Resources

This page is always in flux, so check back for more resources!

If you have a resource that you think belongs here, email us at sla.tsg.1@gmail.com or tweet it to us.

Careers

• SLA Career Center
  • SLA Job Board (Set up job alerts by postal code!)
• Hiring Librarians
• Open Cover Letters
• I Need a Library Job
• University job boards
  • iSchool Job Site (UofT)
  • FIMS Job Postings (Western)

Professional Development in Toronto

• SLA Toronto Events
• The University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies ($)
• Ladies Learning Code ($)

Professional Development Online

• SLA Learn (Requires SLA Membership)
• Library Juice Academy ($)
• Sarah Deringer’s Webinar Calendar
• OCLC WebJunction Webinars
• Coursera
• EdX
• Lynda ($)
  • available for free for Toronto Public Library users

Professional Development Online – Programming

• CodeAcademy
• Learn Code the Hard Way
• Code School ($)

General Blogs

• Hack Library School
• Letters to a Young Librarian

Business & Finance

• SLA Business & Finance Division
• SLA Competitive Intelligence Division
• Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS)
  • Businesss Reference LibGuide
• Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP)

Government

• SLA Government Information Division
• Government Information Network
• Library of Parliament Research Publications
• Association of Parliamentary Libraries in Canada (APLIC)
• Help! I’m an Accidental Government Librarian Webinars (US)

Health

• SLA Biomedical and Health Sciences Division
• Health Libraries Wiki
• Canada Health Libraries Association

Legal

• SLA Legal Division
• Bora Laskin Law Library Reference Services Blog
• Slaw Legal Magazine
• CanLII Connects
• Double Aspect
• Legal Sourcery
• Toronto Association of Law Libraries
  • TALL Salary Surveys
• Canada Association of Law Libraries
  • Get Involved: Mentorship & Volunteering

Independent Info Pros & Solo Librarians

• Association of Independent Information Professionals

Tech & IT

• SLA IT Division
• Usability.gov
• Law Technology Today
• School of Data
• Visualising Data

Just for Fun

• Unshelved (library web comic)
• “24 Library-Centric Sites We Love” from Mental Floss
• Librarian Wardrobe
• Screwy Decimal: Tales from an Urban Librarian