Gorilla Librarian

I struggle sometime with british humor, but maybe we all can get a chuckle out of this one!

T-shirts Back In!

We have a new shipment of our UB ALA Get Shelved T-shirts! They are $10. Please let us know if you want one…

Congrats New officers!

Congratulations to next semester’s officers!

Treasurer – Elaine Dean
Secretary – Janee “Yellow Glasses” Dabney (haha)
V.P. – Anna Gossin
President – Jess Stokes

Reference Librarians and Google

http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/091008/brave1.html

Interesting article.

Creative Commons

An informational video regarding Creative Commons. Consider applying this to your materials, as it may be the future of copyright.

Salary and Benefits Negotiation PDW

Attention Students! UB ALA strongly encourages you to attend the Salary and Benefits Negotiation Workshop presented by UB. This will be happening Thursday November 13th from 4-5pm. It will be held in the Student Union Theater which appropriately is located in the Student Union. UB has brought in a special guest speaker for the event. 

We feel strongly that this sort of workshop will be valuable, as we have heard from alumni that employers are talking about salaries as soon as your first interview. You don’t want to be caught unawares. Also, a benefit package is where you can obtain additional funds for relocation, health and vacation pay, professional development money and much more – if you know how to work it!

Please consider attending this workshop on Thursday!

Office Politics

Here is an interesting article re: office politics and how it pertains to the library environment. 

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6606476.html