Category: professional development
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Hints for Job Searchers – The Interview
Awhile back I wrote a post based on my recent experiences serving on many, many library search committees with the hope of providing guidance to those seeking work in libraryland (and hopefully making one small drop in the bucket to end some of the more frustrating mistakes I’ve noticed). I wanted to talk today about…
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Hints for Job Searchers
I’ve been on many library search committees in my eight years as a librarian, and about half of them have been in the last two years. After looking at that many resumes (so. many. resumes.) and going through that many interviews (so. many. interviews.) there are a few things that happen again and again that never…
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Planning a Website Re-Vamp, Part I
Before I started working in the Sonoma State University Library, I knew re-designing the Library website was going to be a priority. Everyone made it clear to me during the interview process that they weren’t happy with the site and that it had historically been one of the bigger challenges in the Library. Fixing the…
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LITA National Forum
Last week I attended the LITA National Forum in Columbus, Ohio. This was by far one of the best conferences I’ve attended. It reminded me of the regional library conferences in the Northwest area that I loved so much: small scale, and very practical. I love the smaller setting of events like this, because you…
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Supporting Librarians
In a re-cap of a Libraries Rebound event put on by OCLC Research Library Partnership, Jim Michalko briefly mentions that the phrase “embedded librarian” might not be a very good one. He argues that the phrase “enshrines ‘other-ness,’” reinforcing that the librarian is somehow separate. He suggest the phrase liaison librarian instead, but I’m not…
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Reflections on One Year at CDL
It’s hard to believe I’ve been back in California for over a year now. My one year anniversary at CDL was April 11, and it’s been a full year, with a lot of challenges, and a few bright and shining moments. My work now, and my day-to-day professional life, is very different from my previous…
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Library Week in the Life
It’s Library Day in the Life time again. I do love this project, and I love it when libday posts start appearing in my RSS feed. It’s fun to hear what other librarians do, what other jobs are like, what kinds of work and projects are happening in the field. And it’s fun for me…
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Thoughts after ALA Midwinter
I got back from ALA Midwinter on Tuesday night, and after taking a day to ponder all the things I heard and discussed over the long weekend, I wanted to quickly write up a few observations and thoughts. I’m trying to take an overall approach, rather than detailing each session I attended, as I have…
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Another Shiny New Year
Despite the fact that I’ve been a bit slow-moving into 2012, it is, in fact, here. It’s another new year, and for me, that always means time for reflection and planning. I’m kind of sad to say that in 2011, I yet again didn’t write as much as I wanted to write. Not even on…