Local Information
This is where you can find information about, and links to jobs, groups, and scholarships available to residents of Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties . My goal is to collect all of the important job and scholarship links that apply to East Coast Students. I need your help on this one. A hundred eyes and ears will work a lot better than two. I have started with the most obvious ones and I will always be on the lookout for more, but lets use our collective ability to help each other out, and create a career searching network. You can contact me with information a number of ways; direct e-mail using the contact link in the upper right-hand corner, blogs, or discussion forum. Any of these methods will work, and I will be sure to incorporate any useful information into this page.
East Coast Book Xchange
At the USF/SLIS Office located inside the Broward County Library we have a collection of LIS textbooks, free to use. Click on the link to check out the current list of available texts. You can also search for books and/or authors by using the search module in the upper left hand corner of the screen. Also, Please consider donating any textbooks that might be helpful to current and future USF students.
Book Xchange
Jobs
Although Miami-Dade County is still under a hiring freeze they are accepting applications to a number of library related jobs including Librarians, Librarian Interns, Librarian Trainees, and Library Pages apply at:
Miami-Dade Library Jobs
Broward County's situation is similar. They are under a hiring freeze, but they are accepting applications for degree holding librarians only. Apply here:
Broward Library Jobs
Palm Beach County has a Library Associate II position open. Search for it here:
Palm Beach Library Jobs
FIU has a position open for a Library Technical Assistant at the Law Library. Check it out here:
FIU Library Jobs
Groups
Just like we have an ALA, each of our counties has its own library association. There is a small membership fee, but the networking and scholarship opportunities far outweigh it.
- DCLA--Dade County Library Association
- BCLA--Broward County Library Association
- PBCLA--Palm Beach County Library Association
Scholarships
There are a lot of scholarships available to students of library and information science. I want to make sure you are aware of them. With a little bit of work this can be your one stop shop for accessing them.
The Council on Library and Information Resources is offering a scholarship to attend the World Library and Information Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. The deadline is January 21, 2008 :
CLIR Scholarship
The ALA gives thousands of dollars to students every year. They offer an abundance of scholarships. Check them out. They might save you thousands of dollars:
ALA Scholarships
