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[Julie Quetel]

As a first year LIS graduate student, lurking has given up 
some good source websites as I take my first reference 
class at the University of Illinois and an idea what kind of 
experience libraries are looking for to hire. My udergraduate 
degree is in biology and I'm looking toward something science 
related. A part time job at a library seems like a very good 
idea, although my impression is that a job as a para in an 
academic library would be a hard thing to come by given the 
pool of slave labor work study students available to them. 
Suggestions about ways to gain experience?

Also, what's   various ways people strategy keep current? I'm 
muddling my way through information overwhelm as a newbie. I'm 
not sure what an efficient useful way to keep organize 
articles, lecture notes, papers written, concepts from books 
read so that they can later be referenced. My impression is 
that it's something like keeping a personal bibliography. Not 
really sure how to proceed with that one.

Julie