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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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: …
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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…
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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…
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David Brown … Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story David. Naomi: How did you find your current job? David: I found my current Library Assistant job using BAYNET, but have used INALJ for job hunting advice from the beginning. Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? David: …
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Mandy Babirad …Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Mandy. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Mandy: I moved to New York City a couple of months ago shortly after I graduated with my MSIS. I didn’t have a job lined up, I had no…
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Kristen Squire …Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Kristen. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Kristen: I was told about the position by a friend of mine, who had received the notice through a local library job listserv. I ignored him, because it wasn’t…
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Emily Aldridge …Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Emily. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Emily: I found my current position by scouring the listservs as well as the state postings, including the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Naomi: Favorite library you have…
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Hava Lyon …Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House’s interview with success story Hava. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Hava: Well, I currently work at the Twin Falls Public Library as the Circulation Manager; I was originally hired as a Circulation Clerk but then was promoted almost three…
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Barbara Walker …Success Story
All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https://inalj.com/?p=1441 Updated daily 🙂 Naomi House’s interview with success story Barbara. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Barbara: My former lead librarian let me know about an email she had received stating Dallas ISD had several openings for librarians. Since school had already begun, it…
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Dina Schuldner …Success Story
Naomi House’s interview with success story Dina. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Dina: I worked at the Mineola Memorial Library as an Adult Page for two years until I received my degree, my NYS Public Library Certification, and received a position on the Nassau County Civil Service Librarian I list by taking…
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Kristin Moo …Success Story
Naomi House’s interview with success story, Kristin. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Kristin: I met a CPL branch manager while working on a class project. As I interviewed him for my assignment, we talked a bit about my career goals and experience. He ended up recommending me to the coordinator of the…
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Patrica Finnerty …Success Story
Naomi House’s interivew with Patrica Finnerty, Outreach Librarian for the Pioneer Library System in Canandaigua, NY. Naomi: How did you find your current job? Pat: On the local regional library council website. It was also listed on INALJ as well. Thanks Naomi! Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Pat: My college library at St.…
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Rachel Somerville …In Six
My interview with INALJ success story Rachel Naomi: How did you find your current job? Rachel: I heard about and became interested in the company through a friend and then saw the job posting on INALJ! Other places I looked were ALA Joblist, Indeed.com, and a few local listservs. Naomi: Favorite library you have been…
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Monique Lowe …Success Story
My interview with success story, Monique Naomi: How did you find your current job? Monique: Since a couple months before graduating (August 2011) I put a great deal of focus on the job hunt. I utilized my school’s employment site (iTrack), list servs and other employment websites. I was still working part time for U of M…
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Liz Thompson …Success Story
My interview with success story, Liz Naomi: How did you find your current job? Liz: I scoured the online resources (INALJ and ala.org to name but a few) weekly. I also volunteered for as many professional events and groups as my time allowed. I’ve heard that professional networking is crucial to finding and being offered…
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Zoe Fisher …Success Story
My interview with success story, Zoe Naomi: How did you find your current job? Zoe: I saw the job posting on the ACRL-NW (Association of College & Research Libraries – Northwest) listserv. I wasn’t sure whether or not to apply at first because I knew I’d have to relocate, but I decided to give it…
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Lauren Linn …Success Story
My interview with success story, Lauren Naomi: How did you find your current job? Lauren: I worked in higher education prior to returning to school for my MSIS and always wanted to continue my professional career in that environment. After graduation from my program, I actively pursued positions in academic libraries but also monitored all…
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Benjamin Nanamaker …Success Story
