I’m fortunate enough to work in a library that has a pretty active new-, future-, and experienced-but-interested-in-new-librarians’ issues group (was that a parallelism win or fail? who can say?), Future Librarians and Information science Professionals, or FLIP, which was definitely one of the things that I found attractive about the…
This is the fourth and final (unless I think of some genius thing while I’m on the road) installment of my Interviewing series. If you’ve missed the earlier parts, they discussed Cover Letters, Phone Interviews, and On-Site Interviews. Again–as is probably obvious by a whole post about the presentation–this is…
This is the third part of the series I’m writing about interviewing. The first was Interviewing – Cover Letter, and the second was Interviewing – Phone Interview. As I said in the other two topics, I’m not an expert, but I’d like to share what I know, gleaned from my…
This set of posts (there will be a whole series–at least three, though I’m thinking of splitting it out further) was written while I was applying and interviewing for positions. It seemed gauche and unwise to post information about my interviewing experiences and lessons learned, even as I was learning…
I have a job! (As in, I received and signed an official, printed, mailed job offer today, which I plan to photocopy and mail back tomorrow.) But it’s not just any job—it’s precisely the kind of job I wanted to be doing, at a dynamic library, in a beautiful city,…
I make no secret of my loathing for summer classes. It isn’t the standard “I’d rather have a break,” though I suppose that factors in. Rather, it’s the inherent lack of balance. The summer semester at Pitt is 3-4 weeks (depending how you count) shorter than the other two, and…
I feel like my posts have all been coming out through the lens of the job search, lately. I mean, I try to address bigger issues, but you can probably see the thought patterns behind some of what I say… Like I mentioned before, I have started looking for jobs–and…
(I typed that “foofs of the world” and almost left it.) The Dialog event today–I hesitate to call it a “training,” since it was not focused specifically around learning to use the tool–was interesting and fairly enlightening. (Heads up to any readers in SLAPSG: we may have a Dialog tutorial…
I was in a bit of a tizzy last night, and cooler heads have reminded me that sometimes rebuttals happen. Still, the rebuttal (which made a few sweeping statements of its own, I thought) was pre-economic-downturn. The special libraries that decreased the size of the applicant pool are no longer…