{"id":3907,"date":"2013-06-25T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2019-01-03T17:37:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T23:37:50","slug":"ricardo-figueroa-in-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=3907","title":{"rendered":"Ricardo Figueroa …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

My interview with INALJ <\/a>success story, Ricardo<\/em><\/p>\n

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Naomi: <\/strong>How did you find your current job?
\nRicardo: <\/strong>I found my current job using INALJ<\/a>. \u00a0I had been keeping up with the listserv religiously in the last year.<\/p>\n

Naomi: <\/strong>Favorite library you have been to?
\nRicardo: <\/strong>This is a hard question, I feel that main branch libraries in cities are often an extension or a representative of that city and what it has to offer. I would have to say the Seattle public library<\/a> for its modernity and pride in Northwest Culture and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh<\/a> main branch in Oakland because of it architecture and involvement in the community as well as it being one of the places that solidified my interest in the information field when I was in grad school.<\/p>\n

Naomi: <\/strong>Favorite book?
\nRicardo: <\/strong>I can’t just answer with one, I can honestly say I have two that I always return to. \u00a0Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em>, I never cease to be amazed at Adam’s whit, sarcasm, and linguistic playfulness. \u00a0My other favorite book has written anonomously in Spain, and is called El Lazarillo de Tormes<\/em>, its also puckish like The Hitchhiker’s Guide, and was one of my favorite tales as a child living in Spain and Argentina.<\/p>\n

Naomi: <\/strong>Favorite thing about libraries\/ library technology?
\nRicardo: <\/strong>I think for me the thing I love the most about libraries is that it is a place where I can let my mind wander and explore, and bounce from one subject to another. Many people say, “well you can do that on the internet” and while that can be very true, in a library I feel you can make things more tangible.<\/p>\n

Naomi: <\/strong>Any websites or feeds or blogs we should be following?
\nRicardo: <\/strong>I read the Huffington Post<\/a> a lot, and Forbes as Library Advocates. \u00a0However, I also just use news websites in my case, the Seattle Times or BBC, as a spring board into researching interesting topics.<\/p>\n

Naomi: <\/strong>Best piece of job hunting advice?
\nRicardo: <\/strong>First off, Patience, secondly, Persistence, thirdly, Networking, and forthly, don’t let rejection define your self worth. \u00a0Don’t feel bad if the job that you land isn’t what you wanted, look at it from a point of pragmatism. It will be a source of income while you look for something else. \u00a0Try and sell yourself, you are the sum of all your experiences.<\/p>\n

I am a Bilingual Software Support Specialist with ProQuest, Serials Solutions, Seattle, WA. I was in born in Boston, MA but moved around a bit as a child having lived in Spain, Argentina, Czech and Slovak Republics and then finally spending the majority of my teenage years in the San Francisco Bay area. I graduated from Towson University where I studied Spanish Literature and Classical Piano performance in 2003. From there, I worked as a bilingual information specialist for the Epilepsy Foundation’s Resource Library, a Records Manager for the EPA, and various other support rolls at the University of Washington and University of Pittsburgh. I completed my MLIS at the University of Pittsburgh in August of 2011. My experiences living in other countries and seeing different libraries and the way other places use, control, and relate to information was one of my reasons for getting an MLIS degree. Currently I am working for ProQuest’s Serials Solutions in Seattle, WA where I assist Serials Librarians in North and South America to manage their electronic subscriptions, databases, and trouble shoot library software. When I am not at work, I am an avid swimmer, classical pianist, and love to practice and study foreign languages. <\/em><\/p>\n

Previously published 8\/16\/12 and entitled Ricardo Figueroa …In Six<\/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 My interview with INALJ success story, Ricardo Naomi: How did you find your current job? Ricardo: I found my current job using INALJ. \u00a0I had been keeping up with the listserv religiously in the last…<\/p>\n

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