WordPress provides a list of referrers, as part of its Blog Stats page. I love looking at how people get here. I think, “People are talking about the blog on the internets!” It’s very exciting. It’s also great to see what they are saying, both when it’s an opinion about the blog, and when the blog is presented as part of the context of someone’s job hunting experience. So here is a post about some of my referrers, in the spirit of both vanity and reciprocity. This is part one, because this post is long enough already, and I’m not even close to being finished with the list.
The majority of traffic to this blog comes through search engines, closely followed by the anonymous gates of Twitter and Facebook.
Following that, I Need A Library Job has sent a lot of you here, as has LinkedIn – in particular this post in the group Librarians in the Job Market.
Hack Library School, in addition to collaborating on our Library School Career Center Series, has mentioned us in several great posts about library employment:
Tips for Your Job or Internship Application
Avoiding the lull after the storm – Reflections on the ending of library school and the job hunt
Congratulations! Now Get a Job
LISNews helped me gather participants for a surveys here and here, and Ask A Manager also helped me get off the ground by introducing me here.
American Libraries Live has linked to posts on a few occasions, for example here and here, as has the ALA_JobLIST newsletter.
LISCareer was kind enough to publish a piece I wrote a few months after starting Hiring Librarians, and I also posted an excerpt from their book, which they talk about on their site. Both links send people here weekly if not daily.
One thing I think it totally awesome is that Librarian Hire Fashion was inspired by this blog, and Jill’s linking and discussion sends readers here regularly as well.
Tumblr sends fewer people here than Facebook and Twitter, but one thing I prefer is that I can more often see the specific thing that has driven traffic. Sometimes I can see a link where a specific profile has shared or reblogged a post, such as Library Journal, but other times people are just browsing a tag, such as mlis, library job, librarian, librarians, or library school, and so those Tumblr tag pages show up as links in as well. Reddit is another online community which allows for specific links. There are three such conversations here, here, and here. LiveJournal has also sent many of you here. Sometimes I can see the specific link (as part of the advice on applying for jobs here) and sometimes I can’t. Pinterest has also sent people here via pins such as this one and this one.
Fairly soon after this blog first started, mental_floss’ Miss Kathleen linked here, and that post sent quite a few of you over.
Being in the blogroll on the History of News Libraries site is a traffic driver, particularly I think when people have gone there to look at job postings.
American Libraries’ article on Toughing It Out in a Tight Job Market thrilled me not only because I got to see the blog’s name in print, but because the online version of the article sent some of you here. And, you know, good advice and all that.
Michael Adrian, whose profile pic makes Ottawa look FREEZING cold, blogged twice about Hiring Librarians, here and here.
New Jersey Librarians may have arrived here after reading about it on the NJ-SLA Jobs Blog.
Library School career pages and blogs also link here: Wayne State, Drexel iSchool, University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Hiring Librarians is also on the Resources page of Library JobLine. Another LIS Career site, Library Jobs in California, wrote a post about us.
The sites of contributing Hiring Librarians, namely Sue Hill’s Recruitment Agency and The Library Career Center send some of you here.
The BeerBrarian (one of my favorite types of Brarian), linked here in his post about the search to fill a position at his library, and then was kind enough to do a survey interview.
Kate Tkacik linked here in a Library Journal BackTalk article about how tough the job search is for recent grads. Don’t I know it!
One blog about a successful job search that sends people here is Robin Camille Davis‘
Some people have linked in when talking about upcoming presentations, such as Alexandra Carter and John Dupuis at Confessions of a Science Librarian
For a great paisley photo, and some thoughtful analysis, take a look at The Interview and You, on LLOPS
Probably the most random link in is from a community called Makeup Alley. Or maybe not that random, given that they’re linking to the interview outfit survey, and I’m sure there are plenty of Makeup-wearing librarians. They talk about Hiring Librarians on Ravelry too, but I buy into the knitting librarian stereotype, so that one doesn’t seem so out of left field. And LibraryThing seems very appropriate.
I find a lot of the photos I use here on the Flickr Commons. For a while, I was writing a comment on the photo to tell the owning institution where I’d used it and say thank you. Those comments link back in sometimes, which was only part of my purpose in commenting.
This blog has been used as a citation at least twice, once by Alyssa Vincent on In the Library with the Lead Pipe, and once by Raymond Wang in an APALA article.
People using Scoop.It sometimes like to scoop Hiring Librarians articles, namely Africa Hands at the LIS Career Information resource, Library Collaboration, Professional Development of Librarians, K-12 School Libraries, and The Information Professional.
I’ve gotten to interview several candidates for library association boards, and they’ve often linked to the interview on their campaign sites. For example: Courtney Young, Gina Millsap.
Sally Pewhairangi has linked into the site more than once on her blog Finding Heroes. I really like it when she links in, because then she includes my Twitter account when she tweets a list of “library heroes.”
I love the title of this wiki: Help for Librarians. They link in here.
Ok, will talk about more later.
