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So What is it Like to be a Nontraditional Federal Librarian . . . Carol E. Jacobson Acting Director, Information Science and Technology Defense Technical Information Center April 4, 2011 Approved for Public Release U.S. Government Work (17 USC § 105) Not copyrighted in the U.S.

Transcript of Florida State University Careers event 04042011

So What is it Like to be a Nontraditional Federal Librarian . . .

Carol E. JacobsonActing Director, Information Science and Technology

Defense Technical Information Center

April 4, 2011

Approved for Public Release U.S. Government Work (17 USC § 105) Not copyrighted in the U.S.

Agenda

• What is the Defense Technical Information Center?

• What is it like to have a non-traditional career as a Federal Librarian?

• What was the Student Paper Competition?

Andrew T. McNamara

The Defense Technical Information Center

HEADQUARTERS COMPLEXHome of

Information for the Defense Community

What is the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)?

• National Library/Information Center for the Department of Defense (DoD)

• DTIC’s Mission: To provide essential, technical research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) information rapidly accurately and reliably

• Technical reports and research summaries• DTIC Online – Public; DTIC Online – Access

Controlled; DoDTechipedia; Aristotle; Defense Solutions

My Beginning Credentials

• BA in psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• MLS from the University of Maryland, College Park

• Paid and volunteer work at the Undergraduate Library at the University of Maryland

My First Professional Job

• Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Silver Spring, MD

• Librarian - Physical Science and Engineering – GS-1410-07– Temporary appointment – became permanent– Worked in technical services and reference– Learned importance of quality of work and

networking

My First Professional Job (cont)

– Joined SLA– Continued Education – earned MPA

• Administrative Librarian – GS-1410-12

Defense Technical Information Center

• Directorate of Information Science and Technology

• Administrative Librarian – GS-1410-12• Non-traditional job

– Project management responsibilities– Database development– Management of DTIC’s Intern Program

• Directorate of User Services• Special Assistant to the Administrator

Defense Technical Information Center (cont)

• Directorate of Information Science and Technology – Technical Information Specialist – GS-1412-14– Mobile Technology– Semantic Search– Accessing limited respositories through

Web Services – Automated Metadata Extraction– Large Datasets– Collaborative Searching

Defense Technical Information Center (cont)

• Thoughout my career at DTIC I have . . .– Continued to belong to SLA and assumed

leadership roles at the Chapter and Division levels

– Continued Education – earned MBA (with an area of concentration in Information Systems Management)

– Joined ALA– Continued to build and use my network

• What was it?• Who could submit papers?• What were the benefits to the

submitters?• How can participation be increased?

Point of Contact

Ms. Carol JacobsonActing Director

Information Science and Technology(703) 767-9167

[email protected]

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