Welcome to the last episode of Season 2b of the Hiring Librarians podcast!

My very special guest for this very special episode is – Me! In this, the final and shortest episode of season 2b, I share an affirmation for LIS workers, some thoughts about the current situation, advice for job seekers, advice for people who hire, and a brief update about the likely schedule for next season as well as a new Hiring Librarians survey.

Here is that affirmation one more time:

You are more than your job. In fact, You are not your work at all! You are a worthwhile person regardless of whether or not you have a job, have a “good” job, hear back from places you apply, have interviews, have successful interviews, etc. You are valued and valuable, just as you are.

A not completely error free transcript is here.

Two links for this episode:

This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube music and other various podcasting sites (let me know if you can’t find it on your preferred platform).

I’d love to hear your requests or other feedback for moving forward. And please do reach out if you want to be a guest next season – hiringlibrarians at gmail

Welcome back to Season 2b of the Hiring Librarians podcast!

My guest this episode is Cristy Moran. Cristy and I first “met” in 2013, when she took the original Hiring Librarians job hunter survey, and let me post her responses non-anonymously (There is a “Black Hole” of Information After One Drops a Resume). She then graciously let me follow up with her four times, checking back in one year later, two years later, three years later, and more than a decade later. She recently moved from a job with a state library to a job with a local library, and I’m so pleased to be able to chat with her on the podcast about that experience. We also chat about what the library world really needs right now and provide a thoughtful definition of what “CDs” are for our younger listeners.

An AI-generated and not completely error free transcript is here.

This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube music and other various podcasting sites (let me know if you can’t find it on your preferred platform).

I’d love to hear your requests or other feedback for moving forward. And please do reach out if you want to be a guest – hiringlibrarians at gmail

Welcome back to Season 2b of the Hiring Librarians podcast!

My guests this episode are Lydia Tang (back for her second episode) and Jess Farrell, members of the Archival Workers Collective. We talk about mutual aid and advocacy, exploring how we can work together in this stark new landscape. It’s not just about survival it’s about rebuilding too.

An AI-generated and not completely error free transcript is here.

I have a lot of links to share with you from this episode!

This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube music and other various podcasting sites (let me know if you can’t find it on your preferred platform).

I’d love to hear your requests or other feedback for moving forward. And please do reach out if you want to be a guest – hiringlibrarians at gmail

Welcome back to Season 2b of the Hiring Librarians podcast!

My guest this episode is Angela Pashia. Angela is a coach and one of her specialties is working with library folks in leadership roles. This episode we’re mostly talking about what organizations can do to make sure new hires in these roles are supported – and thus able to support their staff. You might consider this a companion episode to Episode 15, where Kellee Forkenbrock and I talk about onboarding pages and clerks.

Links from this Episode

An AI-generated and not completely error free transcript is here.

This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube music and other various podcasting sites (let me know if you can’t find it on your preferred platform).

I’d love to hear your requests or other feedback for moving forward. And please do reach out if you want to be a guest!

Welcome back to Season 2b of the Hiring Librarians podcast!

My guest this episode is Kim Dority, who has a career she describes as “somewhat eclectic.” In addition to her work in research and information advising, she is an LIS Career expert. Her credentials include two books, LIS Career Sourcebook (Libraries Unlimited, 2012) and Rethinking Information Work, 2d ed (Libraries Unlimited, 2016); she was already well established in this space when I first started Hiring Librarians back in 2012. You’ll note that this episode was actually recorded eight months ago – editing took at least seven months longer than expected (that’s all on me!) In the recording we talk somewhat flippantly about a few things that are much more real now – the defunding of the IMLS and the desire of the current Federal administration to stop folks from reading books (or just freely existing).

An AI-generated and not completely error free transcript is here.

This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube music and other various podcasting sites (let me know if you can’t find it on your preferred platform).

I’d love to hear your requests or other feedback for moving forward. And please do reach out if you want to be a guest!

Welcome back to Season 2b of the Hiring Librarians podcast!

My guests this episode are two archivists who no longer work in archives, Lydia Tang and Marcella Huggard. Lydia and Marcella discuss their respective transitions to working for Lyrasis. We talk about the pluses and minuses of moving your career outside of the archive and we learn what is easier than playing the Don Juan excerpt. I think you will enjoy this episode!

An AI-generated and not completely error free transcript is here.

This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube music and other various podcasting sites (let me know if you can’t find it on your preferred platform).

I’d love to hear your requests or other feedback for moving forward. And please do reach out if you want to be a guest!

Welcome back to Season 2b of the Hiring Librarians podcast!

You may already know my guest, Kellee Forkenbrock, from all the wonderful advice she gives as part of the Further Questions feature here on hiring librarians. For the podcast, she was excited to talk about what happens after the hire; this episode is all about her process for on-boarding new employees. I really enjoyed speaking with her, and I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Some of the things mentioned in this episode:

An AI-generated and not completely error free transcript is here.

This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube music and other various podcasting sites (let me know if you can’t find it on your preferred platform).

I’d love to hear your requests or other feedback for moving forward. And please do reach out if you want to be a guest!

Welcome back to Season 2b of the Hiring Librarians podcast!

I’m excited to finally share with you this episode, recorded last November, in which Susanne Markgren and Linda Miles talk about their work helping library workers achieve success and satisfaction in their careers. My apologies to Susanne, Linda and you the listener for taking so long to edit! November was a whole different world than where we are now. Nevertheless, I think you will still find relevant insights and seasoned wisdom.

An AI-generated and not completely error free transcript is here.

This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube music and other various podcasting sites (let me know if you can’t find it on your preferred platform).

I’d love to hear your requests or other feedback for moving forward. And please do reach out if you want to be a guest!

We’re back!

After an unintentionally long break, we’re back. Let’s consider this Season 2b.

This episode my guest is Jaime Taylor. Jaime is a contributing person-who-hires-library-workers on the Further Questions feature here on Hiring Librarians (which returns tomorrow), the Discovery & Resource Management Systems Coordinator at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts, a proud union member, AND a coordinator of library staff working in THREE different unions. On this episode of the hiring librarians podcast, we’re talking about unions, hiring, getting hired, and what exactly systems librarians do anyway. I hope you enjoy and I’d love to hear your thoughts on the topic.

An AI-generated and not completely error free transcript is here.

Speaking of links, in this episode we talk about:

This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube music and other various podcasting sites (let me know if you can’t find it on your preferred platform).

I’d love to hear your requests or other feedback for moving forward. And please do reach out if you want to be a guest!