Adventures in International Librarianship: Living and Working Outside the United States

As a librarian, I have often entertained the idea of working for an academic library overseas.  Today, I had an opportunity to attend a free online webinar through http://www.librariesthriving.org/workshops/archives specifically on librarians working outside the United States and Canada.  Libraries Thriving has free online seminars on a varity of library topics.  Additionally, they offer professional development certificates upon the completion of each webinar!


Libraries Thriving is online an collaborative community of librarians, faculty, and researchers sharing ideas and working together on this site to further common goals of increasing innovative use of e-resources.

Goals of Libraries Thriving:

• Help libraries realize their possibility for impact and to address challenges
• Develop case studies of success that can be replicated
• Resolve key technical issues that limit progress

Problems that Libraries Thriving addresses:

• Increase effective use of e-resources
• Increase visibility and discoverability of libraries on the open web
• Help alleviate users’ information overload
• Create seamless access between resources
• Promote information and digital literacy

Citation: "About This Community." About This Community. N.p., 06 Nov. 2012. Web. 06 Nov. 2012 http://www.librariesthriving.org/