Supply & Demand: Matching Your Skills to the Information Needs of Today
Channel: SJSU School of Information
Date: 2017-01-20

Podcast Video Download: http://amazon.sjsu.edu/slisPod/colloquia/fa16/careerGoreFA16.mp4

Abstract:
Do you know how to assess and identify your marketable LIS skills? Many students think they do but often underestimate what they can REALLY do and how their skills add value. Hear from a skills expert and learn how to inventory your own skills and apply them to LIS jobs.

Biography:
Sally Gore, MS, MLIS, is a research evaluation analyst for the University of Massachusetts Center for Clinical and Translational Science with responsibilities in development, implementation, and analysis of evaluation related to the programs and projects of the CCTS. Most immediately prior to this, she was an embedded research librarian and informationist at the Lamar Soutter Library, UMass Medical School, serving on grant-funded clinical and community outreach research teams, providing information, data, and knowledge management services for the projects.

Gore earned her Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from Syracuse University and an MS in Exercise Physiology from Ithaca College.

She writes the blog, "A Librarian by Any Other Name" (http://librarianhats.net/) and can be found on Twitter at @mandosally.