{"id":16592,"date":"2013-04-05T08:30:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T12:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=16592"},"modified":"2019-01-13T20:04:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T02:04:35","slug":"heather-coates-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=16592","title":{"rendered":"Heather Coates… Success Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNaomi House\u2019s interview with success story Heather.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"heatherc\"<\/a>Naomi:<\/b>\u00a0 How did you find your current job?
\nHeather:<\/b>\u00a0 On the ALA Joblist<\/a>. Sadly, I was not on Twitter to benefit from INALJ<\/a> when I was job hunting.<\/p>\n

Naomi:<\/b>\u00a0 Favorite library you have been to?
\nHeather:<\/b>\u00a0 For the sheer awe of it, the Old Library at the Trinity College in Dublin<\/a>, where the Book of Kells is on display. The Long Room is the most stunning physical library space I\u2019ve experienced.<\/p>\n

Naomi:<\/b>\u00a0 Favorite book?
\nHeather:<\/b>\u00a0 I don’t typically have favorites, but one book has been an exception for several years now –\u00a0Confederacy of Dunces<\/em> by John Kennedy Toole.<\/p>\n

Naomi:<\/b>\u00a0 Favorite thing about libraries\/ library technology?
\nHeather:<\/b>\u00a0 I love the culture of life-long learning. I still don’t know what kind of librarian I’ll be in ten years, but I know it will be challenging, fulfilling work that pushes me to learn every day.<\/p>\n

Naomi:<\/b>\u00a0 Any websites or feeds or blogs we should be following?
\nHeather:<\/b>\u00a0 Since I’m in academic library, I rely on the Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a> to keep me informed about current events and issues are effecting our institution and higher ed in general.\u00a0\u00a0Twitter is my main source of topic-specific news – I love it. My best advice is to find people who are doing what you do or want to do and follow them.<\/p>\n

Naomi:<\/b>\u00a0 Best piece of job hunting advice?
\nHeather:<\/b>\u00a0 Network, network, network. It can sometimes feel icky to market yourself, but it’s more about making personal connections with your future colleagues and building strong relationships.\u00a0Librarians are a generous and knowledgeable group of people, so make good use of it! Accept help when you need it and offer help when someone else is in need.<\/p>\n

Heather Coates has been the Digital Scholarship and Data Management Librarian at the IUPUI University Library since 2011.\u00a0Prior to joining University Library, she worked at the Indiana University Medical Library\u00a0and\u00a0as a research coordinator for clinical and behavioral psychology research teams in the IU Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry.\u00a0\u00a0These experiences prepared her to enter the exciting arena of data services, extending library support of academic research to all stages of the research life cycle. Her interests include data curation, assessment and\u00a0evaluation, evidence-based library and information practice, and the use of network analysis to evaluate scholarly communication processes.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This interview is over 1 year old and may no longer be up to date or reflect the interviewee\/interviewees’ positions All Jobs for INALJ can be found here: https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=1441 Updated daily Naomi House\u2019s interview with success story Heather. Naomi:\u00a0 How did you find your current job? Heather:\u00a0 On the ALA Joblist. Sadly, I was not…<\/p>\n

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