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Happy 18th Birthday to INALJ’s Maria House!

by Naomi House, MLIS

Happy 18th Birthday to INALJ’s Maria House!

MariaHouseINALJTwo years ago my sister, Maria, turned 16 and I asked her to join my volunteers with INALJ so she could learn more about WordPress, librarianship, metadata and more. Happy to report she loves the field and is interested now in pursuing museum librarianship. I was nearly 19 when she was born and in college so I remember her entire life growing up really well. But I won’t share embarrassing stories or reminiscences; instead I just want to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Enjoy your last year of high school! Kick butt in tennis! Hang out with friends! Travel! And don’t let anyone get you down. High school is fine but life has the potential to get much, much better! Thanks for being INALJ’s metadata manager and articles editor and here is to a great new year!

Naomi House

Naomi House, MLIS, is the founder and publisher of the popular LIS jobs resource INALJ.com (formerly I Need a Library Job). Founded in October 2010 with the assistance of her fellow Rutgers classmate, Elizabeth Leonard, INALJ’s 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.com. INALJ has had over 20 Million page views and helped thousands of librarians and LIS folk 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 a month. Naomi believes that well-sourced quantity is quality in this narrow job market and INALJ reflects this many new jobs published daily. She was a 2013 Library Journal Mover & Shaker and has served on the University of Maryland iSchool Board from 2014-2017. Naomi was a Reference, Marketing and Acquisitions Librarian for a contractor at a federal library outside Washington, DC, and now lives part time in Western NY and Budapest, Hungary. She has heard of spare time but hasn’t encountered it lately. She pronounces INALJ as eye-na-elle-jay. 

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