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TwitterJobSearch

The wonderful world of the web has many job search engines cluttered about: indeed.com, careerbuilder.com, LinkUp, monster.com, juju, CareerJet, JobCentral, mployd, SimplyHired, recruit.net, etc… These sites search for job listings on the interwebs.

But not all job listings can be found on websites or via classified ads… Many jobs are found via networking as well as via emerging social media tools… This includes twitter, of course…

So yes… There is a search engine that scours twitter tweets for job announcements: TwitterJobSearch. I gave it a lil’ go by searching for “librarian” and it produced over 106 results. I perused the results and they were all very relevant – no random non-library job announcements popped up.

The folks from TwitterJobSearch describe their product as a search engine that uses semantic tools to look at what has been tweeted – context. TwitterJobSearch allows you to sort results by date or relevance. You can create RSS feeds, and refine your results by salary, country, job title (i.e., librarian, assistant, teacher), when it was tweeted, skills, and job type (i.e., full time, permanent, etc.).

Overall, it’s a pretty simple job search engine with a lil’ bit o’ punch. I definitely like what it has to offer and see it as an innovative way to cover ground in the job search.

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International Twittering Libraries

updated 5/28/2010

I have received quite a few comments from folks around the globe (which has been really GREAT, by the way!) Instead of incorporating them into the long, long list of Twittering Libraries, I decided to keep that list as U.S. only, for organizational sake. Hence below is a growing list of International Twittering Libraries.

If you have any recommendations and/or would like your library to be added to this list, please contact me. I’d love to hear from you!

• ACT Public Library & Heritage Library (Canberra, Australia)
• Adelaide City Library (Adelaide, Australia)
  
• Alexandrina Library (Australia)
• Biblioteca AGS (Aguascalientes, México)
• Biblioteca Francisco Xavier Clavigero (Mexico City, Mexico)
• Bibliotheque Brossar (Brossard, Québec, Canada)
• Bibliothèques de MTL (Montréal, Canada)
  
• Bibliothèque du Collège François-Xavier-Garneau (Québec,Canada)
• Bibliothèque Toulous (France)
• Bibliothèque_UGB (Saint-Louis, Senegal)
• Birkbeck Library (Bloomsbury, London, UK)
• Bracebridge Public Library (Ontario, Canada)
• Bradford Libraries (Bradford, UK)
• British Library – Americas Collection (St Pancras, London, England)
• British Library – Business & IP Centre (London, England)
• British Library (London, England)
• Burnside Library (Australia)
• Canterbury Libraries (Canterbury, UK)
• Cambridge University Library (UK)
• Central Hawke’s Bay District Libraries (New Zealand)
• Central Library, Regent Circus (Swindon, Wiltshire, UK)
  
• Cheam Library (Cheam, Surrey)
• Deakin University Library (Australia)
• Delft University of Technology (Delft, Netherlands)
• De Montfort University Library (Leicester, England)
• Dixie Grammar School (Market Bosworth, UK)
• Dublin Business School Library (Dublin, Ireland)
• Dunedin Public Libraries (New Zealand)
• Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Public Library (Dublin, Ireland)
• Dungannon Library (Ireland)
• Durham University Library (Durham/Stockton-on-Tees, UK)
• Edinburgh City Libraries (Edinburg, Scotland)
  
• Edmonton Public Library (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
• Feminist Library (London, England, UK)
• Fleetwood Libraries (Lancashire, UK)
• Greater Victoria Public Library (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)
• Guille-Allès Library (Guernsey, England, UK)
• Idea Store (England)
• Imperial College Science Library (London, England)
• International Labour Organization (Switzerland)
• International Library of New Zealand
• Fleetwood Library (Lancashire, UK)
• Flinders University (Australia)
• Grey Lynn Library (Auckland, New Zealand)
• Hastings District Libraries (Sunny Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand)
• Haringey Librares (London Borough of Haringey, UK)
• High Country Library (Wangaratta, Northeast Victoria, Canada)
  
• International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics Library (Lund, Sweden)
  
• Joe Fortes Library (Vancouver, Canada)
• John Rylands University Library (Manchester, England, UK)
• Kapiti Libraries (Kapiti Coast, New Zealand)
• Kingston Frontenac Public Library (Ontario, Canada)
• Lancashire Libraries (Lancashire, England)
  
