LIBR 246-04/13 Web 2.0 (Fall 2010)

This is great Tracy! Also...thank you for linking this blog. I love it and now have it bookmarked on Delicious and am subscribing to it on Google Reader!

I would second Kim's response to your comment -- you are doing EXACTLY what every graduate LIS student should be doing to be competitive in this tight market. For our distance learning librarian position opening a year and a half ago, we got close to 100 applications. Many were just out of library school. The sort of people who stood out to me were those who had taken the initiative to get lots of experiences in the profession during library school, publish, speak and continue their learning. People who take the initiative in library school are usually the sort who will go above and beyond at work, and I ended up being 100% right about that when I hired my employee, Heidi (who is AMAZING!).

Expecting that this degree is all you need to get a job is unrealistic, but it's also frustrating that grad schools are not making that clear enough. Good for you for taking it upon yourself to make the most of this time in school and make yourself more marketable to prospective employers.