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Subject: [ha-Safran]: Seeking information about
employment in Israel as a English speaking
librarian and information specialist.
TITLE: Seeking information about employment in Israel
as an English speaking librarian and information specialist.
Hello:
My name is Robert Goodman. Â I would like to
take a moment of your time to ask anyone on the
list for some career advice and guidance on how
I may find work and get hired as a librarian
and/or information systems specialist in
Israel. Whether you've worked in Israel,
considered working in Israel, or know of someone
in Israel that you think I could benefit talking
with, I'd like to hear from you.
I will be in Israel from October 4 to 24, 2006.
 During my first visit to Israel, in addition
to touring the country, I would like to arrange
some short 20 to 30 minute âfact findingâ
interviews with librarians and information
systems specialists working at public libraries,
colleges and universities, hospitals, corporate
libraries and information centers, and companies
that perform library-related or information
systems-related work in Israel and possibly with the United States.
I want to find ways that I could support myself
as an English speaking American with limited
Hebrew fluency were I to be a potential new
student studying in Israel for the short term
(3, 6, or 12 months), or perhaps the long term
as a new âolehâ (new citizen) to Israel.
The areas of work that interest me include, but are not limited to:
1. Â Â Â Â Library science, knowledge
management, electronic and print document
management, archiving, records management, and medical informatics.
2. Â Â Â Â Any kind of other technically
related information systems work like database
management or Web design (areas that I would like to increase my skills).
I presently work for the National Library of
Medicine (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/), under the
National Institutes of Health
(http://www.nih.gov) as a medical
librarian. My primary duties include
cataloging books and other bibliographic
materials used by medical professionals. My
degrees are from Drexel University (1998). I
also hold a certificate in Judaica librarianship
(1998) with two and a half years experience as a
library assistant at Gratz College
(<http://www.gratz.edu/>http://www.gratz.edu/).
I have previous experience with electronic
document management and workflow systems,
records management, Windows NT, e-mail, and SQL
systems administration, and some limited
networking and database design experience.
Were work as a librarian or information systems
specialist immediately unavailable to me as a
non-fluent Hebrew speaker, I would need to
consider other areas of work to support myself
and find ways to enter the library and
information systems fields as soon as
possible. Alternative suggestions from the list would be very welcome.
Thank you for your assistance. Â I appreciate
whatever help you can offer and I look forward
to your response. Â My contact information follows.
Warm regards,
Rob Goodman.
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Robert E. Goodman
8101 Eastern Avenue - Apt. A108
Silver Spring, MD 20910
E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
C: 301-356-5825 (LUCK)
H: 301-585-5825 (LUCK)
W: 301-435-7058
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