by Shayna Monnens, Head Editor, INALJ South Dakota Be A Volunteer (aka. Getting your foot in the door) More than likely you are in this profession because you love books. You love the idea of reading and sharing these ideas with the others around you. Maybe you have even gone on to receive a degree…
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Grass is Greener?
by Richard James, Head Editor, INALJ Delaware Grass is Greener? In the corporate/commercial world, it’s becoming a reasonable expectation that many employees, particularly younger ones, are not going to commit long-term to their new employer. Cultural and economic shifts on both sides of the employer/employee divide have taken us a long way from the type…
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On Table Topics and the Job Interview
by Africa Hands, Head Editor, INALJ Kentucky On Table Topics and the Job Interview Not too long ago I was a member of a local Toastmasters club. You may have heard of Toastmasters – the speaking and leadership club that helps you get more comfortable speaking in front of an audience and facilitating meetings. It’s…
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Open Cover Letters
by Leigh Milligan, Head Editor, INALJ Wisconsin Open Cover Letters One of my favorite websites that gives me motivation during my job search is called Open Cover Letters. This website is a collection of anonymous cover letters submitted by hired librarians and archivists. Each cover letter is titled by the position that the anonymous person…
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The Greatest Library in the History of the World: The Library at Alexandria
by Courtney Baron, Head Editor, INALJ Georgia The Greatest Library in the History of the World: The Library at Alexandria The ancient city of Alexandria, Egypt was founded by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C.E. Alexander was Macedonian, a people decidedly different from the Greeks, yet he aimed to validate himself as the legitimate heir…
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Un-rack Your Interview Nerves: prepping makes perfect
by Brittany Bush, Head Editor, INALJ West Virginia Un-rack Your Interview Nerves: prepping makes perfect As someone who tends to fly by the seat of their pants, formal interviews can be nerve racking. Because of this, it is important to begin preparing for your upcoming interview as soon as you are presented the opportunity. The…
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Building a national network with ALA’s Round Tables
by Caitlin Moen, Head Editor, INALJ Louisiana Building a national network with ALA’s Round Tables When I graduated from library school in 2011, I was committed to the idea of librarianship as a profession and participating on the national level. I began a position at an academic library where much of my time was devoted…
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Naomi House and INALJ in Library Journal!
So thrilled to be interviewed by Library Journal about INALJ (I Need a Library Job)! My interview Thanks Library Journal and Meredith!!!
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Free Webinars, Courses, and Conferences (Feb-April 2013)
by Alexis Stapp, Head Editor, INALJ Minnesota Free Webinars, Courses, and Conferences (Feb-April 2013) It’s hard to focus on the education and skill-building aspect of professional development when you’re unemployed, underemployed, or just plain broke. It’s also tough to research new ideas and practices for your library with the tight budgets so many are facing.…
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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!
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Loving What You (Volunteer) to Do
Happy Valentine’s Day! What this day made me think about was just how much I love doing INALJ. We often have to take jobs that we do not fully love but as for volunteering we have more flexibility to chose something we love to do. So if today gets you down or feels in any…
Interviews, Success Stories
Ryan Jones …In Six
This interview is over 1 year old and may no longer be up to date or reflect the interviewee/interviewees’ positions Reposted from 4/6/12 & 8/30/12 My interview with success story Ryan Naomi: How did you find your current job? Ryan: I found my current position at the Maine State Library Job List. I really wanted…
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Ellen Mehling …In Six
This interview is over 1 year old and may no longer be up to date or reflect the interviewee/interviewees’ positions Reposted from 3/1/12 My interview with the multi-talented Ellen, of L.I.U.’s Palmer School of Library and Information Science and METRO Naomi: If you could take any of your hobbies and create a job out of…
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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…
Great Organizations, Interviews
Chris Bradshaw of the African Library Project …In Six
This interview is over 1 year old and may no longer be up to date or reflect the interviewee/interviewees’ positions Originally published 8/21/12 My interview with Chris Bradshaw, Founder/President of the African Library Project. The African Library Project changes lives book by book by starting libraries in rural Africa. Their grassroots approach mobilizes U.S. volunteers,…
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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…
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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…
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January 2013 Roundup
What a great month it has been! We reached 700,000 page views the fourth week of January! Twenty-two fans reported to us that they found jobs! In January we wrapped up the Daily Jobs Digest as a pdf and looked towards launching states pages in February. Some fast stats for January 2013: 721,640 total INALJ.com…
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Kim Dority …In Six
This interview is over 1 year old and may no longer be up to date or reflect the interviewee/interviewees’ positions My interview with Kim Dority reposted from 12/12/11 and 3/14/12 Naomi: What is your dream job and why? Kim: Doing exactly what I’m doing now! I’m self-employed, so I have the freedom to work on…
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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…
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Must Read: Think Like a Start-Up by Brian Mathews
Reposted from 4/12/12 and 6/14/12 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 must read new white paper entitled “Think Like a Start-Up: a White Paper”. I think it is well worth reading the…
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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.…
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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…
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Giving Thanks and Re-networking
One thing I have tried to do in the past year is re-connect with librarians that I have grown to know as a patron. I like to think of this as a way to not only network (or re-network) but also a way to quietly say thanks to those who helped shape what I know…
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Closed Monday for the holiday!
