Dunn & Wilson Scholarship 2005

At the ALIA Library & Information Technicians Conference neXt 2005 I was presented with the Dunn & Wilson Scholarship. This blog aims to present a reflection of my research progress on secondment opportunities for Australian Library Technicians in all library sectors.

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Articles on Secondments

It's been a while, but since I'm on a mini-holiday, I thought I better post something to prove that the Scholarship is still on my mind.

Here are some articles I found whilst researching secondments for my conference paper: Multi-Skill Me: Secondment Opportunities and Challenges at QUT Library - http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Uthmann,_Sharon.html

Malinski, RM 2002, 'Job rotation in an academic library: Damned if you do and damned if you don't', Library Trends, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 673-680.

Kish, K 1996, 'Multi-skilling and job rotation', Nexus, January, pp. 2-5.

Pierce, J 2001, 'Job rotation: Beyond your own branches', Library journal, vol. 125, no. 12, pp. 48-50.

Bond, P 2002, 'Changing places', Nursing management, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 12-16.

Critchley, D 2002, 'Second sight', Nursing management, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 12-13.

Burley, D 2004, 'Take a second chance', Nursing standard, vol. 19, no. 7, pp.112.

O'Reilly, N 2004, 'Stepping in to a new role', Personnel today, January 6, pp. 18-19.

Olorunsola, R 2000, 'Job rotation in academic libraries: The situation in a Nigerian university library', Library management, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 94-98.

Cope, B 1995, 'Pros and cons of secondments', Canadian lawyer, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 30-32.

Morris, B 1993, 'Making a swap: Making the most of secondments', Librarian career development, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 23-25.

Watt, E 1994, 'Work attachments and secondments at National Library of Australia for librarians from Asia and Pacific', Education for library and information services: Australia, May, pp. 22-23.

Did you note some of the articles discussing secondments in other professions??!! You may have thought that these were not relevant, but really issues and challenges can be very similar to those encountered in the LIS industry.

What I found interesting was that there is very little written about secondments in large public libraries - is this because they don't happen??!! If you work in a large public library with multiple branches and you know your library offers secondments, please contact me as I'd like to learn more about how they work in the public library sector. I'd also like to know what happens in special libraries. http://alia.org.au/~suthmann/

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