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Starting Your Library Career: Essentials (an online workshop)
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Whether you're starting your first quarter in the MLIS program or finishing up your last, this workshop is for you. Join seasoned librarian and adjunct professor Kim Dority as she teaches strategies and tatics on how to build your library career platform. This workshop is designed to enable you to graduate with a solid start to your library career as well as your degree.
Kim Dority Bio
Kim Dority, MLIS, is founder and president of Dority & Associates, an information strategy and content development company. In addition, she is an adjunct faculty member for the University of Denver MLIS program, where she created and teaches a course on alternative career paths for LIS students and practitioners, and she also provides LIS career webinars, workshops, advising, and online content for multiple LIS graduate programs.
Kim is the author of dozens of articles and several books on library and information science career topics, including Rethinking Information Work: A Career Guide for Librarians and Other Information Professionals, 2d ed (2016). She also created and manages the LinkedIn "LIS Career Options" group, which now includes more than 13,000 members from 80 different countries. She received SLA's Rose L. Vormelker Award ("the Rosie") for exceptional service to LIS students and new professionals in April 2017.