I spoke a little while back at an SLA MD Job Searching event and one of the questions I received inspired me to make a list of Keywords For Job Hunting which can be found on every single page of INALJ.com in the right sidebar. I have included the most recent list below. As library budgets shrink and traditional library positions get slashed I am hopeful that these terms will help librarians, library staff and other information professionals find non-“L” jobs that they might have otherwise missed.
This is a list of terms we use and suggest for searching for jobs in and related to library work.
- Librarian
- Library
- Information Professional
- Taxonomist
- Taxonomy
- Database
- Database Designer
- KM
- Knowledge Management
- User Interface Designer
- Community Manager
- Knowledge Architect
- Data Management Analyst
- Information Architect
- Social Media
- Social Marketer
- Intelligence Analyst
- Open Source
- Trainer
- Teacher
- Technology Trainer
- Technology Futurist
- Database Designer
- Metadata
- Knowledge Coordinator
- Indexing
- Indexer
- Digital Content Curator
- Transactional Law Researcher
- Content Strategy
- User Experience Design (UXD)
- Project Analyst
- Information Resource Officer
- Certified Records Manager
- MARC
- the name of your ILS
- Informationist
- Informatician
- Data Scientist
- Big Data
- Information Policy
- Information Privacy
- Information Recovery
- Data Curator
- DBA (Database Administration/ Administrator)
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
- Archivist
- Archives
- Program Analyst
- Competitive Intelligence
- Data Visualization
- Market Analyst
updated 6/20/13
updated from 2/11/12