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Tips for library job applicants in a tight market

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Another semester of teaching at San Jose State’s SLIS program has ended. Many of my students are graduating and others are starting to think about applying for jobs so they’ll have one when they do graduate. For so many of them, the job search is going to be a struggle. It wasn’t an easy job [...]

Libraries in tough times – what about librarians?

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Yesterday I received the ALDirect (from American Libraries) Special Issue on the Tough Economy in my Inbox. It contained great information about library advocacy during tough times. What I found glaringly missing from this email was any discussion about or tips for librarians who’ve been laid off or about-to-graduate LIS students. Obviously, if we advocate [...]

Want to come work for me?

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

We are sadly losing our beloved Distance Learning Librarian to her family (but good for her!), so we are again in the position of looking for a new Distance Learning Librarian. The position reports to me and I’ve had a wonderful time mentoring our current DLL and growing in my role as a manager. I [...]

How I got started blogging

Monday, September 8th, 2008

A student in the class I’m teaching for San Jose State University asked me the following the other day: How did people first learn about your blog? Do you have a previous blog post on how it became popular? It would be an interesting read! It’s a good question and one I thought I’d post [...]

IL 2006 Wrapup

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

Wow! What an amazing conference! I can honestly say that I didn’t go to a single bad/boring/irrelevant talk and, although I was sick and sidelined on Day 3, I got more out of this conference than any I’ve been to in the past. I didn’t go to a lot of the social software talks because [...]

The 21st Century Librarian: Further Thoughts and Your Comments

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

I’m on vacation in Florida this week and have happily been away for the computer for long periods of time, so I was very surprised to find all of the comments on what I had written a few days ago on skills for the 21st century librarian. I guess it really touched a chord (it’s [...]

Promoting your grads: what all library schools should be doing

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

When I graduated from FSU with my MLIS, I didn’t come out of it with job searching tips, an alumni network or really any help of any kind in finding a job. The College of Information, as it is now called, wasn’t great with the mentoring, networking, support stuff. So when I saw the Prospectus [...]

Buy This Book. Now!

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

The NextGen Librarian’s Survival Guide by Rachel Singer Gordon If you’re a nextgen librarian, a new librarian, or someone who now or may one day be supervising nextgen librarians, you should run and order this book right now. I just got it in the mail last night and after looking at the Table of Contents, [...]

On Becoming the Change You Want to See

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

Other than perhaps being included in a blanket condemnation of “illiterate bloggers,” I never would have thought that I’d be so much as acknowledged by an incoming ALA President. Although she got my name wrong, it’s still nice to see that Leslie Burger is keeping up with the conversations in the blogosphere. And I really [...]

We’re hiring

Friday, December 2nd, 2005

Just a head’s up for those on the job hunt, though this is not a position for those who are brand-new librarians. We are hiring a Coordinator of Public Services. Here’s the description and the requirements: Description: Norwich University’s Kreitzberg Library seeks a dynamic, team-oriented librarian for the position of Coordinator of Public Services. This [...]

Cool things I found this week

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

The unsinkable Rachel Singer Gordon’s column about the role Gen-X’ers can play as a bridge between the boomers and the millennials. She’s dead-on and this is an article you should clip out and give to the boomer library administrators you know. Heidi Dolamore’s blog, Quiddle. Her posts about her job interviews should be read by [...]

My year in blog

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

Today is the anniversary of my blog (Adam laughed at me when I used the word “blogiversary”). Part of me can’t believe it’s already been a year since I first started this blog. The other part of me can’t believe it’s only been a year for all I’ve written and for all that has changed! [...]

Why blog?

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

I used to blog a lot more than I do now. I was unemployed and had a lot of free time. Now that I have a job and a house and other committments, I had to ask myself why should I continue blogging? Is it worth the time it takes? The answer I came up [...]

Letters to a not-so-young wanna-be Librarian

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Ok, Rilke’s title sounded a lot better. I got an email this morning from a gentleman from New York City who is in his early 40′s. He recently started library school and has been hearing all sorts of horror stories about the job market and how terrible it is to work in public libraries. While [...]

Finding a job and finding lasting love

Sunday, September 11th, 2005

When I was looking for a job, I remember reading (and sometimes participating in) the many discussions about the job market on NEWLIB-L and NEXGENLIB-L. People would talk about how they’d read articles about a rosy employment forecast for librarians and how the graying of the profession would lead to plentiful jobs. I read those [...]

The “kept-up” distance learning librarian

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

I have gotten several emails from library students who feel that their programs are not teaching them enough about technology. The student I heard from a few days ago expressed concerns that she would be at a distinct disadvantage when she got out of school and wondered if I learned what I know about technology [...]

The Job Hunt: What I Learned

Saturday, July 9th, 2005

Over the past few weeks, I’ve taken some time to reflect on my job search. I spent a long time looking for a job; longer than I’d expected, though a shorter time than many others I’ve met or read about. I’ve heard about new librarians having anywhere between 200 rejection letters to only having to [...]

Life is good

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

I’ve been wanting to blog about this for a while… I got a job. I was offered the position about 11 days ago, but was nervous about blogging about something that was not yet in writing. After having lunch yesterday with the Library Director and her husband, I realized that yes, I really do have [...]

Do you like your patrons?

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

I just had another really great interview today. I could get used to this (though I could also get used to having a job and being done with these shenanigans)! The search committee said a lot of things that impressed me, but what really stuck with me was the fact that when I asked “what [...]

On the other hand…

Sunday, June 5th, 2005

In the past, I’ve written about the do’s and don’t’s of interviewing and have described some of the bad experiences I’ve had in interviews. So I thought it would be good to mention the absolutely wonderful interview experience I had on Friday (I just got home yesterday). Like I’ve said before, the way you are [...]

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