#library job

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I've got my library interview today at 4, and I'm nervous as hell. I bombed spectacularly last summer and spent the next three weeks dreading the inevitable "unfortunately" email because I Immediately knew there was no hope. I went down in flames!

This year will be different.

I have to give a 10 minute storytime presentation for an imaginary group of second graders. Last year I read Tacky the Penguin, and they asked me to use props so I made a big Antarctica-themed backdrop and popsicle stick puppets, but this year they didn't specify anything so I didn't bother making any. I've chosen a handful of short stories from my Frog and Toad collection (three for sure, a fourth if I have time) and I've given funny voices to each character. Frog sounds like Ewan McGregor's Obi Wan and Toad is like a gruff old londontown bobbie, "well well, wots all dis den?"

Woodland critters in coats just feel British to me, that's the way the world works.

But the storytime wasn't why I failed last year. I failed because I unable to answer any of the interview questions. I froze like a deer in the headlights, I stumbled over my words, I think I may even have said that one of the questions was "unfair," I dunno, I've kinda blocked it out because it was so horrible. I hope to be more professional this time. I don't have any experience as a librarian, but I've worked retail/customer service my whole life and my sister runs a small business for teachers, so I think I'll be able to pull some reasonable answers from our combined experiences.

I haven't heard back from any of the dozen other jobs I've applied for, so this is really my only hope. I've been between jobs for a month and a half now, and my savings will only stretch so far. I can't see myself doing anything besides this library job.

Wish me luck!

#work #job search #job interview #library #library job #god help me #fingers crossed

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

im so sorry i was asked to post this several days ago! i would be sorely tempted if i still lived in-state

#umass #wmass #pioneer valley #library job

[allthisandtea]

Hey, if you're looking for a new job, in Oregon or willing to move, and work well with union folks, our library is recruiting for a new director:

https://jobs.crelate.com/portal/raftelis/job/wwnjmz93kk67341xinswmwarwr

Come work with me, and a lot of other cool people! You don't need your Masters in Library Science, even!

#library job #librarian #Oregon libraries

[missrandomdreamer]

Personal Ramble time again:

So I have this coworker and she's is like super cool. Like she just has this air of swagger and she's just idk can't find words but she's just so friggin cool: badass

And I feel like I'm annoying everytime I talk to her ( even though she says I'm not and I shouldn't apologize and I'm totally fine ) but like she's just so cool and just :T i am like this awkward ostrich that can't formulate words and just uuuuhhhjjh how do I talk to cool people and not be self conscious about it ><

Even as I'm typing this I'm like oh God was I annoying, was I to happy or talkative or aghhhhhh

But yeah that's my personal ramble today

#rambles #personal #work #library job #cool coworker

[salad-of-potatoes]

GOT A JOB AT MY LOCAL LIBRARY LETS GOOOOOO

$15.70 AN HOUR AND WE UNIONIZED IM SO HYPE

#library job #new job #libraries

[jakeperalta]

I'm curious. what job would you do if money was no object (you just automatically had an income you could live comfortably on)? including work like volunteering, studying etc. please share in the tags :)

#under this premise part time work is valid too! #personally i think i'd probably study. maybe do another masters maybe part time across two years this time #if i were to do a job job i think i'd try out working in a library (ideally an academic library). which would technically be more studying #since i'd need to get a library qualification first #i'm just very curious what people would choose if it was purely a choice of what appeals to you over the practicality/necessity #talking

[genieinanovel]

Interrupting Your Bookish Scrolling for an Update

The news has been out there for over a week now, but if you’re not following my Twitter or Instagram, then you probably haven’t heard the news. After seven years (almost) I’m leaving my job at my hometown library to go work at another one town over… as the Library Director! I’ll be honest, this is a huge jump in positions for me, so it’ll take some time to get used to. It might mean that my…

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#blog update #book blog #book lover #book review #book review blog #genie in a novel #librarian #librarian life #library job #life update #new job #new post #personal post #ya fiction

[calvinandhobbes]

she let me hit cause i support my public library

#my old job as a library assistant was the best. just returning books to their special little spots in the shelves :) #🧦

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

#work #jobs #library of alexandria #twitter #tweets #meme #memes #tweet #funny #lol

[hiringlibrarians]

some of my colleagues also ask "why do you want this job" and it irks me because we're IN A SCENARIO.

some of my colleagues also ask “why do you want this job” and it irks me because we’re IN A SCENARIO.

