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Alexandra Carter …In Six

May 18, 2012
Alexandra Carter …In Six

My interview with success story Alexandra Naomi: How did you find your current job? Alexandra: I never would have expected this, but I actually found out about the job via a posting on Monster.com, which isn’t generally the greatest source for library jobs. I did see the same posting later on a library-related listserv, but by that point I had sent in my application and scheduled an interview. I think for this one, speed was very important. I sent in my resume, interviewed, and was hired all in just...

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Megan Myers …In Six

May 17, 2012
Megan Myers …In Six

My interview with success story Megan Naomi: How did you find your current job? Megan: While interning with a federal agency under the Student Temporary Employment Program (STEP) I was strongly encouraged to pursue the Presidential Management Fellowship Program ( http://pmf.gov), a leadership development program that recruits advanced degree candidates to the federal government. During the two-year appointment, fellows...

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Ashley Wilson …In Six

May 16, 2012
Ashley Wilson …In Six

My interview with success story Ashley Naomi: How did you find your current job? Ashley: By scouring city and county websites every day for nearly six months. I made a list of all the websites that had relevant jobs and blocked out time each day to check out if anything new had been posted. Naomi: Favorite library you have...

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Kate Gray …In Six

May 15, 2012
Kate Gray …In Six

My interview with success story Kate Naomi: How did you find your current job? Kate: I have been looking at INALJ’s daily digest every day for about six months,...

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Nicole Fonsh …In Six

May 14, 2012
Nicole Fonsh …In Six

My interview with success story Nicole Naomi: How did you find your current job? Nicole: I networked like crazy! I had a feeling I wanted to get into development...

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Happy Mother’s Day Mom!

May 13, 2012

Wishing my Mom (a former INALJ interviewee no less), Sheryl, a Happy Mother’s Day. My Mom is a teacher, library lover and volunteers at the local Historical Society. Wish...

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Sarah Barriage …In Six

May 11, 2012
Sarah Barriage …In Six

My interview with success story Sarah Naomi: How did you find your current job? Sarah: Throughout my job search I had been checking a number of sites, including LibraryJobs.ca,...

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Networking Tips for the Reluctant Networker

May 10, 2012

by Ellen Mehling. Ellen Mehling is Director of the Westchester Graduate Library School Program and Director of Internships at Long Island University’s Palmer School of Library and Information Science...

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Sarah Schlageck …In Six

May 10, 2012
Sarah Schlageck …In Six

My interview with success story Sarah Naomi: How did you find your current job? Sarah: My Mom mentioned it to me first. I ignored her until I saw it...

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Marsha Taichman …In Six

May 9, 2012
Marsha Taichman …In Six

My interview with success story Marsha Naomi: How did you find your current job? Marsha: I found my current job via the Partnership listserv, which usually focuses on Canadian...

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Liz Koehler …In Six

May 8, 2012
Liz Koehler …In Six

My interview with success story Liz Naomi: How did you find your current job? Liz: The posting for my current job was sent out through my library school listserv...

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Lessa Pelayo-Lozada …In Six

May 7, 2012
Lessa Pelayo-Lozada …In Six

My interview with success story Lessa Naomi: How did you find your current job? Lessa: I originally saw the job posted on the CALIX listserv and then saw it...

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Tammy Ivins …In Six

May 4, 2012
Tammy Ivins …In Six

My interview with success story Tammy Naomi: How did you find your current job? Tammy: I believe that I found the job posting on libgig.com, pulled from ALA. I...

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Emily Stephens …In Six

May 3, 2012
Emily Stephens …In Six

My interview with success story Emily Naomi: How did you find your current job? Emily: I found my job as a Gensler Knowledge Support Specialist by setting up an...

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Nico Carver …In Six

May 2, 2012
Nico Carver …In Six

My interview with success story Nico Naomi: How did you find your current job? Nico: I first saw the job listed on the inalj daily digest! I immediately knew...

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Catherine Wagner …In Six

May 1, 2012
Catherine Wagner …In Six

My interview with success story Catherine Naomi: How did you find your current job? Catherine: I found my current job on the INALJ daily .pdf. I didn’t hear anything...

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Veg

May 1, 2012

In an effort to turn over a more prolific leaf this May I decided to spend the last evening of April vegging out. I watched the first four episodes...

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Dina Herbert …In Six

April 30, 2012
Dina Herbert …In Six

My interview with success story Dina! Naomi: How did you find your current job? Dina: I found my job the old fashioned way – my mother told me to...

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April Roundup

April 30, 2012

This month has been fantastic! Forty-seven fans found jobs which is up from sixteen last April. In April 2011 the daily INALJ digest was around 66 pages long. Now...

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Maria M. Bonet …In Six

April 27, 2012
Maria M. Bonet …In Six

My interview with INALJ success story Maria Naomi: How did you find your current job? Maria: While I had been looking through the LAC Group’s job adverts for a...

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Seeking nominations

April 26, 2012

I am interested in reaching out to new people to interview for INALJ. If you know of anyone who has been successful in finding a job, or a faculty...

