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Professional Activities

  • Librarian's Professional Development
  • Mentoring
    The UCI Libraries and LAUC-I have been working hard to foster an "environment of mentoring" here at UCI. The LAUC-I Professional Development Committee developed a document articulating our goals for mentoring which include: providing all librarians new to the organization with opportunities to become involved in a mentor/mentee relationships, recognizing those who participate in mentoring relationships, and articulating the responsibility that librarians at all levels have to assist their colleagues in becoming successfully involved in professional organizations.
  • Career Recruitment and Outreach
    The LAUC-I Career Recruitment and Outreach Program aims to promote the awareness and pursuit of careers in libraries, archives, and other information organizations among students and library staff. Initiated in 2003, this program grew out of the recognition that our profession faces a critical shortage of trained librarians, archivists and other information professionals. It is expected that over the next 5-10 years, more than one-quarter of the nation’s 125,000 librarians will retire, providing significant opportunities for graduates with a Masters of Library Science (MLS) degree or its equivalent. Through programming and other publicity, LAUC-I is actively working to encourage interest in careers in libraries, archives, and other information organizations -- careers which are dynamic and important, all the more so in an “information age” marked by rapidly changing technologies, the globalization of communication, and the increasing diversity of our communities. Our recruitment brochure is widely disseminated on campus and we have initiated collaborative programming with the UCI Career Center. The success of this program already is apparent in the increasing number of students who are contacting our the UCI Libraries Career Resource Librarians to discuss careers in libraries and archives as well as graduate programs and applications.
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Last Updated October 26, 2007