Original caption: The Librarian Carefully Enters the Consignment Into Her Books, 12/1952. National Archives. This anonymous interview is with someone who hires for a: √ Academic Library   Who makes hiring decisions at your organization: √ Library Administration  √ A Committee or panel  Which of the following does your organization regularly require of candidates? √ Online application √…

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#Academic Libraries #jobhunting #library hiring #library job #libraryjobs #lis career #LIS careers

[camelidae]

Listen, you’ll be fine. Just don’t forget your library card and DON’T dog-ear the pages.

#dragons #library dragon #dragons with jobs #fantasy art #dragon illustration #watercolor #traditional art

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Last summer I applied for a job as a library specialist in a small town outside Gainesville. As part of the application I had to go to the librsry in-person and take what was essentially a high school English test, "match these titles to their authors," "what was the main theme of XYZ," etc., really dry and pointless, but the final few questions were relevant to the library position and I absolutely aced them. "What should you do if someone comes in with a dog?" "How would you help a parent find a book for their child if they don't remember the title?" "How would you respond to teenagers playing loud music?" I answered professionally and thoughtfully, and they asked me to come back for an interview. I was told to prepare a children's book storytime presentation with props, so I made a backdrop and little popsicle stick puppets for Tacky the Penguin, my favorite picture book from elementary school.

I had a lot of fun crafting everything and practicing my read-through with funny voices.

I colored in the final map, I just forgot to take a picture of it

Goodly, Lovely, Angel, Neatly, Perfect, and Tacky

"We're going on a penguin hunt, we'll mark em with a switch, then we'll sell em for a dollar and get rich, rich, rich!"

I absolutely bombed the interview. I was a nervous wreck, I kept stumbling over my words, I drew multiple complete blanks during their questions, and a lot of my answers trailed off into "well, yeah, you know what I mean..." Dumpster fire. 57 dead, 193 injured. I spent the next month dreading every single email I got because I was waiting to read the inevitable "unfortunately."

It was so much worse than that.

After enough time had passed I assumed they were simply going to ghost me, so I forgot about it and moved on, and then out of the blue they emailed me back with a form letter that began "dear sir or ma'am," which hurt a lot because I personally spoke to the hiring lady three times and all her other emails (including the form ones) had the courtesy to start with my name in all caps. They took the time to fill in the blank before, but not this time. Didn't even say "unfortunately," they were really blunt, "you were not chosen to move forward with the hiring process." Damn.

Well, I just moved back up to Gainesville and I saw that they county is still hiring for that same position at a different library that's closer to my apartment. I sent out a Hail Mary application thinking they'd reject me sight unseen, but they must have liked my cover letter because they want me to come back and take the test again. I don't remember every single question, but if it's anything like last year's I'll want to brush up on my English literature. I have to go in on Tuesday morning, so I have all weekend to study.

If I pass, they'll interview me again, and this time I hope they don't make me do another puppet show. My dad keeps making fun of me for it, like I just decided to bring puppets into it for no reason when they very specifically asked me to. It was one of the requirements. The word "puppets" was on the rubrick, but my dad acts like I'm mentally disabled, "dese are mah fwiends, dey gib me mowal suppowt, pwease n fank you!" Does he think I just choose to make puppets and bring them to job interviews for shits and giggles? Does he think I'm divorced from reality? Or is he just a heartless asshole who likes being cruel?

My old job paid me $15/hour for 31½ hours per week, $472.50 before taxes, around $420 take-home (88-89%). This library job offers $16.10 for a full 40 hours, $644.00 before taxes, around $570 net if they take out the same percentage. If I round down to 85% instead, I'd take home just shy of $550 per week, which is 131% of what I used to make. My rent is $600 per month, and my I qualify for $0 monthly payments on my student loans under the SAVE Plan, so I'd be flush with cash for once in my life and I'd have a job that doesn't make me want to kill myself!

This would be absolutely perfect! I really hope it works out this time. I know the gist of what they're going to ask me, so I'll be better prepared when it comes time to interview. Wish me luck.

