By Kaia MacLeod (Follow us on LinkedIn) Oftentimes, I use a 2021 job posting for a Canadian National Film Board Librarian as an example of requirements versus skills when talking to current MLIS students. As someone with a film degree, there was a chance I could become a film librarian but one of the job requirementsContinue reading “Different Skills in Your Librarianship Path: Art Tours and Cataloguing”
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Postcards from the Gender War: Job Hunting as a Trans Early-Career Librarian
By Ezekiel Amari McGee (Follow us on LinkedIn) For the past year, watching the news often feels like watching a Hitchcock film—you know something awful’s coming, it’s just a matter of when. While we all can certainly take our pick of the various horrors plaguing our world, as a genderqueer person I tend to be mostContinue reading “Postcards from the Gender War: Job Hunting as a Trans Early-Career Librarian”
Work Life Balance, Guilty Mom Syndrome
By Itunu Sofidiya (Follow us on LinkedIn) I am the first to admit that I completely understand why many people don’t want to have kids. I have a ten-year-old son, who I absolutely adore. However, mommying while working is difficult and expensive. I guess expensive is relative, because kids don’t have to bankrupt you. However, as a parent,Continue reading “Work Life Balance, Guilty Mom Syndrome”
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Me and My Law Librarian Friends But Were Afraid to Ask: Avery Vinson
By Shira Megerman (Follow us on LinkedIn) In the fifth installment in this series, I speak with Avery Vinson, Legal Research Professor & Student Services Specialist at the University of Florida School of Law, on becoming a law librarian. 1. What attracted you to becoming a law librarian? I give all the credit to Avery Le,Continue reading “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Me and My Law Librarian Friends But Were Afraid to Ask: Avery Vinson”
From L.A. Law to The Matrix
By Mike Martinez (Follow us on LinkedIn) There is no doubt that our biases, experiences, how we process information, all play a part in our personal narrative and journey. I remember being young and naïve in my perception of the law. I was influenced by Atticus Finch but growing up in the 80’s, I also tookContinue reading “From L.A. Law to The Matrix”
Just A Librarian Doing Indian Law
By Rebecca Plevel (Follow us on LinkedIn) Regardless of where I am working and teaching, I am and will be a librarian doing Indian law. That passion arises from both my heritage (I am a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation), and my work in and around Indian Country in Arizona for 30+ years. It alsoContinue reading “Just A Librarian Doing Indian Law”
Different Strokes for Different Folks
By Rebecca Potance (Follow us on LinkedIn) Recently, the Governor of Pennsylvania signed an Executive Order removing four year degree requirements for numerous state jobs. Some people saw this as part of a larger trend in this country of emphasizing skills over degrees in hiring. Unfortunately, someone I know lambasted the decision on social media, claimingContinue reading “Different Strokes for Different Folks”