Category: Professionalism
Posted on December 12, 2018
by Jeffrey
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A few weeks ago, working the circulation desk was becoming very difficult for me. Which is a bad thing, as a public services librarian. I’m certain that I was suffering a certain amount of public services burnout. What I wasn’t certain about at the…
Posted on November 30, 2018
by Jeffrey
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Last year, I was approached by someone who wanted me to contribute to their new librarian website. Flattered, I jumped at the chance. I began trading emails with the site’s owner and looking at his site. We talked about what his site’s purpose was…
Category: Job Searching, Professional Development, Professionalism, ReflectionTags: Academic Librarianship, Academic Libraries, Interviews, Job Searching, Kermit the Frog, Librarian, Librarianship, Library, Muppets, Public Librarianship, Public Libraries
Posted on November 5, 2018
by Jeffrey
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We are part of an amazing profession built on helping others. As I’ve been pondering my next steps in the profession and what my place is in it (here and here) I reminded myself that I don’t have to struggle with the question on…
Category: Access Services, Leadership, Library Philosophy, Professional Development, Professionalism, Reflection, Service ModelsTags: Academic Librarianship, Academic Libraries, Librarian, Librarianship, Library, Library Science
Posted on September 11, 2018
by Jeffrey
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Do not apply for a job at the University of Cincinnati.
Category: Biography, Job Searching, Networking, Professional Development, Professionalism, ReflectionTags: Academic Librarianship, Academic Libraries, Interviews, Job Searching, Librarian, Librarianship, Library, OH, University of Cincinnati
Posted on September 5, 2018
by Jeffrey
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Recently, a candidate accepted a job offer to work for me. This means that for the first time since the end of June I’m fully staffed in my department. Prior to that I was fully staffed for 4-6 weeks, maybe. Other than that, from…
Category: Access Services, Job Searching, Library Philosophy, Professionalism, ReflectionTags: Academic Librarianship, Hiring Staff, HR, Human Resources, Interviews, Job Searching, Librarian, Librarianship, Library
Posted on August 9, 2018
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In reference to my last post, and maybe in continuation of it, I’m asking a question about the rest of my career. This is also a continuation of the question that I first asked in my earliest blog posts,”Why do I want to be…
Category: Access Services, Professional Conferences, Professional Development, Professionalism, ReflectionTags: Academic Librarianship, Academic Libraries, Academic Writing, Committees, Journal of Access Services, Librarian, Librarian Parlor, Librarianship, Library, Professional Conferences, Professional Development, Professional Reading, Professional Writing, Professionalism, Public Speaking, Research
Posted on July 26, 2018
by Jeffrey
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In a few short weeks the new semester begins. This will be my second academic year in this position. Over the last year there have been so many changes at work including a roughly 83% turnover in personnel in my department. That means that…
Category: Access Services, Leadership, Lifeskills, Professional Development, Professionalism, ReflectionTags: Academic Librarianship, Academic Libraries, Librarian, Librarianship, Library, Professional Conferences, Professional Development, Professional Reading, Professionalism, Purpose, Research
Posted on April 10, 2018
by Jeffrey
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We’ve all been there. You’ve got a line backed up to the exits, the phone is ringing off the hook, and a patron is standing there wanting to argue policy with you. You could be working in retail, a public library, an academic library, or…
Category: Access Services, Biography, Leadership, Library Philosophy, Lifeskills, Professionalism, Reflection, Service ModelsTags: Academic Librarianship, Academic Libraries, Communication, Customer Service, Emotionalism, Librarian, Librarianship, Library, Library Support Staff, Public Librarianship, Public Libraries, Public Services, Spok, Star Trek, Stress, Vulcans
Posted on March 14, 2018
by Jeffrey
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About six months ago I wrote about the perception of professionalism in libraries. About three months ago I began a post with the above title. That post was begun at a point of emotional nadir in which my depression had had a significant resurgence….
Posted on February 22, 2018
by Jeffrey
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It is a dark time for the library. A few months ago, one of my employees –a woman in her early forties — was diagnosed with colon cancer. This week we learned that she has passed away. I only knew the woman for a…
Category: Access Services, Leadership, Library Philosophy, Lifeskills, Professionalism, ReflectionTags: Access Services, CA, Cancer, Communication, Compassion, Death, Death in the Workplace, Dying, Grief, Grieving, Grieving in the Workplace, Leadership, Librarian, Librarianship, Library, Library Fines, Library School, Library Support Staff, Management, Stanford University
Posted on December 16, 2017
by Jeffrey
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In the spring of 2016 I was enrolled in the University of Missouri’s School of Information Science & Learning Technology’s (SISLT) Online Education certificate program. I was only in the program for that one semester before taking a new job in a new state…
Category: Access Services, Digital Humanities, Professionalism, Service ModelsTags: Academic Librarianship, Academic Libraries, Academic Writing, Access, Access Services, Books, Consortial Lending, Consortium, Librarian, Librarianship, Library, Library School, Library Science, Library Support Staff, Mizzou, MO, MOBIUS, Public Libraries, Reading, Research, SCHOLARSHIP, SISLT, Thomas Jefferson Library, UMSL
Posted on November 18, 2017
by Jeffrey
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Thanks to having an employer who actually sees the value in investing in its employees I was able to attend the Access Services Conference for the first time, this year, in Atlanta. If you’re not aware, this is a smaller conference that is dedicated…
Category: Access Services, Leadership, Networking, Professional Conferences, ProfessionalismTags: Academic Librarianship, Academic Libraries, Access, Access Services, Agnes Scott, Atlanta, Augusta University, Barriger Railway Library, Bibliometrics, CA, CalTech, Committees, CT, Dartmouth, DE, Fine-free, GA, ILL, Journal of Access Services, Knowledge Production, Leadership, Librarian, Librarianship, Library, Library Fines, Lied Library, MA, Mercantile Library, Millersville University, MO, NASA, NC, NCSU, NV, OR, Oregon State University, Overdue Fines, PA, Professional Conferences, Professionalism, Raganathan, RUSA, St. Louis, STARS, TX, U-Mass, UMSL, University of Delaware, UNLV, UTRGV, VA, Virginia Tech, VP Fair, Yale
