| Career Transitions – Self-help Service for Job Seekers
Thanks to an LSTA grant, California's public libraries have received an 18-month subscription to Career Transitions from May 28, 2010 through November 28, 2010.
As Search goes to press, Gale is offering training webinars on these dates:
- Monday, May 24, 2010 - 11:00am - 11:30am - Overview - PLP members only
- Monday, May 24, 2010 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm - Overview - PLP members only
- Wednesday, June 1, 2010 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm - Training - All U.S. libraries
Go to the calendar on the Pacific Library Partnership (PLP) website for instructions and the link to the time slot you want, register if required, and test your computer's capability according to the instructions.
If your patrons use the form-generation questionnaires in TurboTax, they will like Career Transitions. One can take interest and aptitude assessments and build resumes and cover letters, all of which can be saved. Users can learn about the types of employers and “try on” jobs. If you have a library card for the San Francisco Public Library, you can try it.
- Career Transitions product page - Career Transitions Fact Sheet 
- Career Transitions Widget - 
It is critical that Gale sends the access letter to the correct person. If your library has made changes, please contact Mary Beth Train - train AT plsinfo.org - or Patti Brown-Finie - Patricia.BrownFinie AT cengage.com.
2010 Election Links
The Elections page on the System Reference Center site has been updated with links about campaign spending and truthfulness of candidates' statements.
Facebook and Web Privacy Links
In case you missed it, Facebook has added features which make more of your information public and passes much of it onto third-party web-sites. Here are some articles that you might like to include in webliographies or use in programming:
- Price of Facebook Privacy? Start Clicking, by Nick Bilton
- New York Times May 12, 2010
- Time to Audit Your Facebook Privacy Settings, Here's How, by Gina Trapani
- Fast Company April 23, 2010
- 7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook, by Consumer Reports Magazine
- May 12, 2010
To learn more about privacy, why it's important, and how to protect it and to test a web site, here are two services, both recent grant recipients from the Rose Foundation.
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouse - Fact sheets, games, alerts and more about the many types of privacy and identity theft.
- WhatApp.org - Web forum from Stanford where users can review and compare the privacy, security and openness of Internet and mobile applications.
Access to eBooks and Audio eBooks
Are you or your patrons confused about which device can play which digital book? Philip Chiu of Menlo Park has updated a PowerPoint slide once made by Steve Sloan of Sunnyvale that answers all these questions in a convenient matrix for the libraries in the Peninsula Library System. The slide is also on the home page of the SRC site, to make it easier for you to download and modify for your library. Matrix 
Summer Reading in June, July and August for All Ages
If you haven't already started a reading list for your library, or if you want a few more ideas, here are some suggestions:
Register your program presenters on Big Box Program or paste the link in your confirming emails to them. Here are some activity and program sites.
Libraries 411
Counting Opinions has published a free directory and real-time, on-demand, library mapping and locator system. Libraries411.com provides custom online Google or Yahoo! maps to specific libraries and library systems. This service allows users to easily search for libraries in their region. Initially, the service searches for the patron's nearest public library by the user’s IP address, but patron's can also search by library name or zip code. The map also provides markers with library contact information, and links to the library’s website.
- Libraries411.com -
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Travel Tips and Links
If your library subscribes to a database which has the March 21, 2010 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle, consider using this article for a travel webliography or note in your library's newsletter. It contains a wealth of useful tips and websites for air travel in the U.S. or abroad. "Overseas on the run: Last minute travel tips" or "Surviving Last Minute Trips Overseas," by Eliza Hussman. San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 2010: M1
Califa Vendor Faire - Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Santa Clara University Free 8:30am – 3:30pm
Bookmark the fair website, which already contains directions, a link to a discounted hotel, and some vendors.
InfoExplore Clip Blog's Recent Clips
The System Reference Center's InfoExplore Clip Blog also contains links to a story about Internet Archive's 1 million books for blind and print-impaired readers, trends in videos in the library, Memorial Day with photos and more.
Send us a Second Level reference request, if your library does not have a reference research service of its own, or if you do not have the time, expertise or resources to answer any of your patrons' questions. See a sample of our questions and more resources on Twitter.
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Volume 30 - Number 8
Search was published bi-monthly in January, March, May, July, September, and November, from March 2008 to January 2010. Search then resumed its monthly schedule.
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