See you all on Tuesday!!!!!
About INALJ
Why no comments?
I am often asked why I don’t have comment threads here at INALJ.com or on FB. The reason is simple- I want all comments to be in one place and part of larger conversations. That is why I created the LinkedIn group for I Need a Library Job. I never wanted to constantly have to…
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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 https://inalj.com/ on the right sidebar. Or bookmark the daily jobs page! Happy job hunting! Naomi
About INALJ, Articles
INALJ’s Annual Report 2012
What a fantastic year this has been! I have compiled an annual report full of charts and stats to give a snapshot of the size, scope and progress at INALJ.com. INALJ Annual Report 2012 Some fast stats for 2012: 624,397 visits to INALJ.com 4,945 fans on Facebook 2,857 Twitter followers 11,396 tweets INALJ.com read…
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Just a Jobs Fangirl
One thing that has surprised me about running INALJ for the past two years is that I am never bored with it. Never. It is my favorite pastime after travel and travel has never gotten in the way of my INALJ 🙂 At heart this makes me a fangirl not just of job hunting, librarians…
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The Collective INALJ
Everyone once in awhile I stumble on a quote that just resonates with me and makes something much more clear. In this case this quote by Hélène Mialet, “Someone who is powerful is a collective, and the more collective s/he becomes, the more singular they seem.” I see INALJ in this same way. Though I do…
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Blog Love: Library Hat
I wanted to quickly share with you a blog I recently found, Library Hat, that has some great information for library job hunters. The author, Bohyun Kim, will be one of the presenters on January 10, 2013 for the American Libraries webinar Landing Your Ideal Library Job. Even if you can’t make the webinar you…
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Job Hunters Respond!
Hiring Librarians (with some assistance from INALJ) has put together a survey for job hunters “(or those hired within the last two months) in all LIS careers, at all levels, who are interested in providing their feedback about the process.” Take the Survey! In addition to posting results Emily Weak at Hiring Librarians has gone…
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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 $…
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2012!
It is here! We took today off but we are back tomorrow in full force. Working on an annual report and hope to have it out soon! Happy New Year from me to you!
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2012 Job finders!
So then in 2012 these people found jobs! ♥ Julie D. -Jan. 2012 Erin W. -Jan. 2012 Jada M. -Jan. 2012 Callie P. -Jan. 2012 (INALJ) Amy N. -Jan. 2012 Ben N. -Jan. 2012 Kate W. -Jan. 2012 Emily S. -Jan. 2012 (non-library) Chris F. -Jan. 2012 (Sweden) (INALJ) Amanda B. -Jan. 2012 (INALJ) (Internship)…
About INALJ
What Would You Say You Do Here? JOBS!
The impetus behind INALJ (I Need a Library Job) was creating a jobs resource of all the library and information professional jobs we could find and distributing them to as many people as possible. To this end it is mostly the INALJ Daily Digest that is the reason for INALJ, the reason for our success…
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On Efficiency
So it came to pass that I finally found some time to reflect on INALJ in 2012. I was riding the train either to or from ACRL/NY’s Symposium where I was to speak on branding. Each day I would forward and reply to over 100 emails. I spent more than an hour on the INALJ…
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JobHunter’s Revenge! The Survey
Emily over at Hiring Librarians and I have come up with a great new survey for the frustrated job hunter as well as the successful one. Tell HR and Hiring Committees what you really think by taking the survey here! We’ll be tabulating and posting the results soon too! Happy venting!
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Who Will Be the #1Success Story?
View all the INALJ library and info pro jobs at: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 What a great year for job hunters that found jobs! I am happy to share their success with everyone through my Success Story interviews! Who will be the #1 most viewed success story of 2012? Share your favorite story on FB, Twitter and with your…
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All the Success Stories!
728 This is the number of fans who have shared their job hunting success with INALJ since we were founded on October 16, 2010! I am so thrilled to have played even a small role in their success and I hope this number multiplies many times in the next few years. In the meantime read…