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 Advice for a prospective librarian
Author:Robert Warner
Date:Friday, 22nd Dec 2006 20:24
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URL:http://www.freepint.com/go/b87796

My recently graduated son aged 23 has managed to get an interview in the new year as an assistant librarian [hopefully his first post-university job] at a well known management college. His only previous experience in this area has been filing reports, documents and government papers for a large consultancy company in an in-house repository. Have any Freepinters got some suggestions or guidance for his interview please?

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  Advice for a prospective librarian
My recently graduated son aged 23 has managed to get an interview in the new year as an assistant librarian ...
Robert Warner 22/12/06 20:24 87796
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I would research the organisation/College itself and see where Information/the Library fits into their overall vision for the future. Visit the ...
Dallas Roots 03/01/07 17:48 90462
    Re: Advice for a prospective librarian
Sorry to be negative, but headlines like this one make me glad my kids are not following me into the ...
Edwin Carter 05/04/07 14:06 121887
    Re: Advice for a prospective librarian
Hello Robert, I agree with Dallas, I think the best place to get advice from is CILIP. The web address ...
Nadia Bannister 05/01/07 11:42 90971
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You don't say what qualifications your son has. If he has a degree or postgraduate diploma or equivalent in ...
Atalanta 29/12/06 12:16 89247
    Re: Advice for a prospective librarian
It is entirely possible that the concept of librarianship in which she and I trained is, as Atalanta suggests, at ...
Diana Nutting 02/01/07 10:26 90118

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