Faculty of Information - University of Toronto

Welcome to our FIS JobSite, the online placement service provided by the Faculty of Information Studies. Our service lists vacancies for information professionals in the following areas: library and information science, museum studies, archival studies, records management and information systems.

To view our current listing visit: JOB LISTING

Employers are welcome to post relevant vacancies to our FIS JobSite free of charge. Please be sure to carefully read our introductory statements above to determine if the position you wish to post is relevant. Note that all postings are subject to approval before they appear on the site. To submit your job now, use our online form: POST JOB

Other Useful Sites

Student Jobs

• University of Toronto Career Centre provides career education and employment services to all U of T students and recent graduates across three campuses.


• The Federal Student Work Experience Program offers full-time summer employment in a number of different government departments.

International Development Research Centre has launched its Student Employment Program

• The Ontario Internship Program offers internships for recent graduates in seven focus areas, including Information and Information Technology. For eligibility requirements and application information, visit the Ontario Internship Program's website.
• Young Canada Works offers Canadian students and recent graduates under the age of 30 jobs and internships in several areas, including heritage institutions.

Information Studies Specific Sites:

• The Canadian Library Association has an excellent list of jobs available across Canada and beyond.

• The Partnership's Job Board is hosted by the British Columbia Library Association on behalf of Canada's network of provincial and territorial library associations.

• The Special Libraries Association-Toronto Chapter maintains a Career Development web page that lists Canadian and International jobsites, sources for continuing education programs, compensation resources and resume and interview resources.

• The University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, maintains a site called Library and Information Science Employment Resources.

• The Foothills Library Association in Calgary lists vacancies for the prairie provinces and western Canada.

• The Manitoba Library Association lists jobs within that province.

• ARMA Toronto posts jobs in the Records Management field in the Toronto Area.

• The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a not-for-profit membership organization comprising the leading research libraries in North America. They offer job listings as well as a Graduate Student Resumé Database. The MLS Graduate Student Resumé Database allows graduate students to post their resumé within 6 months of graduating from an MLS program, or within 6 months of completing a post-MLS residency or fellows program.

• JobLIST is a service of American Libraries and C&RL News that offers a comprehensive listing of employment opportunities in Library & Information Science and Technology within the United States and Canada.

• LibGig provides job and career information for information professionals. It goes beyond simply listing current job ads by providing information about education and professional development.

• Global Jobs for a Global Profession links LIS job seekers with international and local opportunities.

• The Medical Library Association (MLA) offers an excellent site about medical librarianship career resources.

• The Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), a multi-type consortium, created the METRO Magnet to assist members in recruiting staff. It includes a job bank as well as a variety of information about living, working, and relocating to the city of New York and surrounding area.

• The American Theological Library Association (ATLA)offers a job openings page. ATLA is a professional association of more than 800 individual, institutional, and affiliate members (including some from Canada) providing programs, products, and services in support of theological and religious studies libraries and librarians. ATLA's ecumenical membership represents many religious traditions and denominations.

• Library Postings on the Internet compiled by by Sarah L. Nesbeitt, Booth Library, Eastern Illinois University, links to over 250 library employment sites.
  Includes a page of Canadian job sites and listerservs.

• University of Illinois' Graduate School of Library and Information Science offers a list of sites that have collections of LIS job postings (mostly in the United States).

• ALA Guide to Employment Sources in the Library and Information Professions. An excellent guide to American resources.

• LibJobs.com offers lists of US jobs for librarians while NetJobs.com a more general job site offers lists of both US and Canadian jobs for IT professionals.

• MyLibraryService.org, brought to you by SEFLIN (Southeast Florida Library Information Network, Inc.), provides job postings for the Southeast Florida Region

• Lisjobnet is the online version of Library and Information Appointments, the official recruitment publication of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. The site contains library and information job advertisements from the United Kingdom, as well as advice and information on library careers, qualifications and professional issues.

• LIBJOBS -Library and Information Science jobs mailing list. A mailing list for librarians and information professionals seeking employment. Subscribers receive only job postings.

• LIANZA - Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa Employment listings

Museum Employment Sites

• The Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums features jobs in living history and outdoor museums. Users must be members in order to view job listings.


• Art Job Online has information, including job postings, for those interested in working in the arts. Registration is required to view job ads.


• The American Association of Museums' job site lists positions in all areas of museum work. Users can browse the listings by state or category, or can view all of the jobs available. Primarily US jobs.


• Charity Village lists Canadian nonprofit. It can be searched by keyword, job category, position type, organization focus, and location.
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• Cultural Careers Council Ontario's job board posts ads for jobs, volunteer positions, and internships in the cultural sector.


• Culture Works, from the Cultural Human Resources Council, is a good resource for Canadian jobs in the cultural sector.


• Cultural Management on the Web, maintained by the University of Waterloo, has links to Canadian, American, and international cultural resources. These resources are not job boards, but many may contain job boards as part of their site.
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• Global Museum lists museum jobs in the United States.


• Museum Employment Resource Center lists ads for jobs found mostly in the United States.


• MuseumJobs.com shows jobs listings primarily in the UK and the US.


• Museum Resource Board lists jobs by state and by category. Users can also search jobs by specific criteria.


• National Association for Museum Exhibition displays job listings for exhibit preparators and curators.


• Opportunity Knocks is not exclusively devoted to museum jobs; however, users can search for museum jobs using the keyword search function.


• PreserveNet lists positions primarily in the preservation, history, and archaeology fields. However, there are sometimes postings for jobs in museums.


• New York Foundation for the Arts lists museum jobs primarily, but not exclusively, in the state of New York.


• The Smithsonian Institution's Career Center displays job openings at the Smithsonian.

General Sites

• Academic Careers Online includes teaching and administrative jobs ranging from Pre-Kindergarten through colleges and universities. The search page includes categories for Library sciences and Computer Science/Information Technology.

• Association of Commonwealth Universities vacancies page allows visitors to search for jobs under the headings of Librarian & Information Servies, and Technical & IT.

• Eluta is a search engine that specializes in just one thing: finding new job announcements at employers across Canada. Eluta's goal is to create a searchable database of every new job opportunity in the nation.

• National Research Council Canada / Consiel national de recherches Canada offers employment opportunities in a wide range of fields including the information field.

• WorkinfoNet is sponsered by Human Resources Development Canada