Pharmaceutical and Health Technology Division
Employment Relations Committee

Recruiter Bio:

SARAH WARNER, MLIS
Cofounder and Director of Operations

Sarah earned her MLIS from Pratt Institute. She managed all corporate library operations and its staffing for Wang Laboratories, a fast-paced, international computer company; was Manager of Content Licensing for Amulet, an internet start-up, where she worked with librarians and information professionals struggling to use the latest internet technologies. She was Serials Librarian at the Engineering Societies Library. Sarah was elected member of the Board of Trustees of Chelmsford Public Library in Massachusetts and member of the search committee for the selection of the library's new Director. She is an active member and leader of Special Libraries Association and the Archons of Colophons.

Sarah Warner's understanding of the needs and expectations of information professionals, coupled with her management experience, is invaluable in assessing the candidate's qualifications to meet the client's staffing requirements.

KEITH GURTZWEILER

Keith Gurtzweiler, Recruiter and Staffing Manager in Beverly Hills, has four years of recruiting experience in library and information science, law, and administrative/office support. He studied at Sorbonne in Paris, received his Bachelor's from DePaul University and his Master's in the social sciences from New York University. He speaks fluent French and dabbles in Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Cherokee. He seeks to create new and strengthen existing relationships with LIS clients and professionals nationwide.

Services at Spring Meeting:

Candidates, whether experienced professionals, new entrants to the library field, or career changers, will find in Sarah an outstanding mentor. She can advise on unfolding developments in the field, educational requirements, resume preparation, professional development, networking, and other topics that can enhance a job search.

Clients may also consult her on preparing job descriptions that capture the performance expectations of a position and identify the qualities that will serve as long-term assets for their organization.

• Resume formatting
• How to get a resume noticed in a sea of resumes
• How to write a resume for HR personnel
• How to tailor a resume for a specific position
• How to write an effective general resume
• Candidacy presentation tips

Company Info:

WONTAWK
Superior Recruitment for Librarians and
Other Information Professionals
www.wontawk.com

Commitment, confidentiality, and 25 years of expert service has made Wontawk the leading provider of information specialists, library recruitment, and consulting services, coast to coast. Wontawk provides direct hire and temporary staffing placement in corporate information centers, libraries, research organizations, health and pharmaceutical, advertising and marketing, foundations and associations, financial and other institutions. Among the candidates placed by Wontawk are Research Analysts, Internet and Online Database Searchers, Competitive Intelligence, Knowledge Managers, Reference Librarians, Metadata Librarians and other information professionals.

Under the leadership of Sarah Warner, MLIS, Wontawk Co-founder and Director of Operations, Wontawk's outstanding reputation, built as Gossage Regan Associates over two decades ago, continues to grow.

Sarah Warner joined Wontawk in 1998, bringing with her over twenty years of experience in entrepreneurial, corporate, and non-profit settings, developing and providing a full spectrum of library services, including management, staff recruiting, and research.

LIBRARY ASSOCIATES is a national specialty-staffing firm owned and managed by librarians that was founded in 1983. Currently, Library Associates (LA) has three offices and two satellite locations: Los Angeles, California (our Corporate Headquarters); Rockville, Maryland (our East Coast Headquarters); Denver, Colorado; and satellite operations in San Francisco, California.  We employ approx. 178 librarians, library technicians, researchers, archivists, and catalogers (among others) who are resident at client sites throughout the United States – including Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington D.C., and Washington state. Approximately 55% of our employees are professional librarians holding an accredited Masters of Library Science degree. 

In December 2001, Library Associates acquired a small but highly regarded privately held company, Medical Library Consultants.  In completing the acquisition, MLC’s founder, Betsey Beamish, a well-established medical librarian, and all of her experienced staff agreed to stay with the company, now a division of Library Associates. 

Candidates : We specialize in placing information professionals from all the fields of Information Science including knowledge manage­ment, systems administration, reference and research, indexing and abstracting, competitive/business intelligence, market re­search, technical services, project managers, and archives and records specialists in medical, pharmaceutical, hospital, corporate, and legal libraries.

Client base : We have an extensive client base that includes corporations, hospitals and medical centers, law firms, academic and public libraries, government agencies and professional associations, publishers/vendors, libraries, archives, and other organizations.

Services

• Our consulting services include: operational and strategic analysis and plans, user-needs interviews, needs assessments, benchmarking and best practices studies, as well as staffing audits and evaluations.
• Through our staffing services we provide qualified staff for long or short-term projects and assignments. The type of staff we provide include librarians, medical writers, researchers, trainers, and library technicians.
• Our recruiting services offer organizations (direct) hire placement and recruiting for librarians, library directors, record managers and other, similar positions.
• We have also seen a growing demand for our virtual reference services - creating, enhancing or improving virtual reference services, creating a centralized library service to serve central and/or remote locations.

In our Los Angeles and Maryland offices, our technical services staff handle all sorts of projects – database clean up, retrospective conversions, digital library creation, and cataloging (a/v materials, electronic resources, foreign languages, etc.)