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• Hiring Librarians | An inside look at library hiring

  An inside look at library hiring

• About | Hiring Librarians

  Hiring Librarians primarily posts interviews generated through online surveys about LIS hiring or careers. Most responses are anonymous (and I do not have any way of contacting the respondent or even ...

• Further Questions: What current issues in librarianship do you think candidates should be aware of

  An upset patron brings a children’s book to the circulation desk, saying that it is inappropriate for children. She demands it’s removal from the collection immediately. How do you respond?

• Job Hunter’s Web Guide: Sites of Yore | Hiring Librarians

  Stephen X. Flynn started Open Cover Letters about six months before I started Hiring Librarians and I’ll always be grateful to him for how friendly he was. He’s the one that advised me to buy the doma...

• Job Hunter’s Web Guide: Library Returners | Hiring Librarians

  I entered the world of career breaks many years ago. But I didn’t find the information I needed or wanted when I wanted to re-join the profession and return to work. The blog was started to fill what ...

• Researcher’s Corner: Computer programming for librarians | Hiring Librarians

  For early-career librarians and library students interested in learning coding and going into a technology-focused area of librarianship it can be difficult to decide which programming language to lea...