Los Angeles Public Library - Encino-Tarzana Branch

Getting a little help along
the way

It's not every day that you will meet so many people who will tell you that they are passionate about their jobs and what they do. There are a multitude of ways to connect to the library community. Need help obtaining your dream of a new, different, or better library job? Just ASK!

How may we best help you?

• Community Connections
  • Find people and/or groups who can help you pursue your interest in a library career
   
• Locate scholarship, grant and internship information
   
• Attend a conference
  If your city has even been taken over by swarms of people speaking in library jargon, it's likely that it was a national, regional or state library association conference. By attending, you may learn more about current issues, talk to employers from other areas of the country, and meet a large range of exhibitors who offer services and products to libraries. Conference information can often be found on library association websites linked on a variety of places on LibraryCareers.org. You may wish to contact the association to learn if attendance would be valuable for you. Some even offer grants and orientation sessions for first-time attendees.
   
• Find a job

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Internet Public Library - Ask a Question
A learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information.

Test Careers with Informational Interviews
Topper, Elisa F. American Libraries, October 2003