{"id":27387,"date":"2013-06-12T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=27387"},"modified":"2019-01-04T08:02:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:02:58","slug":"lupita-sebastian-obrien-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=27387","title":{"rendered":"Lupita Sebastian-O’Brien …Success Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

This interview is over 1 year old and may no longer be up to date or reflect the interviewee\/interviewees’ positions<\/span><\/h2>\n

All Jobs<\/span><\/b> for INALJ can be found here: https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=1441<\/a> Updated daily
\nNaomi House\u2019s interview with success story Lupita.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"lupitasb\"<\/a>Naomi:<\/b>\u00a0 How did you find your current job?
\nLupita:<\/b>\u00a0 So let take a crack at this…
\nHow I found my job… \u00a0Even before library school I had seen an add for a library assistant job and found out about the Bccls library job site:http:\/\/www.bccls.org\/buckles\/jobs.shtml<\/a>\u00a0 It’s a really good site if you live in the Bergen county area of New Jersey. \u00a0After school I would look at the\u00a0inalj<\/a>, and \u00a0bccls<\/a> and although I sent out many many cover letters and resumes, I only received four interviews (two of which were with the Library I’m with now).<\/p>\n

Naomi:<\/b>\u00a0 Favorite library you have been to?
\nLupita:<\/b>\u00a0 My favorite library visit was to the Cloisters Library<\/a> in New York. \u00a0I went with a school group. \u00a0We saw some beautiful collections, we had a tour of the tower room and \u00a0and saw amazing views.<\/p>\n

Naomi:<\/b>\u00a0 Favorite book?
\nLupita:<\/b>\u00a0 One of my favorite books is “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information<\/a>” by Edward Tufte. \u00a0I’m visual so I love that graphics can be used to understand information. \u00a0And when one of my professors mentioned it in library school I knew I was in the right place.<\/p>\n

Naomi:<\/b>\u00a0 Favorite thing about libraries\/ library technology?
\nLupita:<\/b>\u00a0 My favorite thing about libraries is that we are in a time of transformation and re-invention. \u00a0Exciting times full of questions and challenges which is usually the edge of where great advances happen. \u00a0I look forward to seeing where an information commons takes us and learning and being more responsive to our community and our patrons. \u00a0Especially since in order to help them we will need to learn about new technologies, which is always fun.<\/p>\n

Naomi:<\/b>\u00a0 Any websites or feeds or blogs we should be following?
\nLupita:<\/b>\u00a0 Groups I follow: danah boyd<\/a> and Jane McGonigal<\/a> on twitter. \u00a0There are more but those are the most fun.<\/p>\n

Naomi:<\/b>\u00a0 Best piece of job hunting advice?
\nLupita:<\/b>\u00a0 So the thing I think helped me land my job was to go to the interview as if I already had the job. \u00a0Not in an egotistical or snooty way, but just get really prepared. \u00a0So if I really had the job, I would need to know what “my” library was up to. \u00a0To this end, I became\u00a0really\u00a0\u00a0intimate with their web site. \u00a0Next I did a demographic analysis on the town so I would get a more in depth picture of who “our” patrons were and asked questions at the two interviews that would help me get an idea of how to serve them better. \u00a0I think being really prepared and going in what that kind of mind set was what helped set me apart. \u00a0Also being fluent in Spanish did not hurt since the Hispanic population in Lodi, New Jersey has really grown.<\/p>\n

Although I am just starting my first position in a public library, as a youth services and children’s librarian at the Lodi Memorial Library in New Jersey, I have worked in two special libraries and was a library assistant in grammar school placing the thick mylar protective covers on books for the school library collection.\u00a0 So you could say I got the bug, from way, way back!<\/i><\/p>\n

I am originally from NYC but lived part of the year in Mexico, while growing up, and moved to New Jersey as a teen.\u00a0 I have BA from Douglass College where I majored in fine arts and minored in anthropology.\u00a0 I speak and write Spanish fluently.\u00a0 I did my internship at the Tamiment Library at NYU where I worked with printed ephemera and photographs belonging to American labor union and socialist groups.<\/i><\/p>\n

I love learning about new technology and social science innovations that will help libraries and take care of a husband and a cat.<\/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 Lupita. Naomi:\u00a0 How did you find your current job? Lupita:\u00a0 So let take a crack at this… How…<\/p>\n

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