9. What’s In Your Tool Box?
Take a look at your resume. What
skills did you bring to your first library
job that made you eligible for the
position?
List out the skills that earned you the
job.
These are core tools you will always
need to sharpen.
10. Being a Great Librarian in 2005
Does not Guarantee that you
will be a Great Librarian in 2015.
12. Mastering Your Job Skills
List out skill listed on your current job
description.
Assess your skill levels
Find opportunities to improve your
skills.
14. What would you want to do in the
Library, if Money and Time were
not an Issue?
15. Know why you became a
librarian
What first interested you in becoming
a librarian?
What types of information did you like
to collect as a child? What do you like
to collect as an adult?
In what activities can you lose
yourself?
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19. Where Can I find
Information about
continuing my
education?
To become an embodied librarian, we need to be proud enough of our career that we see ourselves as librarians all the time. Evalyn Carnahan from The Mummy
You have skills that someone thought were librarian worthy
What makes you go wow!
Librarianship is not just a job, it is a way of life.
You can have an average/ ordinary library position, but you do not have to do so.
Don’t throw any talent or interest away, because it can be used in a library setting.
What do you spend the most time doning
You work in a library. That’s a great place to start.
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