My interview with success story Kevin Naomi: How did you find your current job? Kevin: The position was posted in the RAILS (Reaching Across Illinois Library System) library job board. Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Kevin: In general, I have always liked older big-city central public libraries. Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh is a…
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Power On!
Yay!!!! 🙂 Naomi Now to catch up on INALJ and emails 🙂 So thankful the giant 30 foot tree branch didn’t fall on our house. Hoping everyone gets power back ASAP. I hear the government is open tomorrow so off to work I go. Would like a do-over weekend 🙂 I had not realized that…
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Power Out!
Hi All, Typing this from a DC McDonalds as we have had no power since the surprise series of storms Friday night. Fingers crossed it will be on soon. Still going to try and get the daily jobs digest out tomorrow afternoon 🙂 Naomi
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Movies about work, jobs & job hunting
I have started a thread on the LinkedIn page for suggestions for movies about working, jobs, that take place in a work context or involve job hunting. I would love to hear our recommendations. Join the discussion HERE!
Interviews, Success Stories
Shannon Schinagl …In Six
My interview with success story Shannon Naomi: How did you find your current job? Shannon: Using the INALJ digest, I checked each of the New England states each week. When an opening came up, I applied. I have to say that even though it was expensive, I did offer to fly out from Seattle to…
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Miraida Morales …In Six
My interview with success story Miraida Naomi: How did you find your current job? Miraida: Networking, networking, networking. A very good friend of mine sent me the job description a few months ago and the rest is history. I used to feel that networking was akin to nepotism, and always shied away from it. It…
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Interviews!
I have three separate tabs at the top of all of my pages that will lead you to interviews with Success Stories: Librarians and info pros who have found work Great Organizations: Non-profits and other great organizations with a focus on reading, literacy, media and the arts In Six: All interviews including ones with librarians…
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Sylvia Bly …In Six
My interview with success story Sylvia Naomi: How did you find your current job? Sylvia: Fairly sure it was the INALJ digest. I am a fellow volunteer for the Maine and Maryland sections, and I take a peek at Michigan every time! Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Sylvia: I like the Skillman Branch…
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Eye Na Elle Jay: You say tom-AY-to and I say…
reposted from 12/8/11 So how do I pronounce INALJ? I say it Eye-Na-Elle-Jay (or Ina as in Garten, Elle Jay) but I have heard it pronounced as one syllable inallggg and as I-N-A-L-J. 🙂 It stands for I Need a Library Job- and I wish it was a less clunky name but I can’t think…
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Lacy McDonald …In Six
My interview with success story Lacy Naomi: How did you find your current job? Lacy: I moved to Alton, IL last November when my husband got a job in the area. I started volunteering at the Hayner Public Library District in January, and clicked with the Volunteer Coordinator right away. Soon, the library posted an…
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Shaula Stephenson …In Six
My interview with success story Shaula Naomi: How did you find your current job? Shaula: I found my current job, appropriately enough, on the INALJ.com daily digest. I remember vividly sitting on my couch on a Saturday morning reading the job description and thinking, “this includes pieces of almost every job I’ve ever had. I…
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Internet!
I am taking a wicked chance here by posting about the successful fixing of my home internet 🙂 but I also wanted to let everyone who has written me in the past two weeks know that I promise to get back to you this week! Thanks everyone who came out the DC/SLA event at Catholic…
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No internet yet
Hi All, I have been internet-free at home for over a week now. Comcast swears it will be fixed Monday. Til then I have been at McDonalds trying to bust out Monday’s daily jobs edition. Fingers crossed all will be working soon 🙂 If you have emailed me and not heard back first a HUGE…
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Success Stories!