My interview with success story, Benjamin Naomi: How did you find your current job? Benjamin: I can’t remember which of the countless number of job posting RSS feeds I found my current job advertised on, but I do remember where I found the bulk of them. Last summer, Jazmin Idakaar posted a link on her…
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Rich Clegg …Success Story
My interview with success story, Rich Naomi: How did you find your current job? Rich: Although I used INALJ to apply to many positions, searching simplyhired.com was how I found my current position. The job description was posted in INALJ about a day after I found it searching SimplyHired. Naomi: Favorite library you have been…
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Rosalyn Alleman …Success Story
My interview with success story, Rosalyn Naomi: How did you find your current job? Rosalyn : A former superior approached me earlier this year about taking on a customer service assessment and improvement project in the FMCSA. When I found out my contract at the NTL was ending September 30, I followed up on it, and was hired in October by Phase…
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Jonathan Manton …Success Story
My interview with success story, Jonathan Naomi: How did you find your current job? Jonathan: – Code4lib jobs website (http://jobs.code4lib.org/) Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Jonathan: – Difficult to pick one. It would be between the Bodleian Library in Oxford UK, Sterling Memorial Library at Yale, or Green Library at Stanford. Naomi: Favorite…
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Elena Gleason …Success Story
My interview with success story, Elena Naomi: How did you find your current job? Elena: The story of how I found my job is pretty ordinary, which just goes to show that you don’t need to have an “in” or a special approach in order to land a job. When I was job hunting, I…
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Jonathan Harrison …Success Story
My interview with success story, Jonathan Naomi: How did you find your current job? Jonathan: Scouring my current workplace’s job page. Already being a worker, even though I was quarter time, got me an interview which lead to me being hired. Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Jonathan: I would say the downtown public…
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Scott Wiebensohn …Success Story
My interview with success story, Scott Naomi: How did you find your current job? Scott: I found my East St. Louis Community College Center Library Director position through a professional contact on LinkedIn and my Learning Resource Center Manager job at Sanford-Brown College – Collinsville through an old college roommate. Yes, I work a full-time…
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Erin Wenz …In Six
My interview with INALJ volunteer and success story, Erin Naomi: How did you find your current job? Erin: I have been lucky to work with the wonderful people at my current employer for the past few years. When a professional librarian position opened up, I jumped at the chance to apply. Of course, the position was…
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Sarah Keller …In Six
My interview with success story, Sarah Naomi: How did you find your current job? Sarah: I found my current job through a combination of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners job listings http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/index.php and indeed.com. But I was going https://inalj.com a variety of RSS feeds, and going to various town/library/school websites to make sure I…
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Yandee Vazquez …In Six
My interview with success story and INALJ volunteer, Yandee! Naomi: How did you find your current job? Yandee: I found my current position through a hodgepodge of library listservs, job finding websites, and any random page of information-related jobs that I put together over the course of 2 years. Pouring over the list of jobs…
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Lydia Redding …In Six
My interview with success story (and former classmate), Lydia Naomi: How did you find your current job? Lydia: I actually first saw the posting for my job on INALJ, which I check religiously. I typically start with the INALJ daily email from the day before to check the newest postings. Then I visit the Pennsylvania…
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Robin Rockman …In Six
My interview with success story and INALJ volunteer, Robin! Naomi: How did you find your current job? Robin: BCCLS, which is a large consortium in New Jersey of mostly northern NJ libraries has a great and very active Jobs board. I would say 90% of the jobs I applied to and interviewed with were through…
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Tanya Koukeyan …In Six
My interview with success story, Tanya Naomi: How did you find your current job? Tanya: I set an Indeed.com job alert for “Prospect Researcher” and it popped into my inbox one day. Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Tanya: It’s still my hometown library, the Pasadena Main Branch Library. The walls are mahogany-paneled,…
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Kathy Elliott …In Six
My interview with success story, Kathy Naomi: How did you find your current job? Kathy: As soon as I was accepted into an MLIS program, I joined the San Diego Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA-SD). And it paid off. I met San Diego Zoo Global librarian Talitha Matlin, asked if she needed volunteers,…
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Ashley Stevens …In Six
My interview with success story, Ashley Naomi: How did you find your current job? Ashley: I found my position through Archives Gig which then redirected me to USAjobs.gov. Naomi: Favorite library you have been to? Ashley: The Seattle Public Library. I love the architectural design of the building, their use of library-related objects as art,…