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Expert In the Field – ?!?!
I had the coolest experience yesterday, I got the chance to Skype with a graduate leadership class about my leadership experience! Now, if you follow my blog, you know that I’ve been in my current position for a grand total of five months, so although my experience is limited that’s…
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Director's Thoughts #5
As I’ve mentioned in the past, we’re spending this year working on a 3-year strategic plan for our library. We’re starting from the ground up with a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis, PEST (Political, Economic, Socio-cultural, Technological) analysis and identifying our stakeholders. This project is being done not only…
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"A Place for the Vulnerable"
I’ve had plenty of people ask me how I became a librarian (which you can read about here), but no one ever really asks why I became a librarian. I love books and this seemed like a great career to get into if you love books. But as an introvert, it…
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Weeding, Weeding, and More Weeding
Our library is embarking on a massive weeding project over the course of the next few months. Weeding has been done for many years, but without too much of a game plan in place and without specific guidelines written out for each section. That is, until a reference librarian bought…
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Director’s Thoughts #2
Meetings As I’m getting more comfortable with my new position, I have come to learn one very important thing – meetings. I have literally never been in so many meetings in my life. If my day doesn’t consist of at least three meetings, I don’t know what to do with myself!…
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Director’s Thoughts #1
Yesterday, I spent a few hours trying to get my office organized… my previous director had been in the position for 37 years let me repeat that – 37 years! So needless to say, the office could use a little refreshing and some spring late summer cleaning. Thankfully our building…
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Interview Introspection
As many of you know, I just got a new job within my library as the, wait for it, library director! This comes as no bigger shock to me as I have a number of years of library experience, but little to no supervisor experience, budgeting experience, etc. I was…
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Exciting News!!!
I can finally, (after a few weeks of not being able to tell anyone!), announce that I’m the new director for my library starting on August 15th. I’ve been looking forward to new challenges and opportunities and I was so excited to be offered this position and am even more…
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Library Pets
There’s been a story crossing my Facebook and Twitter feeds about a cat in White Settlement, Texas (a real place!) about a cat that has lived in the public library for six years. The city council just recently “fired” the cat and amidst public outrage, the cat is back in…
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Life Without Libraries
Jeff Jacoby, a columnist at The Boston Globe, wrote an opinion piece titled “Life Without Libraries Would Be Unimaginably Poorer” yesterday. The writer talks about his experience in libraries growing up and how, although technology is important, it doesn’t make a library – books make a library. I had a similar experience…
