Jumpstart Your Career in Grad School: An intensive workshop for library & information science graduate students
This workshop is being presented by the UCLA Department of Information Studies and the SLA Student Chapter at UCLA, with generous sponsorship from the SLA Southern California Chapter.
Saturday, October 15, 2011, 9:00am-5:00pm. Continental breakfast, lunch and snacks are included. The networking session on Friday, October 14 has been canceled due to a demonstration in the vicinty of campus.
Description
Your MLIS or MIS will arm you with terrific information skills, but it will be up to you to turn those skills into a rewarding, resilient, and sustainable career. What are the strategies and tactics you can put into action NOW as you progress through your program to help ensure that you graduate with a degree – and a career? Created by two seasoned information professionals, Kim Dority and Scott Brown, this intensive, day-long workshop will provide the insights, inspiration, coaching and practical tools you need to create the career of your dreams.
Why attend?
This hands-on workshop will provide you with:
- career-building agenda of actions to take during your LIS program that will position you for job opportunities upon graduation
- an understanding of the wide-ranging universe of LIS opportunities within both LIS-focused and non-LIS environments, and how to build and adapt your transferable skills to pursue a variety of careers
- steps to utilize the two primary career-building tools – networking and building a professional brand – to help you start building the "career platform" that will lead to a resilient, sustainable post-grad career
Your registration fee includes a workbook with more than 35 pages of LIS career information, worksheets, tools, and resource lists to help attendees continue to build on what they’ve learned in the workshop. Get a sneak peek at the workbook.
Instructors
Kim Dority
Kim is the founder and president of Dority & Associates, an information strategy and content development company focusing on research, writing, editing, information process design, and publishing. She has worked as an information professional in academia, publishing, telecommunications, and librarianship, in for-profit and nonprofit settings, for both established companies and start-ups. She has led the development of several innovative information projects, including the first online academic library and the first website devoted to resources and community for people with disabilities.
In addition to her work with Dority & Associates, Kim created and has taught for the past eleven years a highly popular course on alternative LIS career paths for the University of Denver. She has spoken on a wide range of LIS career topics at national conferences, addressed LIS graduate-student groups on career development strategies, and written numerous articles and books on LIS career topics, including Rethinking Information Work: A Career Guide for Librarians and Other Information Professionals (Libraries Unlimited, 2006) and the forthcoming LIS Career Sourcebook (Libraries Unlimited, 2012). She writes the Infonista.com blog on LIS career topics, and created and manages the LinkedIn "LIS Career Options" group, with more than 1,800 members from 25 different countries commenting on roughly 200 discussions. Kim received her MLS from the University of Denver.
Scott Brown
Scott draws on over 20 years' experience in library and information organizations (including public, academic and corporate settings) to bring an extraordinarily broad range of expertise to his LIS career coaching. Scott is founder and president of Social Information Group, an information practice focusing on the effective use of social networking tools for finding and sharing information. He has helped libraries, Fortune 500 companies, startups, government organizations and individuals understand and effectively use social tools to achieve organizational goals. He is currently completing a book on this topic, due out in 2012.
A frequent speaker nationally on many areas of information work, Scott also teaches adjunct for the San Jose State University and University of Denver LIS programs, and has mentored students from those programs. He has taught on topics including effectively marketing LIS skills online, conflict management for information professionals, and career transitions, among others. In addition, he provides professional coaching services specifically for information professionals.
Scott is currently President-Elect of the Association for Independent Information Professionals (AIIP). He received his MLIS from San Jose State University and Masters in Counseling from Regis University (Colorado).
