NMRT Notes

Are you looking to polish your resume OR are you interested in volunteering to review your colleagues’ resumes? Whether you need some resume assistance or want to provide this support as a volunteer, NMRT’s Resume Review Service may be for you!

I want to….
Have my resume reviewed!	Serve as a resume reviewer!
Next step to have your resume reviewed: Submit your resume/CV and a specific job description (if available) as an attachment to resumereviewnmrt@gmail.com  OR Fill out this Google Form: https://forms.gle/J8bX3bfejeaEj3x47 Please note only ALA members are eligible for this service. To become a member of ALA or check your membership status, contact ALA Membership services at membership@ala.org.	Next step to become a resume reviewer: Contact the NMRT Resume Review Service at resumereviewnmrt@gmail.com to volunteer!   Please include the information listed below in the body of your email:  Name: Employer: Job Title/Position: Library Type: Area of Specialization (i.e., reference, cataloging, archives, children’s, etc.): E-mail address: We always seek to match a reviewer with someone from the same library type and specialization!

If you have any questions about becoming a reviewer or having your resume reviewed, please contact our committee at resumereviewnmrt@gmail.com.

Want to highlight an exceptional member of the New Members Round Table? Consider nominating yourself, a colleague, or student member for NMRT Member of the Month! Members of the Month will be featured in a blog post spotlight on NMRT Notes. To nominate yourself or someone else, please use our Google Form: https://forms.gle/CNq19h9XcX34BEh49

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS now until December 1st!

Professional Development Grant Award 

Would you like to attend this year’s ALA conference, but don’t have the means to do so? Apply for the NMRT Professional Development Grant award by 11:59 PM on December 1st, 2023. The award offers $3,000 to one person to offset costs and expenses to attend this year’s Annual Conference in San Diego, California on June 27-July 2, 2024. You must be a current ALA and NMRT member to apply. To join, visit the ALA website and follow the “Join ALA” link.

To apply, please visit https://tinyurl.com/professionalgrant. Applicants will be notified in February.

For questions, please contact the chair of the NMRT Awards Committee, Jennifir Huston: jhuston@sailsinc.org

Shirley Olofson Memorial Award

Would you like to attend this year’s ALA conference, but don’t have the means to do so? Apply for the Shirley Olofson Memorial award by 11:59 PM on December 1st, 2023. The award offers $1,000 to one person to offset costs and expenses to attend this year’s Annual Conference in San Diego, California on June 27-July 2, 2024. You must be a current ALA and NMRT member to apply. To join, visit the ALA website and follow the “Join ALA” link.

To apply, please visit https://tinyurl.com/shirleyolofson. Applicants will be notified in February.

For questions, please contact the chair of the NMRT Awards Committee, Jennifir Huston: jhuston@sailsinc.org

On behalf of the American Library Association’s New Members Round Table (NMRT), the Endnotes Committee is pleased to announce the latest call for papers to Endnotes: The Journal of the New Members Round Table. Please feel free to pass this call along to your faculty, staff, and students who may have an interest in publishing with us.

About Endnotes

Endnotes is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that addresses issues faced by librarians. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Endnotes accepts research and practitioner-based articles. Each edition of the journal will contain 2-3 scholarly articles written by members of NMRT, as well as website reviews and scholarly book reviews of titles relevant to new librarians. 

Endnotes’s aim is to work with new authors to produce quality scholarly articles and provide an understanding of the publication process. It welcomes submissions from LIS students, early-career professionals and researchers, and first-time writers. Endnotes encourages potential authors to consider their course research projects or affiliated institutional programs, surveys, and studies, and how they might convert these options into publishable journal articles, posters, or reviews. 

Guidelines for Submission

Articles should range from 2,000 to 6,000 words and be written by LIS students or early-career library professionals. Endnotes welcomes research papers, technical papers, conceptual papers, case studies, and literature reviews. More information on these types of articles is available in our complete submission guidelines. Authors must be members of NMRT.

Topics that might be appropriate for Endnotes include, but are not limited to: 

• Graduate student research and projects
• Early-career research and projects
• Training and mentoring
• Job searching or hiring
• Developing leadership and management skills
• Library instruction and assessment
• Developing new collections or services
• Working with specific community groups
• Committee work and development – at your library or university, regionally or nationally
• Reviews of new books or other educational materials such as websites

How to Submit

Please submit completed manuscripts to our electronic form.

Those interested in discussing an idea for an article are encouraged to contact the editors, Sarah Lerner and Emily Zerrenner, at nmrtendnotesjournal@gmail.com to determine if the proposed article fits the publication scope. 

Submission Timeline

Manuscript submissions are due no later than January 31, 2024. Initial responses to manuscript submissions are typically sent out a month after the submission deadline. If selected for peer review, reviewers are given two weeks to evaluate a submission. Typically, 2-4 weeks are given for manuscript revisions between each peer-review evaluation. The publication date for Endnotes issue 12.1 is tentatively set for June 30, 2024.

Paper ideas and manuscripts may be submitted outside of this timeline, but are not guaranteed publication in the 2024 issue. 

For more information about Endnotes, including complete submission guidelines and previous issues, please visit https://journals.ala.org/index.php/endnotes/. Please feel free to contact the Endnotes editors, Sarah Lerner and Emily Zerrenner, at nmrtendnotesjournal@gmail.com with any questions.