Specialization-Specific+Resources

ACADEMIC Tips for Landing an Academic Library Job (Anna Lewis, Assistant Director, UW-Madison MERIT LIbrary)

How to stay afloat in the academic library job pool (edited by Teresa Y. Neely ; foreword by Camila A. Alire.)

ARCHIVES [|Society of American Archivists Online Career Center]

[|Get Archivist Jobs!]

[|How Can I Get a Job?]

[|A Day in the Life of an Archivist]D

GOVERNMENT Careers in Federal Libraries

How to Find a Federal Job (Ms. Helen Q. Sherman, 2011 ALA Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 24, 2011)

An Overview of Federal Librarianship Overview written by one of Kim Dority's students, 2012

INTERNATIONAL

LIS Jobs Outside the U.S.

International Opportunities for Information Management Profession (University of Michigan, International Center)

IRRT International Connections Committee

ALA International Funding and Employment Opportunities Listing

International Library Associations (compiled by SLA)

Study Guide for the State Dept Foreign Service Officer Test

Also a note from someone who recently took it: " It took me less time than they gave to complete my test. The hardest part of it was the short answer part simply because I had a strong opinion and lots of facts I wanted to present. I got them all in with like 4 seconds to spare. My advice for that...make yours as short and sweet as you can while covering your main argument. Just follow the study guide and and do your practice test and you will find the test is a piece of cake! :) The FSOT is generally 3 hours long (each section has individual time limits: i.e. Job Knowledge is 60 questions in 90 minutes, written essay is 30 minutes, etc.). If you pass, you have three weeks to work on the Personal Narratives (from the time you received notification that you passed). If you get accepted to the OA, it'll be a day long event with three separate sections. If, at any time, you do not get to the next round, you have to wait until the following year to start over, beginning with the FSOT (written / multiple choice test). For example, if you took the test in February and got to the OA's (say in May...) and didn't get accepted, you would have to wait until the Following February to retake the test and try again." //(fall 2012)//

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MUSIC

Day in the Life of a Music Librarian