• Leeds Libraries (Leeds, UK)
• Leicestershire Libraries (UK)
  
• Manukau Libraries (Manukau, New Zealand)
• McGill University Library (Montreal, Canada)
• McMaster University (Canada)
• Medicine Hat Public Library (Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada)
• Metropolitan University Leeds Met Library (UK)
• Milton Keynes Library (Milton Keynes, UK)
• Mt. Barker Library (Australia)
• Mt. Gambier Library (Mt. Gambier, South Australia)
• National Library of Australia
• National Library of New Zealand
• Newcastle University, UK arts and humanities liaison team
• Newcastle University Library & Info Science, Agriculture & Engineering team
• Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
• Open University Library, Milton Keyens (UK)
• Pelham Library (Ontario, Canada)
• Plymouth Libraries (UK)
• Red Deer Public Library (Alberta, Canada)
• Rodney Libraries (New Zealand)
• St. John’s Nottingham Library (UK)
• Scottish Poetry Library (Edinburgh, Scotland)
• Sheffield Libraries
• Smethwick Library (Sandwell, UK)
• Sprowston Library (Norwich, England)
• State Library of Queensland (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)
• State Library of South Australia
• State Library of Western Australia
• Stirling Libraries (Scotland)
• Streaky Bay Library (Streaky Bay, Australia)
• Stockton Libraries (Stockton-on-Tees)
• Sutton Mobile Library (Sutton, Surrey, UK)
  
• Surrey Libraries (Surrey, UK)
  
• Tararua District Libraries (New Zealand)
  
• The Itinerant Poetry Library (traveling the world–”anywhere I can get to”)
• Toronto Public LIbrary (Toronto, Canada)
• Townsville Library (Townsville, Australia)
• Universidad de A Coruña Biblioteca de Caminos (A Coruña, Spain)
• Universiti Brunei Darussalam Digital Library (Brunei)
• University College of Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)
• University College London Science Library
• University of Glamorgan (Wales, UK)
• University of Lethbridge Library (Alberta, Canada)
• University of Liverpool Library (Liverpool, UK)
  
• University of London Birkbeck Library (UK)
• University of London Goldsmiths Library (UK)
• Universtities at Medway Drill Hall Library (UK)
• University of Notre Dame (London, UK)
• University of Otago Library (Dunedin, New Zealand)
  
• University of Oxford Bodleian Law Library (UK)
• University of Portsmouth Library (UK)
• University of  Stavanger (Stavanger, Norway)
• University of Sussex (Falmer, East Sussex, UK)
• University Technology of Syndey (Syndey, Australia)
• University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica)
• University of Wolverhampton Librarians (West Midlands, England)
• Victor Harbor Public Library (Victor Harbor, South Australia)
• Vienna University Library (Austria)
• Warwick University Library (Warwick, Coventry, UK)
• Wellcome Library (London, England, UK)
• Wellington City Libraries (New Zealand)
• West D’tonshire Libraries (Dunbartonshire, Scotland)
• Westminister Library (Central London, UK)
• Whitburn Library (Whitburn, West Lothian)
• Whitby Public Library (Whitby, Ontario, Canada)
• Yale College Bersham Road LRC (Wrexham, Wales, UK)
• Yarra Plenty Regional Library (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) – supporting reading in public libraries
• Yarra Plenty Regional Library (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) – local and family history

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Twitoria: find out who hasn't tweeted in awhile

If you’re looking for a quick way to find out which of your friends hasn’t tweeted in awhile, give Twitoria a try.

In my exuberance to learn as much as possible (as a rookie info professional would do), I have been following a lot of folks, especially libraries. I have been wanting to cut my twitter follower numbers down, so I gave Twitoria a try. I found over 35 folks that haven’t tweeted in over a month. I think I’ll be giving a few of those folks the boot…

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Evan Williams discusses the unforeseen uses of Twitter at TED 2009

Evan Williams, co-creator of Twitter, talks about the unforeseen uses of Twitter at TED 2009.

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Jon Stewart explains Twitter

Being a Twitter user myself, I can appreciate Jon Stewart discussing Twitter on The Daily Show. It’s kinda funny.

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