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What the heck happened to INALJ?

by Naomi House, MLIS

It was a nice day, January 31st of this year.  I was sitting at McDonalds as I do, getting all set to update the daily INALJ jobs page, but I kept getting an error message. I decided the best bet would be just to get the jobs up somewhere else (my husband’s site which I use a backup the once or twice a year something happens) and try and figure out if the issue was with a WordPress plugin. The next day I got an email from my Hosting provider, seems I was massively over the space allotted in my plan.  It took a few days of back and forth but I finally decided to have the site migrated and upgrade on February 6th.  I was told the following:

  • I would have a mirror site left up (the site was still up as of Feb 6th)
  • I would be able to edit the jobs page to link to the temp site on my husband’s page
  • It would take 3 days to a week max

It turns out the overage of space being used meant the mirror site was never an option (I should have been told), and by the time they started the migration I could not edit anything.  At least they got the site back up, but not until February 15th.  So that is what happened.  I pinned a tweet to my personal twitter @inaljnaomi.  Several folks posted on ALA Think Tank and INALJ LinkedIn so I was able to share what was going on.  But though this was annoying, frustrating and a bit of a pain it is resolved.  The jobs are back where they belong and I will get more up tonight!

And INALJ is ALWAYS harvested on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine several times a month at the very least so check there for email contacts and policies, even old articles and old jobs lists.

Here is hoping the jobs found by myself and the volunteers help you find a great opportunity you might not have found otherwise!  And here is hoping this was a once-in-a-site-lifetime thing!

Cheers!

Naomi

Naomi House

Naomi House, MLIS, is the founder and publisher of the popular webzine and jobs list INALJ.com (formerly I Need a Library Job) and former CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of T160K.org, a crowdfunding platform focused on African patrimony, heritage and cultural projects. INALJ was founded in October 2010 with the assistance of her fellow Rutgers classmate, Elizabeth Leonard. Its social media presence has grown to include Facebook (retired in 2016), Twitter and a LinkedIn group, in addition to the interviews, articles and jobs found on INALJ. INALJ has had over 21 Million page hits and helped many, many thousands of librarians find employment! Through grassroots marketing, word of mouth and a real focus on exploring unconventional resources for job leads, INALJ grew from a subscription base of 20 friends to a website with over 500,000 visits in one month. Naomi believes that well-sourced quantity is quality in this narrow job market and INALJ reflects this with many new jobs published daily. She has also written for the 2011, 2012 and 2013 LexisNexis Government Info Pro and many other publications in the past decade. She presents whenever she can, including serving on three panels at the American Library Association's Annual Conference in Las Vegas; as breakout presenter at OCLC EMEA in Cape Town, South Africa; as a keynote speaker at the Virginia Library Association annual meeting; at the National Press Club in Washington DC; McGill University in Montreal, Canada; the University of the Emirates, Dubai, MLIS program and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Naomi was a Reference, Marketing and Acquisitions Librarian for a contractor at a federal library outside Washington, DC, and has been living and working in Budapest, Hungary and Western New York State. She spent years running her husband’s moving labor website, fixed and sold old houses and assisted her husband cooking delicious Pakistani food. She is preparing to re-enter the workforce and is job hunting. Her husband is now the co-editor of INALJ, a true support!  She has heard of spare time but hasn’t encountered it lately. She pronounces INALJ as eye-na-elle-jay. 

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