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Life
Posted in Career, Personal on Saturday, April 5, 2008 | No Comments »
My life lately has been a whirlwind. After been out with a nasty cold for a week and a half, I’m wrapping up two internships, with multiple projects each. My husband got the tenure track job of his dreams, and we’re preparing to move. For the first time in my life, I’m contemplating setting down [...]
Change of perspective
Posted in Career, Personal on Friday, February 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday was one of my volunteer days at the Halldór Laxness Library at the Scandinavia House. At one point a patron came in and asked the floor attendant a question she couldn’t answer. She referred him to me, saying “She’s the librarian.”
That stopped me momentarily. I’d thought of myself as a volunteer, since my contacts [...]
Knowing where to aim is good
Posted in Career, People, Word soup on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 | No Comments »
On Sunday I found out where my husband is going to apply for jobs. I will, therefore, also start looking at open jobs in California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, New York (state – we’re so going to be out of the city!), Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington (state). My favorite, merely on the basis [...]
First line of service
Posted in Career, People, Reference, Service, Studies on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Stephen Abram quotes data from New Paradigm (via YPulse) about what the NextGens want.
By this definition, I fall somewhere between Stephen and the Next Gens. (By another I’ve seen, I’m definitely Gen Y.) Whatever the case, I certainly find a lot of the Next Gen ideas appealing.
Stephen says (italicized comments are his):
They want to be [...]
After wrapping up my summer studies, visiting relatives in Europe, hosting relatives in NYC, and starting a part-time library job (yay!), I’m back in school. Well, technically school starts next week for me, but other classes have been meeting for almost two weeks. I will also start my internship next week. It’s going to be [...]
I can has internship!
Posted in Academic, Career, Cataloging, Reference, Studies on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 | No Comments »
This morning I had an interview for an internship with the Assistant Director of the Bank Street College of Education Library. We chatted, and she showed me around. The library is not big, but meticulously taken care of. There’s an especially impressive collection of children’s material in a variety of formats. The staff is friendly, [...]
Application excitement
Posted in Career, Cataloging, Scary, Studies on Friday, July 13, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been searching for an internship site for my Seminar & Practicum class this fall. Today I made an appointment to interview next week at a college library near where I live. They mostly have programs in education, which doesn’t quite match my background. Otherwise their library services seem thorough, thoughtful, and extensive. I’m very [...]
Mission: To go out and mingle
Posted in Career, Conferences, People, Scary, Travel on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Like the author of Chronicles of Bean, I have a hard time mingling fluently. Two days ago, I decided to stop worrying and registered for the Internet Librarian 2007 conference in Monterey, CA in October. I’m excited: the program has almost too many interesting panels and talks, I’ll get to hear some people whose blogs [...]
Free library-related eLearning sites (library 2.0)
Posted in Career, Library 2.0, Searching on Monday, June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Discovered via Stephen’s Lighthouse (Jun 11, 2007):
A listing of learning resources for Library 2.0 and related professional development. I’m going to be using this list!
