Opportunities for trainees

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Watkins, H. (1998), "Opportunities for trainees", Librarian Career Development, Vol. 6 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/lcd.1998.10206dab.007

Opportunities for trainees

Opportunities for trainees

I would advise anyone who holds a library trainee post, or who is looking for one, to take alook at a new web site called OWL ­ the Oxford web site for library trainees. At the moment, this is an experimental site, but it comes across as fresh and clearly-presented, with well-selected links to other sites including professional associations, job vacancy pages, Library Schools, Electronic Library projects, search engines and more "lifestyle"-based links to movie and music databases. I particularly took to the Lipstick Librarian, a US site for those with "the ability to look fabulous while poking around a dot-matrix printer with a bent paper-clip."

There is a clear regional focus, with links to sites about Oxford and the University, as it is the University which provides the employment for most of the Oxford trainees ­ but it should be first port of call for any potential Library professional, or those at the early stages of their career. I could not fault it. Look at: http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/owl/index.html

Views can be-mailed to the project leader Chris Stuart at St Hugh's College, either on: chris.stuart@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk or C.J.Stuart-96@student.lboro.ac.uk