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“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
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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