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 of Game of Thrones season one and didn’t touch the internet (iPhone doesn’t count right?) Now…May!
Interviews, Success Stories
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 email a friend of hers who had a friend in the DC area who’s sister was a librarian (seriously). Basically, I sent a networking email to…
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April Roundup
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 it often 200+ 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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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 while, I actually saw the job I was hired for–a contract with the Library of Congress as a Library Assistant or Library Materials Handler–in the INALJ…
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Seeking nominations
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 ember that has been supportive or even a blogger whose site you find helpful send me an email at ineedalibraryjob@gmail.com with a brief explanation of who…
Interviews
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 blog as a full time job, I’d be ecstatic. I enjoy the conversations around these issues as well as the analysis and reactions. It would be…
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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 earning my MSIS degree. One of the supervisors left her position to pursue another career, and I applied for it. I was thrilled that the position…
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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. It offers lots of parking, plenty of computers with no problem about asking for extra time. Most importantly, the staff is knowledgeable, friendly and eager to…
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Something I am Working On: Job Hunting Strategies
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 for those who are able to relocate. Join us online with any suggestions and tips, but please read through the discussion first to avoid duplications and…
Interviews, Success Stories
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 me well for both my first job in a private corporation to my current job in a public school. Naomi: Favorite library you have been to?…
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Housed!
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 having more interviews this week. 🙂 Happy job hunting! The daily jobs email is on schedule 🙂
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Monday Daily Digest- will be late
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 and Ocean City today and up to Rehoboth Beach. Will attach a photo at some point. Happy job hunting all!
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Back in the Saddle
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 has been a very busy few weeks but I look forward to being back in the swing of things 🙂
Interviews
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 wildly successful startup company. I’m addicted to entrepreneurialism. I love meeting, brainstorming and hanging out with innovators and creative types. I love watching ideas grow into…
Interviews, Success Stories
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 enjoyed it, but they had no plans to hire more staff in the near future. Then a few months after I graduated, a posting came up…
Articles
Top 10 Job Sites for Librarians & Info Pro’s
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 order: 1. Lisjobs.com : Job postings for librarians and information professionals. The site is entirely maintained by Rachel Singer Gordon. One of my favorite places to…
Interviews, Success Stories
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 also benefited from my girlfriend and a small network of colleagues forwarding announcements on a weekly basis. My impending position resulted from one of these email…
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Blog Love: LLRX.com
reposting from 3/2/12. And I loved CiL this year I am quite excited about this year’s Computers in Libraries conference and happy that I will be able to attend at least one of the days. It reminded me of my first CIL conference several years ago in DC when I had the pleasure of taking…
Articles
A Must Read Article from Ellen Mehling of METRO
One of my favorite library people, Ellen Mehling, has written an article entitled I Advise With a Little Help From My Friends: Finding Career Advice in Pop Music over at the Metro.org website. It is fun but still full of seriously good advise.
Interviews, Success Stories
Margo Kulseth Klein …In Six
My interview with success story Margo Naomi: How did you find your current job? Margo: I found my new job on the website of Minnesota Council of Nonprofits. Naomi: Favorite library? Margo: I don’t have a favorite library. I love them all. Naomi: Favorite book? Margo: I have many favorite books, but one that stands…
Interviews, Success Stories
Michael Hughes …In Six
My interview with success story Michael Naomi: How did you find your current job? Michael: I first found it on LISjobs.com, but it showed up in the INALJ, too. Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Michael: I’m a Shakespeare nerd, so the Folger Library in D.C. is a real treat. Just look at this…
Interviews, Success Stories
AnnMarie Hurtado …In Six
My interview with INALJ success story AnnMarie Naomi: How did you find your current job? AnnMarie: I actually found my new job at Pasadena using INALJ! I have used your listserv for about a year when it was recommended to me by a librarian friend who I knew from LISSTEN (a student organization I was…
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Blog Love: Hiring Librarians
reposted from 3/12/12 with added info The past several weeks myself and many of my contributors and fans have been all abuzz about a new blog that focuses on the behind-the-scenes hiring process at libraries by Emily Weak called Hiring Librarians. It is wonderful, insightful, full of tips and Emily has a call out to…
