Travesía is a website put together by Spain’s Ministry of Culture’s General Subcommittee on the Coordination of Libraries. Basically the sites aims at promoting collaboration among Spanish librarians, and offers them a space to work together.
Information on the site is divided into three main categories; 1) Documentation that will aid collaboration among Spanish Librarians; 2) [...]

AZ­Knowledge River (KR) is now accepting applications for KR Cohort 9. This is a program for individuals who are connected to the Native American or Latino community and who wish to become librarians and information professionals. The program will offer the recipient financial aid, work experience, cohort support, mentorship, conference assistance, and a curriculum which [...]

OCLC is receiving application for a fellowship position that will train a budding librarian in cataloging and metadata  procedures and standards. Given OCLC’s size and the amount of contact cataloging they do, I figure this must be a unique experience to work with a fascinating array of material.
For a full description of the position look [...]

Colegio de Mexico, in Mexico City is looking for a new librarian. Job duties will includes  descriptive cataloging, Dewey Decimal System classification, collection development, and reference.  The successful candidate must be fluent in both English and Spanish.
El Colegio de Mexico is one of Mexico’s leading universities. The school includes one of the best libraries in [...]

On Thursday I attended the webinar titled “Opening up Library Systems through Web Services and SOA” which was co-hosted by WebJunction and ALA Tech Source, and moderated by Marshall Breeding. The session was very interested and presented three different cases of how Integrated Library Systems can be made more accessible, regardless of whether they run [...]

I just received an email with a call for simultaneous interpreters – English/Arabic to translate at IFLA’s annual conference, which will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden, August 10 – 15, 2010. The title for the upcoming conference is “Open access to knowledge – promoting sustainable progress.”
Here is the description for the position.
As the IFLA Center [...]

This Thursday Marshall Breeding will be moderating a webinar discussing whether a integrated library system be open without being open source. He will explore the ways that an Application Programming Interface (API) can help libraries wring data and functionality out of their ILS, extend its functionality, and interact with other applications.
The webinar is hosted through [...]

If you are ready for some warm weather and beautiful beaches, consider spending a couple weeks at Bermuda College. They are currently accepting proposals for their Visiting Librarian program. It looks like you can propose a project you’d like to work on, while contributing to the development of this library. From the brief description I [...]

I just happen upon the blog “Career Q & A with the Library Career People” which specializes on professional career advice for librarians and other information professionals. The blog is maintained by a couple of librarians who respond to all types of questions related to career advancement. Some of the issues addressed include how to [...]

Yesterday I got an email announcing the beginning of La Cuña, an online forum dedicated to librarianship for and about Latin American and the Iberian Peninsula. The forum wants to gather Latinoamericanist who wish to exchange information on collection development, reference, instruction or any other issue that may come up.
I hope people from around the [...]