{"id":972,"date":"2013-05-22T08:28:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T12:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2019-01-13T18:57:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T00:57:41","slug":"naomi-house-in-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"Naomi House &#8230;In Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: #fcfc29;\">This interview is over 1 year old and may no longer be up to date or reflect the interviewee\/interviewees&#8217; positions<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/naomih.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-973\" title=\"naomih\" src=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/naomih-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A self-directed interview \ud83d\ude09 Reposted from 12\/29\/2011 and 1\/27\/12<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A snapshot of my vision for INALJ from 2011<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your dream job and why?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Naomi:<\/strong> This! I love being able to do reference by day and nights and weekends focusing on INALJ.com, FB, Twitter and LinkedIn. I would love to grow INALJ this next year and be able to employ librarians. We shall see &#8230; Oh and there would be a component of travel (both national and international) involved \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you could take any of your hobbies and create a job out of them or integrate it into your job what would it be? And how?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Naomi: <\/strong> I would take INALJ and make it a company and I may still be able to do this. Right now we have over 50+ volunteers and the day I can cut them a paycheck will be a happy day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite library you have been to?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Naomi: <\/strong> I really do need to start visiting international libraries when I go on vacation. But here in the US I love the <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.libraryweb.org\/central.aspx?id=475520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rochester, NY Central Library<\/a> (the two branches across the street from one another). On one side of the street is the gorgeous, dark wood old library and on the other side is a fabulous modern library. I also miss the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ithacalibrary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ithaca College Library<\/a> which has a serene view from the top floor and lots of light and open spaces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite book?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Naomi: <\/strong> <em>Possession<\/em> by A.S. Byatt. Many of my other favorites fall into a category I call &#8216;Kismet&#8217; which means they were just the book I needed to read right when I read them. So <em>American Gods<\/em> by Neil Gaiman, <em>Good Omens<\/em> by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, <em>The Twilight Zone Companion<\/em>, <em>The Name of the Rose<\/em> by Umberto Eco, <em>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<\/em> by Margaret Atwood, <em>Briar Rose<\/em> by Jane Yolen, <em>Zel<\/em> by Donna Jo Napoli and the <em>Herculeah Jones series<\/em> by Betsy Byars all resonated with me for completely different reasons at different times in my life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite thing about libraries\/ library technology?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Naomi: <\/strong> Databases! I am a database troll and have multiple library cards in my wallet just so I can always access a ton of databases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best piece of job hunting advice?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Naomi: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You have to sell yourself.<\/li>\n<li>You must give up any sense of entitlement in order to make the process less painful for yourself.<\/li>\n<li>Sitting around mad at the world because you put out 100+ resumes and no-one got back to you isn&#8217;t helping you and this needs to be about what will help you, <strong><em>not what will make you feel better<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Ask yourself what your goal is: do you want a job or a specific type of job?<\/li>\n<li>And learn to market yourself.<\/li>\n<li>Ask for tons of feedback and get involved virtually with LinkedIn groups.<\/li>\n<li>Remember this isn&#8217;t personal to anyone but you.<\/li>\n<li>Companies\/Colleges\/Agencies have to look for the best candidate for them.<\/li>\n<li>Your job is to convince them it is you.<\/li>\n<li>Knowing this is a job, sometimes a second or third job, and having realistic expectations won&#8217;t make you happy but may take away a lot of the unnecessary and unhelpful stress within the process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Naomi House, MLIS is a Reference, Marketing and Acquisitions Librarian for a government contractor at a federal library. She loves traveling and cooking Pakistani food with her husband, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khanmoving.com\">Sana<\/a>. She spent five years as a library staff member before finding her current job on the DC \/SLA listserv while only half way through her <a href=\"http:\/\/comminfo.rutgers.edu\/master-of-library-and-information-science\/program-information.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Masters program at Rutgers<\/a>. She founded INALJ (I Need a Library Job) with the help of Elizabeth Leonard, as a way of sharing the jobs she was still receiving -sort of a way of paying her good fortune forward.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This interview is over 1 year old and may no longer be up to date or reflect the interviewee\/interviewees&#8217; positions A self-directed interview \ud83d\ude09 Reposted from 12\/29\/2011 and 1\/27\/12 A snapshot of my vision for INALJ from 2011 What is your dream job and why? Naomi: This! 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