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New Core Jobs: August 11, 2021

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Outreach & Education Librarian, University of Maryland, Baltimore – Health Sciences & Human Services Library, Baltimore, MD Data Management Librarian, University of Maryland, Baltimore – Health Sciences & Human Services Library, Baltimore, MD Technical Services Coordinator (PDF), Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Associate University Librarian for Research, Collections & Outreach, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Cataloger & Metadata Librarian, Charleston County Public Library, Charleston, SC Visit the Core Jobs Site for additional job openings and information on submitting your own job posting.

Register for a Forum Preconference!

Core Forum: Together Again, October 7-9, 2021, in Baltimore, Maryland

Preconference registration is open for Core Forum! Register for an all-day library buildings tour or an afternoon preconference offered on Thursday, October 7, in Baltimore, Maryland. We Create Inclusive Experiences! Library Buildings Tour (8am–4pm) Choose Your Own Adventure Scholarly Communication Assessment Rubrics (12–4pm) presented by Suzanna Conrad, Emily Chan, Daina Dickman and Nicole Lawson Crisis Communication/Message Dissemination for Libraries (12–4pm) presented by Gregg Dodd, Christine Feldmann and Meghan McCorkell Evidence Based Practice in Libraries (12–4pm) presented by Amanda Click, Claire Walker Wiley and Meggan Houlihan New Connections in the RDA Toolkit (12pm–4pm) presented by Stephen Hearn, Robert Maxwell and Kathy Glennan If you’ve already registered for Forum and would like to add a preconference to your existing registration, please contact us. The 2021 Forum is our inaugural conference for Core and is ALA’s first return to in-person events. It will bring together decision-makers and practitioners from the ALA division that focuses on: Access & Equity Assessment…Continue Reading

New Core Jobs: August 4, 2021

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Community Engagement and Economic Development Services Manager, Seattle Public Library, WA Electronic Resources Librarian, Miami University Libraries, Oxford, OH Systems Coordinator, PrairieCat (library consortium), Coal Valley or Bolingbrook, IL Digital Archivist, Rice University, Fondren Library, Houston, TX Instruction Librarian, Radford University, McConnell Library, Radford, VA Librarian I/II – Technology Education Librarian, Virginia Beach Public Library, VA IT Programmer Analyst, Sonoma County Library, Rohnert Park, CA Visit the Core Jobs Site for additional job openings and information on submitting your own job posting.

Summary, June 2021 Core e-Forum, “Does Better Training Lead to Greater Job Satisfaction?”

In the June Core e-Forum, participants were asked to discuss the relationship between job training and job satisfaction. The discussion also addressed ways to organize a successful training program and using instructional design methods to improve technical services training. The first day’s discussion revolved around more general questions about the nature of on the job training and participants’ own roles in on the job training. The purpose of the second day was to address more specific topics of training structure and organization, and to examine the link between successful training and job satisfaction. It was obvious from the lively discussion on Day 1 that we all are almost always engaged in on the job training and feel strongly about its nature and organization. Themes that consistently emerged were cross-training, documentation, continuity, understanding the reasons for changes, but also preserving institutional memory. The following questions were asked and answered many times…Continue Reading

New Core Jobs: July 28, 2021

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Cataloging/Metadata Librarian, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Acquisitions Librarian, Marquette University Libraries, Milwaukee, WI Cataloging and Metadata Librarian, Marquette University Libraries, Milwaukee, WI University Librarian, Capilano University, North Vancouver, WA Librarian, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA User Experience and Digital Projects Librarian, Texas A&M University Libraries, College Station, TX Branch Manager II, Mid-Columbia Libraries, Kennewick, MA Head of Library Systems, Virginia Tech University Libraries, Blacksburg, VA Head of Support Desk Operations, Virginia Tech University Libraries, Blacksburg, VA Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, Cambridge, MA Senior Electronic Resources Librarian, Rice University, Fondren Library, Houston, TX Visit the Core Jobs Site for additional job openings and information on submitting your own job posting.

New Version of Cataloging Correctly for Kids

Cataloging Correctly for Kids book cover

Cataloging library materials for children in the internet age has never been as challenging or as important. RDA: Resource Description and Access is now the descriptive standard, there are new ways to find materials using classifications, and subject heading access has been greatly enhanced by the keyword capabilities of today’s online catalogs. It’s the perfect moment to present a completely overhauled edition of this acclaimed bestseller. This new sixth edition guides catalogers, children’s librarians, and LIS students in taking an effective approach towards materials intended for children and young adults. Informed by recent studies of how children search, this handbook’s top-to-bottom revisions address areas such as: how RDA applies to a variety of children’s materials, with examples provided;   authority control, bibliographic description, subject access, and linked data; electronic resources and other non-book materials; and cataloging for non-English-speaking and preliterate children. With advice contributed by experienced, practicing librarians, this one-stop…Continue Reading

Summary, May 2021 Core e-Forum, “Advocacy for Implementing Faceted Vocabularies”

During the May 2021, Core eForum, ‘We Faceted our Seatbelts, Now What? Advocacy for Implementing Faceted Vocabularies in Public Facing Interfaces,’ we hoped to open a wide discussion on implementing faceted vocabs, perceptions of how those headings should be used or displayed, and what making use of these vocabularies can accomplish for institutions and collections metadata. There were some, albeit unintentional, thematic developments over the course of the 2 days, and we hope this report offers some glimpses of that development. For instance, we posed the question of whether inclusion of faceted terminology was perceived as duplication of LCSH terms present in the display for a resource’s metadata. Many feel there is duplication, and many are simply open to considering the topic. One interesting thing is that even though the term may look the same to the user, that the term coming from a faceted vocabulary is actually different. But…Continue Reading

New Core Jobs: July 21, 2021

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Acquisitions and Electronic Resources Librarian, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Director of Public Library, Town of Needham, MA Librarian II ~ eResources & Discovery Librarian, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD Head, Scholarly Communication & Data Services, UNLV University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV IT Library Portfolio Manager, Multnomah County, Portland, OR ILS Manager, Charleston County Public Library, Charleston, SC Manuscripts Archivist, Ohio University Libraries, Athens, OH Development Officer, Charleston County Public Library, Charleston, SC Visit the Core Jobs Site for additional job openings and information on submitting your own job posting.

2021 John Cotton Dana Awards Announced

John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award Recognizing and Rewarding Excellence in Strategic Communications

~ Eight Libraries Awarded $10,000 Grants from H.W. Wilson Foundation  ~ The 2021 John Cotton Dana (JCD) Award winners, recognized for their strategic communications efforts, have been selected. The John Cotton Dana Awards provide up to eight grants for libraries that demonstrate outstanding library public relations. The award is managed by the American Library Association’s Core Division and consists of $10,000 grants from the H.W. Wilson Foundation. The grants highlight campaigns feature a wide variety of strategies including: civic engagement programming, a virtual story time with more than 800 million views, a virtual Open House to celebrate a three-year renovation, and an awareness media campaign to highlight pandemic services. Other winning campaigns include the launch of a local artist music streaming site that had to retool mid-campaign as libraries closed, a Park & Connect Internet access campaign, a 2020 Census campaign that increases the county’s self-response rate and a library…Continue Reading