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Andy Woodworth …In Six

April 25, 2012
Andy Woodworth …In Six

Reposting from 1/10/12 My interview with the fabulous blogger Andy Woodworth of Agnostic, Maybe . Naomi: What is your dream job and why? Andy: If I could do my...

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Jennifer Randles …In Six

April 24, 2012
Jennifer Randles …In Six

My interview with success story Jennifer Naomi: How did you find your current job? Jennifer: My new position is actually where I worked as a graduate student assistant while...

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For Librarians, Buy Librarians

April 24, 2012
For Librarians, Buy Librarians

Reposted from 1/21/12 and the 2011 holiday season Welcome to For Librarians, Buy Librarian- my guide to some of my favorite web-based shops run (mostly) by librarians! Originally posted...

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Dee Krasnansky …In Six

April 23, 2012
Dee Krasnansky …In Six

My interview with success story Dee Naomi: How did you find my current job? Dee: Answered ad in local paper Naomi: Favorite library? Dee: Finksburg Library in Carroll County....

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Something I am Working On: Job Hunting Strategies

April 22, 2012

Over at the INALJ LinkedIn Group I started a discussion on jobs with no applicants that has morphed into a brainstorming session on strategies in the job hunt, specifically...

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Maureen Carroll …In Six

April 20, 2012
Maureen Carroll …In Six

My interview with success story Maureen Naomi: How did you find your current job? Maureen: I found my current job through Indeed.com, which is a site that has served...

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Jarrett Farmer …In Six

April 19, 2012
Jarrett Farmer …In Six

My interview with success story Jarrett Naomi: How did you find your current job? Jarrett: I have worked for Baltimore County Public Library since I was 17. I started...

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Housed!

April 18, 2012

So the closing on our house this week is distracting me in my free time. Apologies for the light amount of postings here on INALJ.com and I plan on...

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Susanne Markgren …In Six

April 16, 2012
Susanne Markgren …In Six

My interview with Susanne of LISJobs Career Q&A Naomi: What made you interested in starting your online Career Q&A? Susanne: Career Q&A with the Library Career People began as...

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Monday Daily Digest- will be late

April 15, 2012

Hi All, I am (fingers crossed) closing on a house tomorrow (4/16) morning so the daily jobs digest might be out late in the evening Drove out to Assateague...

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Rachel Somerville …In Six

April 13, 2012
Rachel Somerville …In Six

My interview with INALJ success story Rachel Naomi: How did you find your current job? Rachel: I heard about and became interested in the company through a friend and...

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Back in the Saddle

April 13, 2012

Hi Everyone, I am hoping to be back to full functioning by Tuesday. I hope to be adding more articles as well as the fabulous In Six interviews. This...

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Brian Mathews …In Six

April 12, 2012
Brian Mathews …In Six

My interview with Brian Matthews, the Ubiquitous Librarian Naomi: What is your dream job and why? Brian: My “dream” job is to be the founder and CEO of a...

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Must Read: Think Like a Start-Up by Brian Mathews

April 12, 2012

Brian Mathews, who blogs as the Ubiquitous Librarian for the Chronicle of Higher Education and who is also Associate Dean for Learning & Outreach at Virginia Tech has a...

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Kristen Kennedy …In Six

April 11, 2012
Kristen Kennedy …In Six

My interview with success story Kristen Naomi: How did you find your current job? Kristen: I interned at the ACLU in my last semester of library school and really...

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Karly Szczepkowski …In Six

April 10, 2012
Karly Szczepkowski …In Six

My interview with the author of INALJ’s Top 10 Job Sites for Librarians & Info Pro’s, Karly, reposted from 12/16/11 Naomi: What is your dream job and why? And...

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Top 10 Job Sites for Librarians & Info Pro’s

April 10, 2012

reposted from 12/5/11 by Karly Szczepkowski More than just job postings, these are resources, blogs, social media sites and satire that inspire, inform, amuse and distract. In no particular...

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Brian Rogers …In Six

April 9, 2012
Brian Rogers …In Six

My interview with success story Brian Naomi: How did you find your current job? Brian: Similar to others, I followed INALJ, various blogs, organizational job boards, and listservs. I...

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Keywords for Job Searching

This is a list of terms we use and suggest for searching for jobs in and related to library work.
  • Librarian
  • Library
  • Information Professional
  • Taxonomist
  • Taxonomy
  • Database
  • Database Designer
  • KM
  • Knowledge Management
  • User Interface Designer
  • Community Manager
  • Knowledge Architect
  • Data Management Analyst
  • Information Architect
  • Social Media
  • Social Marketer
  • Intelligence Analyst
  • Open Source
  • Trainer
  • Teacher
  • Technology Trainer
  • Technology Futurist
  • Database Designer
  • Metadata
  • Knowledge Coordinator
  • Indexing
  • Indexer
  • Digital Content Curator
  • Transactional Law Researcher
  • Content Strategy
  • User Experience Design (UXD)
  • Project Analyst
  • Information Resource Officer
  • Certified Records manager

updated 3/6/12