Dog-eared & Overdue

Category: Boot Camp

  • So…you’re a librarian, eh? What does that mean, exactly?

    After a volunteer organization meeting on Tuesday, I was the happy recipient of graduation congratulations and good wishes for my hopeful-but-yet–to-be-fully-solidified job prospect. I was also confronted with a question that I was ridiculously unprepared for: “So, what do librarians do now?” This is Library Boot Camp stuff, right? Lesson 1: Have your Elevator Speech Ready.…

  • 10 Things I Learned at Library Boot Camp

    The following are my personal Top Ten Take Aways from my first week on the road to New Librarianship. I’ll explore a few of these topics my next blog posts. 1.   New Librarians embrace body art. 2.   Mints invigorate students. 3.   Librarians do not need to prove we are relevent. 4.   Militant idealists…