About LIScareer
About the Site
Priscilla K. Shontz created LIScareer in November 2001 as a loose companion site to her first book. The
site expanded into an online collection of practical career articles written by information professionals
around the world. Richard A. Murray became an Assistant Editor in September 2004 and Tiffany Eatman
Allen joined the staff as an Assistant Editor in October 2009. Priscilla relaunched the site, with a
redesigned format and an added consulting service, in November 2009.
LIScareer welcomes contributed articles and suggestions. Please see the Article Submission
Guidelines if you'd like to submit an article.
Priscilla fully funds and maintains the site. We appreciate any donations to help keep the site and
services running.
About the Editors
Priscilla K. Shontz: I developed an interest in career management through my own experiences as a new
librarian, my involvement with organizations such as the ALA New Members Round Table, and my contact
with other information professionals who continue to inspire me. I wrote Jump Start Your Career in
Library & Information Science, edited The Librarian's Career Guidebook, and co-edited A Day in the
Life: Career Options in Library and Information Science. Since earning my MLS, I've worked in
university, community college, medical, school, and public libraries. I currently live in a Houston, Texas,
suburb and work as a freelance writer, editor, and library career consultant. For more about me, see my
resume.
Richard A. Murray: I stumbled into librarianship almost fifteen years ago while I was working for an
airline, and I’ve been in the profession ever since. I’m the Metadata Librarian in the Digital Collections
Program at the Duke University Libraries in Durham, North Carolina. I help manage the process of
describing, organizing, providing access to, and letting users interact with the rare and interesting items
we’ve digitized, including images, video, audio, and text. I’m also the Catalog Librarian for Spanish and
Portuguese Languages. Before coming to Duke, I worked as a catalog librarian at Vanderbilt University
and a paraprofessional cataloger at my alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I enjoy
writing about the profession; in addition to my articles here at LIScareer, my work has appeared in The
Informed Librarian, The One-Person Library, and The Librarian's Career Guidebook, and I co-edited A
Day in the Life: Career Options in Library and Information Science with Priscilla. For more about me,
see my resume.
Tiffany Allen: I started working in libraries as an undergraduate student assistant while I was studying for
my "real career." Almost 20 years later, I'm still in libraries. I've worked briefly in a corporate library and a
non-profit foundation library, but a majority of my career has been in an academic library. I started as a
cataloger in a large academic technical services department and moved into human resources. I am
currently the Personnel Librarian for the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
. In my current position I work extensively with librarian recruitment and selection, and with library school
students employed in our library. For more about me, see my resume.
About the Site
Priscilla K. Shontz created LIScareer in November 2001 as a loose companion site to her first book. The
site expanded into an online collection of practical career articles written by information professionals
around the world. Richard A. Murray became an Assistant Editor in September 2004 and Tiffany Eatman
Allen joined the staff as an Assistant Editor in October 2009. Priscilla relaunched the site, with a
redesigned format and an added consulting service, in November 2009.
LIScareer welcomes contributed articles and suggestions. Please see the Article Submission
Guidelines if you'd like to submit an article.
Priscilla fully funds and maintains the site. We appreciate any donations to help keep the site and
services running.
About the Editors
Priscilla K. Shontz: I developed an interest in career management through my own experiences as a new
librarian, my involvement with organizations such as the ALA New Members Round Table, and my contact
with other information professionals who continue to inspire me. I wrote Jump Start Your Career in
Library & Information Science, edited The Librarian's Career Guidebook, and co-edited A Day in the
Life: Career Options in Library and Information Science. Since earning my MLS, I've worked in
university, community college, medical, school, and public libraries. I currently live in a Houston, Texas,
suburb and work as a freelance writer, editor, and library career consultant. For more about me, see my
resume.
Richard A. Murray: I stumbled into librarianship almost fifteen years ago while I was working for an
airline, and I’ve been in the profession ever since. I’m the Metadata Librarian in the Digital Collections
Program at the Duke University Libraries in Durham, North Carolina. I help manage the process of
describing, organizing, providing access to, and letting users interact with the rare and interesting items
we’ve digitized, including images, video, audio, and text. I’m also the Catalog Librarian for Spanish and
Portuguese Languages. Before coming to Duke, I worked as a catalog librarian at Vanderbilt University
and a paraprofessional cataloger at my alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I enjoy
writing about the profession; in addition to my articles here at LIScareer, my work has appeared in The
Informed Librarian, The One-Person Library, and The Librarian's Career Guidebook, and I co-edited A
Day in the Life: Career Options in Library and Information Science with Priscilla. For more about me,
see my resume.
Tiffany Allen: I started working in libraries as an undergraduate student assistant while I was studying for
my "real career." Almost 20 years later, I'm still in libraries. I've worked briefly in a corporate library and a
non-profit foundation library, but a majority of my career has been in an academic library. I started as a
cataloger in a large academic technical services department and moved into human resources. I am
currently the Personnel Librarian for the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
. In my current position I work extensively with librarian recruitment and selection, and with library school
students employed in our library. For more about me, see my resume.
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