Making the Most of Your Library Career.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (99 pages)
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. First Impressions -- 2. The View from the Top -- 3. The Accidental Librarian -- 4. We've Always Done It This Way -- 5. Professional Associations and You -- 6. Life Cycle of a Librarian's Year -- 7. Assessing the Job -- 8. Developing a Plan B -- 9. How Not to Be One of the Penguins -- 10. What If the Job Doesn't Work Out? -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index.
Benefiting those fresh out of library school as well as experienced professionals, career librarians from every corner of the profession offer a personal, down-to-earth view of "what it's really like out there.".
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Library science -- Vocational guidance -- United States. Librarians -- Employment -- United States. Librarians -- United States -- Interviews. Career development.