One of the main clearing houses for jobs of the sort you are likely to be
advertising is that at www.jobs.ac.uk . It has a whole section on
librarianship, and having just looked, it seems that there are plenty of
librarians' jobs advertsied there at the moment. It's certainly widely used by
the academic community to advertise all sorts of posts.
Giles Darkes
Oxford Brookes University
Tony Campbell wrote:
> Can I ask lismaps for advice, please?
>
> The British Library Map Library will be advertising a job vacany early
> in the New Year. This will, of course, be posted to lismaps, as well
> as being advertised in the Guardian and LA Record. [If you might be
> interested, please wait patiently! I fear I cannot post the details
> at this stage.]
>
> My query relates to Web advertising. Has anybody any useful
> experience to share, either from the applicant's end or that of the
> recruiting institution?
>
> My brief surfing of the Web has thrown up the three following sites
> that seem most relevant for librarianship. None is specifically
> concerned with maps, which is hardly surprising given the small size
> of our profession. Had our forthcoming post been a GIS one, there are
> numerous sites, which can be found via <www.gislinx.com/Jobs/>. As
> might be expected, most are in the US.
>
> Considering, then, just UK, non-GIS posts, these are the three of
> which I am aware, and to one or more of which we shall probably also
> post our job vacancy:-
>
> 1. http://www.la-rvs.org.uk/
>
> 'Library and Information Appointments is the official recruitment
> publication of The Library Association...The printed version is only
> available to members, but non-members can access the electronic
> version, LA JobNet, free of charge'.
>
> 2. http://www.vacancies.ac.uk/jobs/hesa_p.html
>
> NISS vacancies in librarianship and information sciences, which is
> free for both parties. [There were three librarianship jobs when I
> looked today]
>
> 3. http://bubl.ac.uk/news/
>
> The BUBL News site had 11 posts under 'Library and information science
> job vacancies' today.
>
>
> Can anyone:-
>
> * add relevant sites to those three
>
> * share experience of using any of them (a) to find a job (b) to fill
> a job
>
> * who was looking for a job, tell us if they found any of the sites
> had an effective notification scheme - to avoid the need to go back to
> the site regularly?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tony
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> Please see, bookmark and PROVIDE LINKS to:-
>
> 1. The British Library Map Library homepage
> http://www.bl.uk/collections/maps
>
> 2. Map History / History of Cartography: THE Gateway to the Subject
> http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/maps/
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