Student Resources:  Office of Student and Academic Services

Career Resources

This portal or starting point leads you to resources that will help you to discover the career position that suits you best.

Career information especially for MLIS and MSIM students is now available. Pages for our other programs are under development and will be posted when available.

Strategies and Preparation

Individual Advice and Services

• The UW Career Center offers year-round services for students and alumni. It is located in Mary Gates Hall (MGH) 134, off the First floor Commons.
  • Receive résumé advice or other quick tips during a 15-minute walk-in appointment or by e-mail.
  • Schedule a personal appointment or a mock interview with a job counselor by phoning 206-543-0535 or dropping by the Center.
  • Check the calendar for events such as Career Week, career fairs, and résumé and portfolio workshops.
  • Use the repository service to make your letters of recommendation available online.
  • Jobs and internships can be found through GradStudentJobs and HuskyJobs.
• Professional ALA Résumé Review. Offered at the ALA annual conference and midwinter meeting. Members of ALA's New Member Round Table (NMRT) receive free résumé review year round by e-mail.

Online Guidance

• Timeless advice and strategies for securing a position as a professional librarian.
• Résumés and cover letters. Prepared by the California Job Search Guide.
• Job hunting in a non-bubble economy: Part I: Résumés and Part II: Interviews

Articles and Links

• 100 Job Resources for Librarians
• Successful future of the librarian: bookperson or knowledge worker?
• Real job titles for library and information science professionals
• Truth and libraries
• Academic library of the future
• Information curriculum for the 21st Century
• Jumping off the disintermediation bandwagon: reharmonizing LIS education for the realities of the 21st Century
• Alternative careers for librarians
• Employer advice for Liberal Arts majors
  Competencies for Special Librarians
• Non-traditional jobs for Special Librarians
• Roundabout journey to a tenure-track position
• Job of a lifetime: Around the world in 100 days

Job Finding

Jobs can be located in many ways: by networking with other professionals, by subscribing to email distribution lists, or by searching online job banks.

Networking

iSchool Resources

The Information School maintains two e-mail distribution lists of job postings and a list of potential employers for iSchool students:

• iStuJobs. This list is for student job postings (opportunities for enrolled students). Anyone can subscribe and post to this open list. Employers can simply address messages to istujobs@u.washington.edu and they will be posted. View the iStuJobs Archives.
• iProJobs. This list is for professional job postings (opportunities for students after graduation). Anyone can subscribe and post to this open list. Employers can address messages to iprojobs@u.washington.edu and they will be posted. View the iProJobs Archives.
• List of Potential Employers
• We have a new SharePoint site called Professional Employment Opportunties.  This site contains scanned copies of formal job announcments that were received by Student Services.  The hard copies of these documents are located in the Student Services Office, Mary Gates Hall, Room 470.

Job Search Engines

• Information Resources for Information Professionals offers general interest, trends, job postings, listservs, etc. The site is managed Joe Ryan, Syracuse University.
• WorkSource Washington Centers provide all the information, technology, and services that job seekers need for successful careers. Post your résumé or browse local newspaper adds and national job boards/search engines (select Job Links on the main page).
• CareerJet features one-pass searching of a growing selection of job sites without having to visit each site.
• WomensJobList.com: The Internet's Leading Job Search and Resume Promotion Service for Women. It searches many lists.

Job Exchanges

• LIBEX is the International Library and Information Job Exchange. "LIBEX acts as a clearinghouse for CILIP Members [in the United Kingdom (UK)] and library and information staff in other countries who are interested in arranging a job exchange between a UK-based post and a non-UK based post."
• Bibliozine.com lists local and international exchange sites.
• ALA's International Relations Round Table (IRRT) International Exchanges Committee provides many useful links and resources.
• The Mortenson Center for International Library Programs works to "strengthen international ties among libraries and librarians." Since the Mortenson Center was founded in 1991 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), more than 680 participants from 86 countries have participated in Mortenson programs. The Mortenson Center has partners in Costa Rica, Haiti, South Africa, the Russian Federation, and the United States.