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Things I wish I’d known a bit earlier.

You, the New Professionals,

happy in your field

Me, trying to be as much like you as possible, but clearly in no way a new professional

This is the date I could last call myself a New Professional.

I’m using term to mean someone new to the profession – within 5 or so years of joining – and NOT necessarily someone

with the qualification.

The difference between librarians with the degree and librarians without the degree is rarely the degree.

A Quick confession – library buildings are really nothing to do with what excited me about IBRARIANSHIP (Last month I went on my first ever tour of a library – at least voluntarily…)

LIBRARIANSHIP

What I love about LIBRARIANSHIP is the community. It is sharing, supportive, and communicative.

LIBRARIANSHIP

What I love about LIBRARIANSHIP

is the community.

LIBRARIANSHIP

These days it’s a very fragmented community, but that’s okay. You just need to

FIND YOUR FRAGMENT

I don’t think librarians can save the world.

BUT EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM CAN DO

ANYTHING

BUT EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM CAN DO

ANYTHING

do something you weren’t going to do already…

JOIN TWITTER

Use the SEARCH box Cannibalise Give it time…

If you follow these four accounts Twitter WILL be interesting, challenging and useful to you as an information professional

FEARS FACE YOUR

If you’re taking career risks (rather than creative risks) go for IMPACT

It’s really important to learn from positive experiences

Write them down if need be!

BIGGER BEING PART OF SOMETHING

Get your fingers in

several

But don’t modify your baa to suit the flock…

People get stuck on the idea that you need to build a brand. Brand is a by-product.

EVENTS GOING TO

MENTOR FIND A

JUST ASK It’s amazing how much people get when

they just ask for it. It doesn’t always work, of course – but it’s always worth a try.

And the rest REST AND THE

And the rest

Sometimes it takes strength to say no.

It’s easy to get addicted to opportunities. Others will come! Imagine you’re advising someone else…

ANDREW OSWALD

Professor of Economics University of Warwick

For this reason, I formed Opportunities Anonymous: an informal self-help group of about a dozen close colleagues in my networks who are addicted to saying yes. The group acts as a forum in which to confess the opportunities that we are currently considering and to get feedback on them. Surprisingly, perhaps, it is very easy to see why other people should turn opportunities away… Click here to read the full article on workload survival

Give yourself a break…

Give yourself a break… (Like you’d give someone else a break.)

Perhaps librarians need to spend less time giving themselves a hard time about things which don’t matter, and more time setting higher standards for ourselves on the things that do matter?

AND

Don’t underestimate how focused interview panels are on local impact. No one cares if you’re a rockstar.

Rarely do people ask you at interview about your extra-curricular activities in librarianship. Those become useful if they help you show you can do the specific role they’re interviewing you for.

(Download the job spec of the job you want and start assembling all the skills you need.)

“You can’t arrive in the rehearsal and be any good unless you’ve done a lot of

work beforehand. You can’t be good in the rehearsal unless you can think on your feet.

So you can’t come in with a plan, but if you don’t come in

with anything you’re dead!“

Library careers can work a bit like this too. You often can’t expect to follow

a plan – but it’s good to have some idea where

you’re going. Even though the way you get there will

change, and the destination might change too.

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Images are Creative Commons Zero, sourced via Pixabay, Pexels, finda.photo and Gratisogpraphy

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Images are Creative Commons Zero, sourced via Pixabay, Pexels, finda.photo and Gratisogprahy