by Alphild Dick, Senior Editor Please Remain Seated: 5 Tips for Dealing With Coworker Turbulence When we train to be librarians, we talk a lot about how to work with patrons. Libraries are people places, and it’s easy to get jazzed up about a career spent helping people. However, libraries are people places beyond patrons;…
By Kate Kosturski, MLSIS, Canada and International INALJ Volunteer Coordinator Fun for all that librarians call their favorite time of year! (Now you have the song from A Charlie Brown Christmas stuck in your head. Sorry about that. Okay, maybe not ) Much like the Golden Globes kick off the film awards season, January…
by Caitlin Bailey, MLIS Rare books; not just for dusty people I started out trying to write a post about why I like rare books. Then I realized it was just as long-winded and wordy as the rare book blogs that I dislike and go out of my way not to imitate on my own…
by Lauren Bourdages, Head Editor, INALJ Ontario How I try to compete with Masters holding Librarians as a Library Technician As someone actively looking for a full time position, preferably in a library related to education in some way, I’ve noticed something about the current job market in our industry. It’s not a new piece…
by Lauren Bourdages, Head Editor, INALJ Ontario Professional Associations for Canadian LIS Professionals Professional Associations (PAs) are something we’ve all heard about, if only in that we’ve heard about the American Library Association (ALA) because of the fact that all MLIS programs in North America have to be accredited by them. PAs aren’t just about…
***Want to find ALL our jobs? They all live at this link, INALJ Daily Jobs*** Jobs, Hope, and Community by Amy Nickless. I’m not a INALJ “success story”, but maybe in the future I will be. However, that doesn’t mean I don’t recognize the value of the site and its efforts. Naomi House did a…
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…
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…
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…