Interviews, Success Stories
Amy Neeser …In Six
My interview with success story Amy Naomi: How did you find your current job? Amy I identified an institution I wanted to work for and formed as many connections with it as possible. I am an alumna from the University of Minnesota so I knew their vision and philosophies were in line with my own.…
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March Roundup
This month has been fantastic! Forty-one fans found jobs which is up from eight last March. March 25, 2011 I stopped calling the daily email the LJDD (Library Job Daily Digest) and started calling it INALJ (I Need A Library Job) and it was 101 pages long Now it is INALJ and over 150 pages…
Interviews, Success Stories
Lindsey Fresta …In Six
My interview with success story Lindsey! Naomi: How did you find your current job? Lindsey: I must say, prior to landing this job at the American Institute of Physics’ Emilio Segre Visual Archives, I was… what’s the word… incessant about checking job boards! I found this job through the Society of American Archivists job board.…
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Safe and Sound
We had a bit of a scare on Saturday. Our little Toyota Corolla was sideswiped by a semi truck on 495N on Saturday just before 6pm when we were returning from a daytrip to Fredericksburg, VA. We are so lucky that all we lost was the front bumper of our car, some of the front…
Interviews
Mia Breitkopf …In Six
Reposted froim 1/13/12 My interview with Mia Breitkopf whose article “61 non-librarian jobs for LIS Grads” is catching on fire. Naomi: What is your dream job and why? Mia: Last year, when I was itching to define my career goals, I went to the bookstore and walked away with Life’s A Bitch and Then You…
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Quick Links
I had a wonderful time at Computers in Libraries here in DC yesterday and look forward to writing a bit more here about my experience. In the meantime for new INALJ fans here are some quick links to INALJ content. All “In Six” interviews can be found Here All “Success Stories” from INALJ fans who…
Interviews, Success Stories
Ben Neal …In Six
My interview with success story Ben Naomi: How did you find your current job? Ben: I found the job posting on the Northeast Tennessee Library Network. Within a few hours of sending in my resume and cover letter, they had contacted me for an interview for the next week. The day after I interviewed I…
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Gone to look for America
We just got back from a whirlwind four day trip from suburban DC (MD) to Chattanooga, Nashville, Memphis, Little Rock, back to Memphis, St Louis, Charleston and back home again. 3,000 miles later we are madly addicted to the open road. Perhaps there is some way we can combine trucking and librarianship? We spent this…
Interviews, Success Stories
Ilana Barnes …In Six
My interview with success story Ilana Naomi: How did you find your current job? Ilana: I keep a very large Google reader feed going from a lot of different sources, so I’m not entirely sure where it was posted originally. I got my current group of feeds from my friend/awesome person Emily Johnson. You can…
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Back tomorrow (Tuesday)
Fully refreshed after a great road trip- thanks to all who guessed the photo of my husband Sana was in Little Rock, AR. We loved our too brief visit there 🙂
Interviews, Success Stories
Christopher Schmit …In Six
INALJ success story Christopher! Naomi: How did you find your current job? Christopher: I actually found it by looking through the daily INALJ email. I have a bunch of RSS feeds set up with a variety of organizations and joblists, but this one wasn’t posted on one of those feeds, and I was glad to…
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Oh where, oh where can she be
I am taking this Friday and Monday off so the daily digest will not be published those days. I will publish an edition today and will email and post it by late afternoon here: INALJ Daily Jobs Digest. Happy job hunting everyone! Naomi
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Is there anybody going to listen to my story …
I have a Beatles earworm this morning and thought it was a nice segue into reminding everyone to check out all of the In Six interviews. The interviews are full of fabulous information, great must read blogs and tips on job hunting. Happy hunting all!
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Two days off
Just wanted to let everyone know in advance that I will be off Friday March 16th and Monday March 19th, so there will be no daily jobs digest on those days. 🙂
Articles
Music to Job Hunt By
Reposted from 12/15/11 Back a few months ago I asked fans on FB and the Music Librarians group on LinkedIn what songs they listened to while job hunting. I got a fabulously eclectic group of responses and created this radio station: Grooveshark Music to Job Hunt By. I am happy to intermittently add more songs-…
Interviews
Paul Vinelli …In Six
My interview with Paul Vinelli, the author of the Unofficial SXSWi Primer for Rowdy Librarians. Naomi: What made you interested in creating this guide for SXSW? Paul: Last year was my first time at Interactive, and in the blur I was fortunate to connect with Jessamyn West and Paul Jones (UNC-Chapel Hill & iBiblio). After…
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Librarians Swarm Austin! A Handy SXSW Interactive Primer
by Paul Vinelli, graduate student in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin Librarians Swarm Austin! A Handy SXSW Interactive Primer SXSW Interactive is an overwhelming assault on the senses. Fortunately, over the past few months a team of top library professionals from across the country has worked incredibly hard to…