{"id":46,"date":"2007-06-14T11:08:49","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T17:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/2007\/06\/14\/librarians-are-hot\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T09:05:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T15:05:07","slug":"librarians-are-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/46","title":{"rendered":"Librarians are HOT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, at least the future of librarianship is hot. Don&#8217;t believe me? Just ask <strong>US News &amp; World Report<\/strong>. They listed <strong>Librarian<\/strong> as one of the top careers for 2007. As they point out, &#8220;it&#8217;s an underrated career&#8230; help researchers plumb the oceans of information available in books and digital records&#8230; go on shopping sprees&#8230; put on performances&#8230;&#8221; Read the full report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/biztech\/articles\/061218\/18librarian.summary.htm\">their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still don&#8217;t believe me? I&#8217;ve got more. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parade.com\/articles\/editions\/2007\/edition_04-15-2007\/WPE_lead\">Parade Magazine<\/a> listed <strong>Corporate Librarian<\/strong> as one of the hottest careers for college graduates. As a side note, I was just at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sla.org\">Special Libraries Association<\/a> conference in Denver with a bunch of corporate librarians, and let me tell you &#8211; they know how to have fun.<\/p>\n<p>As if you still needed more evidence, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiplinger.com\/columns\/onthejob\/archive\/2007\/job0402.html\">Kiplinger.com<\/a>, which publishes <strong>Kiplinger&#8217;s Personal Finance<\/strong>, included <strong>Librarian<\/strong> on their list of seven great careers for 2007. With keen observation, the author notes that &#8220;today&#8217;s librarian is a high-tech information sleuth, a master of mining cool databases (well beyond Google) to unearth the desired nuggets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Source: SLA Connections newsletter, May 2007<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, at least the future of librarianship is hot. Don&#8217;t believe me? Just ask US News &amp; World Report. They listed Librarian as one of the top careers for 2007. As they point out, &#8220;it&#8217;s an underrated career&#8230; help researchers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/46\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[277,176],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-careers","tag-librarians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}