NMRT (New Members Round Table)

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The mission of the New Members Round Table (NMRT) is to help those who have been association members less than ten years become actively involved in the association and the profession.

Learn more about NMRT on the ALA website.

  • 1.  Your input re: career options book?

    Posted Jul 09, 2023 03:48 PM

    Hello!  I was NMRT president way back in 2000 and can't rave enough about how wonderful NMRT is for meeting great people, gaining invaluable experience, and helping others.  I hope you all are enjoying your NMRT and ALA experience as much as I did! 

    I would like to ask your input, please.  I'm talking with a publisher about editing a book that would compile brief first-hand accounts of various types of jobs one might get with an LIS degree (more or less updating 2007's A Day in the Life: Career Options in LIS).  I would very much like to hear from you (and anyone else you'd like to share this with): 

    (1) Do you feel an updated print book like this would be worthwhile?  Do you feel this is already covered online, in LIS courses, or elsewhere?  

    (2) Would you (or your friends or colleages) be interested in being considered as a contributor?  If so, please email your name, email, job title, and a few sentences summarizing your job duties and any other comments about your interest to Priscilla Shontz, priscilla.shontz.lis@gmail.com.  

    (3) If you know someone who might be an interesting contributor (i.e. know someone who does something cool and out of the ordinary?), please pass this along to them or email me their contact info!  

    Thank you all!  

    Priscilla Shontz

    priscilla.shontz.lis@gmail.com 



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    Priscilla Shontz
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    SpellWell Montessori
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  • 2.  RE: Your input re: career options book?

    Posted Aug 16, 2023 08:32 PM
    Edited by Rosanna Aponte Aug 16, 2023 08:34 PM

    I definitely feel an updated print book such as this one would be worthwhile. I just completed over the summer a course in Special Libraries and Information Centers at University of Missouri. My classmates and I found the class very helpful in learning about different special libraries and information centers. It would be great to have an updated resource like this book to inform MLIS students and recent grads of areas not as readily apparent where the MLIS can be applied to.

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    Rosanna Aponte
    Student
    University of Missouri - Columbia School of Info Science & Learning Tech
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  • 3.  RE: Your input re: career options book?

    Posted Aug 21, 2023 10:12 AM

    I agree with Rosanna! (I'm also a Mizzou MLIS student!)



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    Ashley Granger
    Sr. Library Information Specialist
    University of Missouri - Columbia School of Inf Science & Learning Tech
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