About LIScareer

About the Site

Priscilla K. Shontz created LIScareer in November 2001 as a loose companion site to her first book.  The
site expanded into an online collection of practical career articles written by information professionals
around the world.  Richard A. Murray became an assistant editor in September 2004.  Tiffany Eatman
Allen served as an assistant editor from  October 2009-July 2011.  Priscilla offered online consulting
services from November 2009-July 2011.

LIScareer welcomes contributed articles and suggestions. Please see the
Article Submission
Guidelines if you'd like to submit an article.

Priscilla fully funds and maintains the site.  She appreciates any
donations to help keep the site and
services running.

About the Editors

Priscilla K. Shontz:
I developed an interest in career management through my own experiences as a new
librarian, my involvement with organizations such as the ALA New Members Round Table, and my contact
with other information professionals who continue to inspire me.  I have written or edited several books
dealing with career management for librarians.  Since earning my MLS, I've worked in university,
community college, medical, school, and public libraries.
 I currently live in the Houston, Texas, area and
work as a freelance writer and editor.  For more about me, see my
resume.

Richard A. Murray:  I stumbled into librarianship almost fifteen years ago while I was working for an
airline, and I’ve been in the profession ever since.  I’m the Metadata Librarian in the Digital Collections
Program at the Duke University Libraries in Durham, North Carolina.  I help manage the process of
describing, organizing, providing access to, and letting users interact with the rare and interesting items
we’ve digitized, including images, video, audio, and text.  I’m also the Catalog Librarian for Spanish and
Portuguese Languages.  Before coming to Duke, I worked as a catalog librarian at Vanderbilt University
and a paraprofessional cataloger at my alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  I enjoy
writing about the profession; in addition to my articles here at LIScareer, my work has appeared in The
Informed Librarian, The One-Person Library, and
The Librarian's Career Guidebook, and I co-edited A
Day in the Life: Career Options in Library and Information Science with Priscilla.  For more about me,
see my
resume.
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