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August 2015 Roundup (INALJ Stats)

13 million page views! What a great month!  August was such an amazing month at INALJ, though bittersweet.  It was also the end of an INALJ era as it was the last month long serving volunteers Rachael Altman, COO and Ashley Mancill, Volunteer Manager, were with us. Starting in August I went back to my roots and was the…

Addressing Diversity in the Job Search Process

Addressing Diversity in the Job Search Process by Oscar Giurcovich, Senior Editor As an LIS job seeker, I come across something along the lines of the following quite frequently when looking at the requirements of a position: interest or ability to work in a multicultural environment. What does this mean? What are they looking for?…

Librarian in a Box!

Librarian in a Box! by Kate Kosturski, Volunteer Coordinator and Senior Editor, INALJ Ontario and INALJ Quebec Today, you can just about get anything in a subscription box, delivered to your door on set intervals – from makeup (Birchbox) to clothes (Stitch Fix) to intimates (Wantable – and yes you read that right, there is a subscription box for…

My House in New Orleans

by Naomi House, MLIS updated 10/28/14 – SOLD! My House in New Orleans My house is for sale! In my article, Why I Quit My Library Job and Why I No Longer Want One, I mentioned that currently my main income comes from renovating old houses and selling them. I have been flipping houses since…

#LibrariesAre

It can be easy to get down after reading misinformation on the web about #Libraries so starting today on Twitter I am tweeting using the #LibrariesAre hashtag sharing news articles about the awesome range of services, or tagging #SaturdayLibrarian friends and asking for their thoughts, as well as tweeting and thanking specific libraries that have…

INALJ Needs Donations

Hi Everyone, What a terrific start to the new year!  We are hoping to have over 1,000 success stories again in 2014.  This is an all volunteer run organization and all expenses come out of my pocket.  I don’t do donation calls often but it would be swell if you could donate, especially as this…

MLK Day: INALJ is closed

INALJ.com allows all its editors all federal holidays off, so today most pages are not being updated. This is a perfect time to reflect on Dr. King’s work and legacy.  Diversity in our field is scarce and something we should all strive for as well as including other perspectives and voices in all our library…

4 Million page views!

Early yesterday, 1/13/14, INALJ.com reached a new milestone- 4 million page views! Congrats to each and every single volunteer (head editors and others are listed in the left sidebar, below)! Naomi

Thankful

Another year and again, I just wanted to take this opportunity today to say Thanks! Thanks to the INALJ fans, to the employers who have hired and continue to support librarians and information professionals and to my friends and family. On this (belated) Thanksgiving I am thankful for the opportunity to share these jobs, ALL…

Ask Naomi: expecting different results

Ask Naomi: expecting different results I really do believe that you cannot keep doing what you have always done and expect different results- this applies to the job hunting world as well. If you only apply to one type of job (librarian) or at one type of place (public library, university, etc) and you aren’t…

Happy Mother’s Day Mom!

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. Glad we could be there! Love, Naomi and Sana   reposted from 5/13/12

Buy My House! My house is for sale :)

We just put our house on the market after renovating it and we think the world of this neighborhood in Hyattsville, MD.  If you are looking for an affordable neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, shopping and is close to the metro and DC than check us out!  The door is red now, as…

Back in Black

So I am back from vacation and happen to be wearing all black today…even my gym clothes, black.  I think that is a perfectly reasonable excuse for a blog posting of this title 🙂 Tons of photos and a blog posting about UAE and Dubai to come!

Best Week at INALJ, Ever!

What a week! No really, what..a..week!  A HUGE thanks to the now over 100  INALJ volunteers, especially all the new Head Editors of state and province pages.  INALJ has more than doubled its hits this week and on Monday, when we launched the state and province pages, we quadrupled our most page views ever! I…

Spotlight on #1 INALJ California

The response has been overwhelming!  INALJ.com has quadrupled daily readership since the launch of the state pages!  I will be highlighting the pages one by one on here.  First up is the most popular page, INALJ California! It is managed by Head Editor,Sarah Porter, and her assistants, Amy Pham, Rita M. Romero, Lee Safran and…

INALJ Jobs with new State Pages!

Good morning! I am so excited to announce that today we launch INALJ Jobs with state and province pages to replace the daily digest pdf.   In addition to each state page being a resource for jobs they also include all of the resources that we use and used to house on the AL-HI, ID-MT and…

Sneak Peek!

I bet some of you are curious about our new State and Province pages.  After all, the pdf may be something you are quite used to so you wonder why all this change.  Oh my goodness!  let me tell you that by adding over 100 volunteers INALJ will become so much more robust and have…

Monday, Monday Can’t Come Soon Enough

Why?  Because Monday, February 4th I am launching INALJ State pages!!!  Yep a page for each and every state and all Canadian provinces with tons more jobs, links to websites, etc!  And starting mid-month I will be publishing tons more stories and news and articles and lists and ….well the list goes on and on.…

Blahg

There are some changes coming to INALJ in February and one of them is that I will increase the number of postings each day.  Currently I mostly post interviews with success stories and people working for some great organizations.  These interviews will remain a daily thing but I will also be adding more articles, top…

Daily email alerts!

Hi Everyone, At the end of 2012 I stopped doing my manual email alerts for the daily jobs.  Instead for all INALJ.com alerts sign up at http://inalj.com/ on the right sidebar. Or bookmark the daily jobs page! Happy job hunting! Naomi

INALJ is now Ad Free!!!

Hi one and all!  One of my New Year’s resolutions was to do a bi-annual fund drive to replace ads.  I want INALJ to include ONLY content that I feel confident and comfortable sharing.  Since I can’t limit ads on Facebook at least here we can be ad free. I will be doing a $…