Well, after four interviews, three months of waiting, two offers, and one really big decision, I have officially accepted an 18-month full-time temporary contract with Southeast Regional Library in Weyburn, an hour south of Regina. The other offer was a full-time permanent position with the Provincial Library and it had a very strong appeal as […]
Following up on my promise from awhile ago to add an “About Me” page to this blog, I decided to do something a bit different than the traditional, paint-by-numbers, paragraph-long business-style bio or the fun but frivolous, paragraph-long informal version that many web sites have (er, no offense meant if that's what your web site […]
I've been fairly restrained (at least by my standards) in talking about my job hunt on this blog because I wanted to keep these details fairly low key for a variety of reasons, not least because I know that more and more employers do web searches for potential employers and you never know what might […]
Nurses, rightfully so, have one of the highest trust/respect ratings of any profession in society. But like any profession, they're not immune to frustrations with their patients.
Here's a humourous look at some of them via a forwarded e-mail my mom (a nurse) sent to Shea (also a nurse):
ENFP – “Journalist”. Uncanny sense of the motivations of others. Life is an exciting drama. 8.1% of total population. Free Jung Word Choice Test (similar to MBTI)personality tests by similarminds.com Extroverted (E) 83.33% Introverted (I) 16.67% Intuitive (N) 79.17% Sensing (S) 20.83% Feeling (F) 83.33% Thinking (T) 16.67% Perceiving (P) 58.33% Judging (J) 41.67% (via […]
US News names their 25 Best Careers for 2007 and Librarian is right up there – although we get a “C” rating for both “job outlook” and “prestige”. (Physician’s assistant on the other hand…)
Here at library school, we talk a lot about what we call things. Patrons or customers or clients or users (or even neighbours as one classmate suggested.) You also have libraries or resource centres or information centres or Idea Stores.The trend seems to be towards taking the traditional terms – “library” and “patron” – out of […]
Former CLA President, Wendy Newman, who is teaching “Advocacy and Libraries” this semester has kindly agreed to let me reprint this list. The full version is a speech that she gave as U of T's Faculty of Information Science on March 22, 2005. What I Wish “They” Had Told Me When I Started Out In […]
“Are you interested in putting your library science education and experience to work in one of today’s most challenging, interesting and rewarding environments? Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions is recruiting for a Chief Librarian to manage the Detainee Library, under the direction of the Joint Task Force-Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.” (via MetaFilter) I debated a bit about […]
Just in time for all my classmates' co-op interviews, Michael Stephens has posted: Ten Rules for the New Librarians which includes some tips for interviews in the comments.And from Michael Geist's blog, a Toronto Star story about a plan to implement city-wide wireless in Toronto.
