Search for Job Opportunites

If you are a graduting student in library school and hunting a job now, we are in the same boat. I'd like to share some job search resources here, although I believe you might already know many of them. But I still have a good tip for you: try to use a RSS aggregator (e.g. bloglines) to put together some RSS feeds of job sites. That could save you a lot of time.

Some good job sites for LIS professionals:

Jobs Page - University of Toronto Faculty of Information Science. This is a very useful site for Canadian Library and Information Science Positions.

www.lisjobs.com - Librarian's Job Search Source. This US site contains links to most major LIS job listings including Canadian sites.

Job Search and Career Counselling - Information & Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Contains a section for recent MLIS graduates. Provides many links to other Library job search resources. Most of the jobs listed are located in the U.S.

LIS Employment Resources - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This is an excellent resource for U.S. positions. Provides a general list of sites that have collections of LIS positions.

Especially for Librarians Employment Resources - Internet Public Library. Provides many annotated links to library and information science related career listings. Job search resources are also included.

Library Job Postings on the Internet - By Sarah Nesbeitt. An excellent website for library and information careers. A clickable map allows you to search by U.S. State, Canada, Europe, and Australia/New Zealand. You can also search by library type. A very comprehensive MLIS job search tool.

The Canadian Library Association has an excellent list of jobs available across Canada and beyond.

The Ontario Library Association has two job Hotsites: one for librarians and one for library technicians.

The University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, maintains a site called Library and Information Science Employment Resources.

The Foothills Library Association in Calgary lists vacancies for the prairie provinces and western Canada.

The Manitoba Library Association lists jobs within that province

LIBJOBS -Library and Information Science jobs mailing list. A mailing list for librarians and information professionals seeking employment. Subscribers receive only job postings.

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