My interview with success story, Jess Naomi: How did you find your current job? Jess: I found it on the Simmons College GSLIS JobLine. I had been searching very seriously for several months, and unsuccessfully applying to a lot of public libraries before I decided to branch out and apply for a special library job.…
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Jess Moore …In Six
My interview with INALJ success story, Jess Naomi: How did you find your current job? Jess: Through INALJ Jobs Page for Virginia. Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Jess: Probably the Rust Library, which is in the Loudoun County Public Library system. It was doing most if not all the positive things we discussed…
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Kevin Davey …In Six
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…