Fall 2017 Professional Development Day

Please join us for our Fall Professional Development Day:

  • What: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Join the Conversation
  • When: December 1st, 2017 9a-1p
  • Where: Cuesta College Library, San Luis Obispo
  • Featuring:
    • Jody Gray, Director for the Office of Diversity, Literacy and Outreach, American Library Association
    • Akemy Bon-Flores, Acting Coordinator of the Tri-Counties Region, Service Employees International Unition
  • Cost: $20 for librarians and $15 for library staff and students
  • Link to register: https://tinyurl.com/h84jyty
    • Registration Deadline: 11/9/17

Ilene F. Rockman CARL/ACRL Conference Scholarship

If you are a library school student or an early-career librarian with less than 2 years working in the profession, please consider applying for the Ilene F. Rockman CARL/ACRL Scholarship!

The Ilene F. Rockman Scholarship is to subsidize conference attendance for 2 student or early-career members of the CARL community at the 2018 CARL Conference .  The two recipients will receive $500 each to subsidize the cost of registration, travel, and accommodations.   The deadline to apply is Friday, November 10, 2017.

Please find more information here:

http://www.carl-acrl.org/awards/rockman/rockman-application-process.html

 Ilene Rockman was a long time member of CARL who worked in the CSU for more than 30 years as a librarian, faculty member, and administrator.  Recipient of numerous awards including the 2005 ACRL Instruction Librarian of the Year and the 2003 ACRL Distinguished Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarian, Ilene was a visionary in our profession, a dedicated librarian, a wonderful colleague to work with, and an extraordinary mentor to many fellow librarians.   As academic librarians Ilene always said we should be, “making the difference in the life of a student each day.”

Job Opening: Reference & Instruction Librarian at UCSB

The UC Santa Barbara Library seeks a collaborative, dynamic, service-oriented librarian to foster excellence in scholarship, research, and teaching through the delivery of innovative reference, consultation, and instructional services to the campus community. The successful candidate will also facilitate access to scholarly information sources by shaping and building two to three collections in the social sciences and serving as an expert resource to support traditional and emerging research practices and curricular development. The effective date of this position is the 2017-18 academic year.

See: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF01100

Job Opening: Librarian I/II at Santa Barbara Public Library Eastside Branch

The Santa Barbara Public Library is seeking an innovative Librarian who is customer service oriented, flexible, outgoing, creative, and has a passion for public libraries to lead the Eastside Library Branch. Professional library work may include program planning and implementation, collection development and evaluation, sophisticated reference work; public relations, and managing social media; and conducting training for library users in a modern information environment; supervision and evaluation of staff and volunteers. Cultivation and maintenance of community contacts; public presentations; committee work; media mentorship; general customer assistance and instruction using electronic resources, the internet and print resources. Other professional responsibilities may include management of budget allotment; developing marketing materials and keeping current with issues and trends in the library profession. Must be fluent in Spanish. Please see the Job Description for more details about the requirements and how to apply.

Job Opening: Librarian I/II at Santa Barbara Public Library Carpinteria Branch

The Santa Barbara Public Library is seeking an innovative Librarian who is customer service oriented, flexible, outgoing, creative, and has a passion for public libraries to lead the Carpinteria Library Branch. Professional library work may include program planning and implementation, collection development and evaluation, sophisticated reference work; public relations, and managing social media; and conducting training for library users in a modern information environment; supervision and evaluation of staff and volunteers. Cultivation and maintenance of community contacts; public presentations; committee work; media mentorship; general customer assistance and instruction using electronic resources, the internet and print resources. Other professional responsibilities may include management of budget allotment; developing marketing materials and keeping current with issues and trends in the library profession. Must be fluent in Spanish. Please see the Job Description for more details about the requirements and how to apply.

Job Opening: Technical Services Librarian at Westmont College

Westmont College, an undergraduate, Christian, liberal arts college in Santa Barbara, California seeks applicants for a Technical Services Librarian.

The Technical Services Librarian is in charge of all our acquisitions and cataloging. The position is also part of our liaison librarian team which includes providing research assistance, information literacy instruction, outreach, and collection development for assigned academic and co-curricular departments. Please see the Job Description for more details about the requirements and the Westmont Human Resources page for more details on how to apply.

2017 Spring Professional Development Program & Annual Meeting

Please join us for our Spring Professional Development Program and Annual Meeting:

  • What: Makerspaces and Community Outreach Panel with Q&A
  • When: April 28th, 2017 9a-1p
  • Where: EP Foster Ventura Public Library
  • Cost: $20 for librarians and $15 for library staff and students
  • Link to register: https://tinyurl.com/h84jyty
    • Registration Deadline: 4/21/2017