#job interview #library specialist #library job #job application #wish me luck #hail mary #i hope this works

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

*tries to organize my thoughts*

*remembers i'm not in school and therefore beholden to neither heaven nor hell nor any man's grading system*

*joyously shredding & tossing all my carefully arranged 3x5 mental notecards into the air like so much beige confetti. raising my arms in victory, cheering raucously until i accidentally inhale bits of homemade confetti*

(*coughing up itty bits of paper like a cat evicting a hairball with a firm understanding of tenants' rights*) wait wat happens next

#i marie kondoed my thoughts and *i* feel great. but now my stream-of-consciousness has escaped containment #so many innocent bystanders at stake #every time i try to organize my thoughts i run out of plastic bins and have to make a trip to the container store where i get even more dis #racted so. you can't just hand me THIS brain and NO catalogue OR library classification system #and expect me to single-handedly sort through all this nonsense? bad form but fucking form not in my job description #aNYways. formal education sure did a FUCKING NUMBER on us huh #(a number i measure not in gpa or dollars of student debt. #but in the number of therapy sessions & medical debt it will take to recover.) #seriously folks. our education systems are...innately traumatizing for a huge number of students. and we NEED to address this. #the fact that it is culturally common for adults to have anxiety nightmares about school/exams...even decades later? #that is not cute. it is Alarming. #no one--much less entire generations--should be spending their developmental years in an environment of chronic stress & pressure & strain #and yet that is the reality for millions and millions of pre-teen and teenage and young adult students #this isn't healthy and it serves and empowers NO ONE #...except of course the many exploitative educational & financial & debt-collecting institutions thriving from the current balance of power #and of course it's a nefarious and powerful way to sabotage/erase the middle class #which billionaires and the wealth-inequality creators they finance couldn't possibly have any noteworthy interest in whatsoever #it's not like there's an elite group of people with huge financial incentives to drain/steal resources from the masses... #anyways sorry for going all Conspiracy Theory on you. #obviously the billionaires who control the vast majority of our resources and news and political campaign funding #are not tied to every single itty bitty social issue and i'm a silly billy to imply it #please tell elon musk to ignore this tweet i am so subservient and acquiescent #mr musky u r so good at inheriting slavery-built mining fortunes & buying other people's companies #& building rocket ships & fancy cars that do NOT explode/catch fire & also NOT running billion dollar companies into the ground #mr musky u r so talented genius billionaire playboy with 10 kids and ex-wives who find you creepy af babe u r basically iron man

[finleycannotdraw]

4. Historic Time ~ won’t you stay with me, my darling, when my walls start burning down? (x)

I have so many thoughts about Aziraphale and the Library of Alexandria (which, as a friend explained, should actually be translated to Alexandrea). I definitely think he was there when it burned. I also think it could’ve been the first time (one of the only times) Crowley touched him without thinking, and maybe one of the reasons he decided to run a bookshop! I am unwell. Aziraphale would’ve been devastated when that library burned.

#what if the s1 fire wasnt the first time crowley ran into a building of burning books in search of aziraphale. #anyway. #good omens #good omens fanart #aziraphale #crowley #crawley #ineffable husbands #aziraphale x crowley #library of alexandria #finley cannot draw #good omtober #inktober #good omens inktober #we got the bookshop and bentley in s1 and job’s house in s2. can we please have the fall and/or the library of alexandria in s3 #for lighting david tennant on fire purposes.

[faeriekit]

It always baffles me when people are so mad about how ao3 operates as an archive and not, like, as an algorithmically driven recommendation machine or as a moral measure of appropriate writing or as a social media site or as anything else people want it to be... It's an archive. It hosts text. That's the sole summary of its job. If you don't like it, you don't...have to use it?

If you want a stricter hosting site for fanfic, ffn exists. If you want something that has an algorithm, pick any social media site nowadays...even tumblr recommends stuff to you now. Ao3 is not going to be your arbiter of fandom discourse nor will it enforce your personal opinion on certain topics because that's a really weird thing to ask of an archive and its staff, and that's straight up not what the site is for. That's like walking into a library and asking snidely why the librarians aren't stopping you from reading the books there. If it makes you mad, there are other fanfic hosting sites that aren't archival-model-based.

#I understand your impulse to make Site enforce Thing but quite frankly it's not their job unless it's actively illegal #can of worms time everyone #I got really weird notes on my ai post again and I think people forgot what ao3 is for squad #library posting #ao3

[peachdoxie]

My ideal job is getting paid $100 an hour to find missing things in libraries and archives. Someone requested something and your staff can't find it on the shelves? Hire me and I will literally search the entire stacks until I find it.

#anecdotes by peachdoxie #this is currently one of my jobs at my library but unfortunately i do not get paid nearly that much and also i have other duties #library #archives