One of the aspects of INALJ that provides me with motivation is reading the stories of librarians and information professionals who have found jobs. I post them throughout the week but wanted to make special note that you can always find them in the tab that is labeled “success stories” on every single page of…
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Rudeness
I recently received the following tweets from an ‘aspiring’ librarian. “Not to be nasty, but do any of the volunteers check links? I have been clicking on a lot of dead links in today’s digest :(” “This isn’t something to get volunteers for? What good is a 150+ document if no one bothers to see…
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Must follow: ALA JobList on Facebook
reposted from 1/23/12 I love lists and I have made many of my own but sometimes I find I can miss something great buried in the middle of a list so I wanted to spotlight ALA Joblist on Facebook and explain why I love it so. The folks over at ALA Joblist don’t just post…
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Dana Tunick …In Six
My interview with success story Dana Naomi: How did you find your current job? Dana: I found my current job first on the INALJ website, then I had heard that the position hadn’t been filled by a relative who saw the posting in a local newspaper. Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Dana: I…
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Reed David …In Six
My interview with success story Reed Naomi: How did you find your current job? Reed: I first heard about it from an e-mail sent to the Music Library Association’s listserv. It was posted on INALJ as well. Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Reed: My favorite libraries include the Library of Congress (although the…
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Tyler Dzuba …In Six
My interview with success story Tyler Naomi: How did you find your current job? Tyler: While I was in library school, I worked as a graduate assistant at UNC’s Brauer Math/Physics Library. I developed really fantastic rapport with my supervisor, Zari Kamarei, during that time. She left to be the Head of Science and Engineering…
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May Roundup
This month has been fantastic! Fifty-six fans found jobs which is up from fifteen last May. In May 2011 the daily INALJ digest was around 67 pages long. Now it often 180+ pages by Friday. I love looking back and hope we continue to grow in leaps and bounds. It is hard working finding job…
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Alicia Schofield …In Six
My interview with success story Alicia Naomi: How did you find your current job? Alicia: I found the job posting through a job listserv that the U of I’s library school hosts. Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Alicia: The closed stacks of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. Naomi: Favorite book? Alicia: This month…
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Benji Martin …In Six
My interview with success story Benji Naomi: How did you find your current job? Benji: I am happy to say that I saw a listing on the INALJ daily digest, the very day I renewed my job search, and applied for it. Two weeks later, I was hired! I don’t think it’s really sunk in…
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Amy Gutierrez …In Six
My interview with success story Amy Naomi: How did you find your current job? Amy: My resume’ is on all the major career websites, so although I’m not positive I think I think the recruiter found me on Monster.com. Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Amy: Being a Southern California native, I’d have to…
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The Interns are Coming!
I am so grateful to Caity Bauer and Katherine Vitlin for volunteering to be the new INALJ interns and Associate editors. They will be formatting the daily jobs digest and I couldn’t be happier. I am hoping to profile them on here soon and start featuring articles and blog postings by them too! Thanks a…
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Stephanie Bennett …In Six
My interview with success story Stephanie Naomi: How did you find your current job? Stephanie: I have to confess, it’s an archives job. And – I applied for it! Truly, I didn’t have any connections at the institution, so I wrote up a cover letter and had my advisor/job guru look it over. One call…
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My library :)
Though unfortunately I was off on the day that Cathy of the fab blog Love Special Libraries came to visit you can read her profile here: US Census Bureau Library blog post. The photos are fabulous!!! 🙂
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INALJ Off Monday
Hi All, No INALJ daily jobs digest on Monday. Taking Memorial Day off! Cheers, Naomi
Interviews, Success Stories
Lisa Norton …In Six
My interview with success story Lisa Naomi: How did you find your current job? Lisa: I actually found my current job through pure happenstance. When I kicked off my job hunting journey, I decided I would solely focus on landing my dream job as a reference librarian at a public library. However, as the months…
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Hannah Winkler …In Six
My interview with success story Hannah Naomi: How did you find your current job? Hannah: Originally, several friends forwarded me the job advertisement knowing that it would be exactly what I was looking for. (And it was!) But it was also posted on GEONET listserv, ALA joblist, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. I was…
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Leslie Haas …In Six
My interview with success story Leslie Naomi: How did you find your current job? Leslie: I was looking through ALA Joblist and came across the advertisement for a library director for Zayed University in the UAE. I was intrigued and did some research on the university and what life is like in the UAE. I…
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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…
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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:…
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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, and also added several New England library job boards to my RSS feed. I’m not sure whether I found the it in INALJ or the Mass…
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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 research so I reached out to other librarians I knew who were doing the same type of work. However, I also tried to be creative about…
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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, University of Toronto’s iSchool Job Site, and the University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Information and Media Studies employment resources page. I found the posting for…
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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 in the INALJ daily digest and thought it looked interesting. I applied for it and received a phone interview. After that they asked me to come…
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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 job sites, but occasionally advertises jobs in the US. A few of my friends sent the job posting to me thinking it would be a good…
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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 in February of my final semester. It landed in my lap–I had barely begun my job search at that point. Naomi: Favorite library you have been…
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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 did not know anyone affiliated with or anything about Francis Marion, but (after researching it) the university sounded like a great fit. The head of reference…
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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 email feed from Indeed.com that sent me any job post in my area that included the word “library.” The Gensler job description mentioned that a Library…