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Hurried notes from job-search land

I had a phone interview today! Hopefully the head cold that’s been with me since this weekend didn’t make my voice too nasal. And another phone interview for a different job is coming up in a few weeks. The great thing about iPods is that you can make up a playlist for every occasion. In […]

Public speaking engagement!

I’ve just had a paper proposal accepted at the Questioning Authority 2008 conference, upcoming in March at the University of Michigan. The conference is organized around the theme of the authority of digital information; I’m going to be talking about authority control and LibraryThing.  Very exciting. Now I have to get cracking on actually writing […]

Career guidance from science-fiction TV shows

Not long ago I came up with a career-inclinations quiz question, a way of identifying what one wants to do. Imagine that you and a bunch of other people, from various walks of life, are stranded on an island* — or, if you prefer, sent off to start a colony on an uninhabited planet.** Assume […]

Job-hunting and New Year’s resolutions

In a little over six months, cross fingers and knock on wood, I’ll be finished library school and have another master’s degree to my name. And, since the average job search takes about six months, I’m kicking off my post-MSLIS job search in earnest with the new year. I’ve put together an online portfolio, I’ll […]

Small quandary

I’ve been assembling an online portfolio, partly for demonstration purposes (for a talk I’ll be giving) and partly for future job-hunting. I’ve got links or citations to a bunch of writing, formal and informal, library-oriented and literature-oriented. I’ve been thinking of sending potential portfolio-readers to a handful of posts here, particularly the series I did […]

My big news

As you may have surmised from the hypothetical location question I posted recently, I’m moving. And now that plans for the move are officially underway, I’ll spill the beans. I’ve decided to go for my master’s in library and information science, and I’ll be starting as a new MLIS student at Drexel University in the […]

Back to the drawing board

I didn’t get the job after all. Rejections are never fun. Though I will say that the search committee was admirably fast about getting back to me, and I wish all search committees behaved with as much courtesy and consideration toward the candidates they don’t choose, because a prompt rejection is so much better than […]

Announcement

I have a job interview in two weeks! Very, very excited. I can’t reveal the details, but it’s for a job I’d be very happy to have, and I think it’s rather a good sign that the job talk topic coincides almost perfectly with a topic I’ve been mulling in my head for months. I’m […]

If only…

Now if only I had specialized in the Romantic period rather than the early modern, and if only I had major work experience in special collections, I would be all over this job in a heartbeat. I’m not a match for it, but still: curating a Shelley collection! At the New York Public Library! How […]

Greetings from an undisclosed location

I’ve arrived at the hotel where I’ll be staying for tomorrow’s job interview at Further School (as opposed to Nearer School, where I interview next week). I don’t want to say more about where I currently am, since the details of job searches are sensitive information, but I will say that the weather’s absolutely beautiful, […]