About

Workshops/Events

Search The CRL Collection

Choose Career eResources ABI/Inform Business Source Premier CA$H CareerLink Career Search Global Market Information Global Road Warrior H1BVisas Industry Surveys - S&P Internships USA Massachusetts Newsstand Vault Wall Street Journal

Career Guides Quick Links

• Career Resources By Discipline
• Graduate School Planning
• Green Careers
• Internships
• Job Searching
• Market Trends
• Resumes and Cover Letters
• View All Career Guides

Career Guides for:

• ALANA Jobseekers
• Alumnae/i
• Faculty and Staff
• Graduate Students
• International Students
• Jobseekers with Disabilities
• LGBT Jobseekers
• New Graduates
• Undergraduates
• Women and Careers

Related Resources

• Career Education Center
• Alumnet
• Study Abroad Office

Recent News

• Hopeful Time for Libraries
• Spotlight: CareerSearch Database
• Check Out New Career Books @ the Career Resource Library
• Looking for a Job? Consider an Internship.
• The Globe 100: The Best of Massachusetts Business 2009
• Do You Ever Stray from Your Comfort Zone?
• LIS Students and Professionals! New Improved Internet Job Search
• College to Career: Resources for Surviving the Real World
• Communication Counts in Landing a Job
• Rejection? Don’t take it too hard.

RSS Feed  (what's RSS and how to subscribe?)

“Using Past Lives to Launch Your Library Career”

Filed under Career Exploration, Job Search Process, Networking, Resumes and Cover Letters
Posted by Libraries, September 06, 2007
View all posts for September 2007

Holly Wilson, NMRT Footnotes, Aug. 2007.

If you are considering or preparing for a career in librarianship, this summary of a program at the recent American Library Association conference in D.C. may prove quite inspiring. The speakers at this session discussed their pre-library jobs and described how they were able to transfer the skills learned and developed in those jobs to their library careers. The panelists had previous careers that included truck driver, bouncer, legal secretary, sports marketer, city planner, and waitress. Each in turn explained the paths that brought them to a successful library career, and how they were helped along by these earlier experiences.

For the individual stories and helpful words of advice, see the brief “snapshot” of the program:
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=august2007a&Template=/
ContentManagement/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=163009

—Hagar Shirman