I finally managed to catch up on responses to the comments that have come in over the last month (my policy is to try to respond to every comment I get – post a “hey Jay” and see if it's true! ) There was one a month ago from Taryn that said this:“Hi Jason, I'm […]
I don't talk a lot about my work on this blog but I thought I'd discuss one of my favourite activities that I do – approving the purchase of books that patrons have requested – to celebrate my three month anniversary in this position which is tomorrow. In my library system, this is known as […]
I'm looking for fun slogans of the type a person might, for example, print out and post on the wall at their new library job. They don't necessarily have to be directly related to libraries or librarians but should capture the (to coin a phrase) “spirit of librarianship”.Here's a few I have so far…“Be The […]
Learned how to deal with patron book requests yesterday and as part of that process, officially authorized my first ever book purchase which was Colony: The Harrowing Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman. One of my dream library jobs would be to do full-time adult non-fiction (ANF in the vernacular) acquisitions so […]
[2007-05-06 – MetaFilter had a great post with lots of interview related resources and discussion.] I said I wouldn't talk about my job much on this blog but I thought a bit about the various interviews I went through to get to this point in a more general manner might be a good topic, especially […]
Well, my first week of work is over (nice to start on a week with a stat holiday!) and as I dig into my bag of bookmarks for something relevant to post on a day where I'm burned out after a day that started early, included a lot of miles on the road, finished with […]
I've always been somebody who enjoyed checking out the libraries in towns and cities I've visited across Canada and around the world. Whether it's a public, academic or other type of library, it's always interesting to see the different designs, layouts and atmospheres they each manage to create. The idea of library tourism was on […]
Is there any job you start where you don't get overwhelmed with information the first day? When I started working at a gas station at 14 or 15, they handed me a list of 100 SKU codes for every product we sold and told me to have it memorized by the weekend. I also had […]
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 […]
