{"id":113513,"date":"2026-09-09T21:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=113513"},"modified":"2026-09-09T21:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:40:36","slug":"non-library-jobs-for-lis-pros-interview-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=113513","title":{"rendered":"Non-Library Jobs for LIS Pros Interview Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?page_id=3853\">Naomi House<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Non-Library Jobs for LIS Pros <strong>Interview Series<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>When the ongoing global pandemic began being taken seriously the jobs market for librarians slowed significantly as employers either stopped hiring, closed currently open positions or waited to list new jobs. This inspired me to launch 3 series of interviews with LIS professionals at all levels who have found work outside traditional libraries and internationally.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?cat=6946\"><strong>Interviews about non-Library job fields:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Launched May 25, 2020. This series focuses on introducing LIS workers to job fields they might be qualified for and unaware of, and giving them advice on breaking into those fields. Interest in these interviews helped increase traffic to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/\">INALJ.com<\/a>\u00a0by 87% since the beginning of the pandemic lockdowns.<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?cat=7071\">Interviews with LIS folk who have started their own businesses<\/a>:\u00a0<\/b>Launched August 4, 2020.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?cat=7048\"><b>Interviews with LIS folk who have found work abroad<\/b><\/a>: Launched June 24, 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Naomi House \u00a0Non-Library Jobs for LIS Pros Interview Series When the ongoing global pandemic began being taken seriously the jobs market for librarians slowed significantly as employers either stopped hiring, closed currently open positions or waited to list new jobs. This inspired me to launch 3 series of interviews with LIS professionals at all levels&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=113513\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WoMK-twR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-03-at-10.29.06-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113516,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113513\/revisions\/113516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}