LibGig Blogs

Tips From the Inside Kari Anderson, Vice President of Client Services at LAC (Library Associates Companies), is a new contributor to LibGig. With over 25 years of professional library experience (academia, corporate/private sector, government, special libraries,...) she has much to share about the industry and more importantly on jobs within the inforamation world. Her regular contributions will be helpful to job seekers as well as those currently working in the field as she is out there daily hiring, managing staff and projects, working with information clients, etc. You couldn't ask for someone with their finger more on the pulse of what is happening with information and libraries today. Follow Kari's contributions here.

Need to Know

Columnist/Blogger: Elisa Topper

Elisa Topper, LibGig's columnist for "Need to Know", brings over 30 years of professional librarianship to the company with experience in special, public and university libraries as well as a national position at the American Library Association and serving as Assistant Dean at the Graduate Library School at Dominican University. Most recently, she was the Director of the Dundee Public Library.

In 2003, she created and was the sole contributor for “Working Knowledge” a monthly workplace column in the American Library Association’s magazine, American Libraries. That year, Library Journal named her as one of 50 “Movers and Shakers” for her recruitment efforts in the library field. In 2006, she left this column to take over “What’s New in Libraries” in the UK’s journal called, New World Libraries. In January 2009, she will be a columnist for LibGig with the column-“Need to Know.”

Ms. Topper received her BA in American Studies from the University of South Florida, her MLS from Florida State University and a Master’s degree from Loyola University of Chicago in Industrial Relations/Personnel. Read more...

Burning at Both Ends

Blogger: eViolet

A LibGig contest winner turned LibGig blogger, Eviolet is LibGig’s newest addition. As an MLS student at Rutgers in New Jersey, Eviolet will be sharing her experiences of being a student by night but a full-time employee by day and the ways in which she tries for a balanced life. Plus she’ll be keeping the readership abreast of the happenings within the trenches of library science seen through the eyes of an up and coming information professional. This should make for a very interesting blog! Read more...

Dispatches From Library School

Blogger: Tawny Sverdlin

A recent graduate from SJSU SLIS, Tawny Sverdlin has special interests in digital technology, digital audio archives, search engine optimization, oral history and in designing user-friendly interfaces. She is also a poet and musician.Read more...

Blogger: Amelia Abreu

Amelia Abreu worked as archivist and academic librarian before entering the PhD program at the University of Washington Information School. Focusing her research on classification, she hopes to have a hand in developing tools and standards for libraries. If she wasn't a librarian, she would be a movie critic, an antique dealer, or a demographer. Read more...

Blogger: the bookish bluestocking

Our anonymous blogger is a (relatively new) Public Librarian working in a large metropolitan area. The Bluestocking says, "I am interested in many different aspects of Information Science including Intellectual Freedom, Reader's Advisory and Advocacy. I also have many interests outside of the Library world that I continue to pursue as well." Read more...