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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
Reference herein to any specific commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.
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