself from the crowd by starting a professional blog". This is contrary to a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article in which the author strongly urges academics looking for work to restrain from such behaviour [link expires in 5 days]

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