Call for Participation: LIS Hiring and Careers Research

Hi Friends!

I’m reaching out to a new round of folks for the series I call Researcher’s Corner. This series invites people who are researching some aspect of LIS hiring and careers to share their work in informal language, here on Hiring Librarians. Topics have included but are not limited to job seeking practices and experiences, career preparation, equity in the profession, salary, job skill requirements, and recruitment practices and experiences.

I have combed the databases for current papers and am in the process of emailing people to ask if they are interested. However, my dumb emails tend to get sent to spam by dumb overly-aggressive university spam filters. So, I thought I’d reach out in another way.

Are you a researcher into one of these topics? Would you like to share your research here? If so, would you please get in contact with me, either through my contact form or directly at HiringLibrarians at gmail?

Your Pal,

Emily

#LISResearch #libraries #libraryCareers #libraryHiring #libraryJobs #LISCareers

My paper from the European Conference on Information Literacy has been published!! 🥳

'Approaches to exploring the information worlds of women engineering students', free to read until the end of February at this link: https://rdcu.be/dxI05

#InformationLiteracy #infolit #LISresearch #ECIL2023

I found this article oddly frustrating. It is good to see a structured and systematic approach to testing ChatGPT for library/reference queries. But many of the queries tested are utterly inappropriate for what ChatGPT is actually designed to do... #LISresearch

https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/26102/34024

Recording & summary of last LARK webinar for the year: 'Reflections on Research in Practice'. Three presenters discussing topics around reflexivity, values, and advocacy in practice-based research. https://lark-kollektive.blogspot.com/2022/12/after-reflections-on-research-in.html

#LISresearch #EBLIP

I wrote a thing! A blog post about my experience so far as a new PhD student in library & information science (LIS):

https://woodsiegirl.wordpress.com/2022/11/20/my-experience-of-starting-an-lis-phd/

#PhDStudents #LIS #LISresearch #Librarians #InfoLit #InformationLiteracy