Career Paths They Don’t Tell You About: Building Experience by Working as a Pool Librarian by Emily Weak When I started library school (with no library experience, mind you), here is how I thought my career would go: I would quit my non-library job within six months, get a paraprofessional job in a library, finish school in two years,…
by Emily Weak I was one of those people who lucked out and had an internship turn into a paid job. An awesome paid job at the special-est of special libraries. It started out entry level, and then I was promoted to library assistant within two months. I worked there through my last year at SLIS, and then spent another…
by Stacey Nordlund In early February, 2012, I attended an Ontario Library Association conference session on the topic of interview skills. The presentation was given by a public librarian, Yvonne Patch, from the Hamilton Public Library, and an academic librarian, Jim Brett, of the University of Guelph Library. The session was informative and the presenters’ recommendations are an excellent starting…
by Amanda Choi Put a group of LIS students together and inevitably talk turns to the much anticipated and much dreaded job search. In this tough economy, horror stories abound and it is easy for those of us interested in working at academic libraries to become pessimistic before even sending out that first application. But how much of our talk…
by Chelsea Kirkland This is a story about how I found my first paid library job. But it’s also about finding my professional self through an exploration of professional ethics and personal convictions. As it turns out, the two are much more strongly linked than I originally thought. As I work my way through my MLIS, I’ve fielded a number…