An open letter to new graduate students, from Prof Hacker

In today's Chronicle Blog, ProfHacker writes an open letter to new graduate students, giving them advice and suggestions about how to deal with the transition to graduate school. Advice includes work graduate school like a job, meet your subject specialist librarian (I want to say that they want to meet you too, but they may be a bit overwhelmed themselves at first, but they will still be happy to meet you) and network, amongst other suggestions and some advice that was crowdsourced via Twitter.

Welcome (and follow at least some of the advice in the letter).

Potential changes to the hiring of graduate students into US Federal positions?

These two articles appeared on a message from WRK4US and I felt that they may be helpful to some librarians, and librarians who help grad students research work options.

• Agencies urged to hire more graduate students non-competitively
• OPM launches tool to cut red tape in hiring

Applying to graduate school

One of my co-workers was quoted in an article about applying to graduate school. Since applying to a graduate program is a necessary step in becoming a librarian, I thought I would give a good link and a bit of Google juice to my co-worker.