Part 1: Library School, Work Experiences, & General Resources Part 2: Searching & Applying for Positions Getting to the phone/video interview stage is an awesome feeling! Someone liked your application enough to want to talk to you! Coming off great in your phone/video interview really comes down to preparation, so now’s the time! Preparing for interview questions This … More Job Search, Part 3: Phone and Video Interviews
Part 1: Library School, Work Experiences, & General Resources Obviously every job search is different, even within librarianship, even with academic librarianship! So I won’t try to speak to every type of librarianship or specialty. Head over to Hack Library School for a wider variety of info, folks (of particular interest: the “After Library School” section of … More Job Search, Part 2: Searching & Applying for Positions
As promised I’m finally doing a small series on my job search process this past year, in the hopes of providing a helpful resource to LIS students and emerging professionals. Part 1 needs to be about library school and student work experience. These were crucial for my later success. However, I’m assuming most people reading this … More Job Search, Part 1: Library School, Work Experiences, & General Resources
I finally get to share something with you all that I’ve been working on since I started in my current positions: Adventures in Access! Adventures in Access! is an interactive tutorial designed for the use of employees at my library. Its purpose is to provide a realistic simulation of a patron who has contacted us … More Interactive Training Tutorial – Adventures in Access!
You’ll be happy to find out that my new job will occasionally still involve exhibit projects! Just this month I was able to help the wonderful Biosciences Librarian, Kelli Trei, create and install an exhibit in the Main Library about the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). The BHL is a fabulous group of libraries that have come together to … More Main Library Exhibit
I’m finally finished with my grant project! Over a year ago I spearheaded a proposal for grant funding for a marketing/promotion project at my library. We were able to secure the funding and it has been a long process to figure out exactly what we want, design it, and acquire the deliverables. But just yesterday … More Marketing Grant Project
This year I’m participating in the Hack Library School Library Student Day in the Life event! It involves library school students blogging, Tumbling, or tweeting about their day; the purpose is for prospective library students to get a peak into library school life and for current library students to connect with each other! It’s been … More Hack Library School Library Student Day in the Life! (or #HLSDITL, for short!)
As some of you may or may not know, I write for a fantastic blog called Hack Library School. It is a great place where library students from all over the country tackle questions like: “What will the information professions be next year if we define it for ourselves today? If we had a voice … More Hack Library School – the book!
Nicole Helregel 