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…
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Interviews, Success Stories
Alyxandra Bryndzia …Success Story
This interview is over 1 year old and may no longer be up to date or reflect the interviewee/interviewees’ positions All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Alyxandra. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Alyxandra: I found my current position by searching LSSI.…
Articles
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…
Interviews, Success Stories
Liz Anderson …Success Story
This interview is over 1 year old and may no longer be up to date or reflect the interviewee/interviewees’ positions All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Liz. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Liz: A friend of mine who is also a…
Uncategorized
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.…
Interviews
Michele Lucero of LAC Group…In Six
This interview is over 1 year old and may no longer be up to date or reflect the interviewee/interviewees’ positions All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with LAC Group’s Michele. Naomi: How did you come to work for LAC Group? Michele: LAC Group, http://www.lac-group.com/, placed me at me…
Uncategorized
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…
Interviews, Success Stories
Susan Gilman …Success Story
This interview is over 1 year old and may no longer be up to date or reflect the interviewee/interviewees’ positions All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Susan. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Susan: Right now I am transitioning between jobs, both…
Interviews, Success Stories
Christina Harbour …Success Story
This interview is over 1 year old and may no longer be up to date or reflect the interviewee/interviewees’ positions All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Christina. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Christina: I was emailed by someone I met at…
Articles
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…
Interviews, Success Stories
Rebecca Goldman …Media and Digital Services Librarian
This interview is over 1 year old and may no longer be up to date or reflect the interviewee/interviewees’ positions All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Rebecca. Naomi: How did you find your job as a Media and Digital Services Librarian? Rebecca: I first…
Great Organizations, Interviews
Tom Nielsen of SLA Solo Division …In Six
This interview is over 1 year old and may no longer be up to date or reflect the interviewee/interviewees’ positions All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with Tom. Naomi: How did you come to work for SLA? (technically, I’m a volunteer with SLA). Tom: When I started working…
Interviews, Success Stories
Rebecca Vogler …Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Rebecca. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Rebecca: Unlike a previous recent hire at Holland America that you interviewed back in December, I had no clue cruise ships had libraries until about two months ago. I…
Uncategorized
Closed Monday for the holiday!
See you all on Tuesday!!!!!
Interviews, Success Stories
Chris Fitzpatrick …Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Chris. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Chris: There is this thing called I Need A Library Job that I found it on… Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Chris: Pretty hard to beat the…
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…
Interviews, Success Stories
Sabrina Holley-Williams …Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Sabrina. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Sabrina: After 11 years in the same job, my position was eliminated as part of a University-wide restructuring (along with 25% of the law library staff, almost all of whom had 10+ years…
Interviews, Success Stories
Brittany Turner …Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Brittany. Naomi:How did you find your current job? Brittany: Through a listing in INALJ! Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Brittany: A.K. Smiley Public Library (Redlands, CA – http://www.akspl.org/) Naomi: Favorite book? Brittany: The Genius by Theodore…
Interviews, Success Stories
Amelia Kallaher …Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Amelia. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Amelia: I found my current position by applying for a job for Southwest Florida College at their Fort Myers, FL campus. Unfortunately the college never filled that position, but…
Uncategorized
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…
Interviews, Success Stories
Chelsea Jordan-Makely …Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Chelsea. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Chelsea: I actually found two part-time jobs. The first was posted on the Oregon State Library Jobline and on INALJ. The other position is to do a research project…
Articles
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…
Interviews, Success Stories
Visakha Seon …Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Visakha. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Visakha: I was not having any luck landing a traditional library dream job. I was also not willing to relocate so I knew I had to think outside the…
Articles
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…
Interviews, Success Stories
Lydia Willoughby …Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Lydia. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Lydia: I saw the job posting on the Vermont Library Association website. Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Lydia: The Library of Congress, but I also have a…
Articles
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…
Articles
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…
Interviews, Success Stories
Stefanie Caloia …Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Stefanie. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Stefanie: At the SAA annual meeting in Chicago, I placed my resume at the Networking Cafe, but honestly did not expect anything to come of it. My future…
Uncategorized
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 $…
Interviews, Success Stories
Elizabeth Hinton …Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Elizabeth. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Elizabeth: The job was forwarded to me through one of the listservs I’m a part of. It was either through my alma mater, or Tennessee New Members Roundtable. Naomi: …
Interviews, Success Stories
Jennifer Ho …Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Jennifer. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Jennifer: In my Google Reader account, I had subscriptions to dozens of job feeds, in addition to looking at INALJ most days of the week. Each time I applied…
Articles
Qraig’s Quest – New Year’s Resolutions – Resolve to Solve the Job Search
New Year’s Resolutions – Resolve to Solve the Job Search by Qraig de Groot All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily With another new year upon us, it’s time to rack your brain and search your soul trying to come up with a list of resolutions that you might want to…
Interviews, Success Stories
Nicole LaMoreaux …Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Nicole. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Nicole: I found my job with FIT through the college’s website. I started library school with the hope that I would one day become a fashion librarian and working…
Uncategorized
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!