Hiring Librarians: Why are we here?

Welcome!

The goal of this blog is to facilitate communication between job-hunters and hiring managers in the library and information professions.  Although these two groups seemingly have a common purpose, honest interactions are often restricted by pressure, fear, and the mysterious codes of the hiring process.

Helen Marie Gunz, former Assistant Librarian of the American Museum of Natural History, Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives via Flickr Commons

To this end, this blog will present short, survey-based interviews with individuals who hire librarians and allow open but moderated commenting. Both commenters and interviewees have the option to remain anonymous.

I hope you will participate. The link to take the survey for hiring managers, as well as an email for submitting potential survey questions, is here: https://hiringlibrarians.wordpress.com/participate/

If you would like to know more about the inspiration for this blog, that information is here: https://hiringlibrarians.wordpress.com/about/

If you would like to know who I am, my bio is here: https://hiringlibrarians.wordpress.com/blogger-bio/

I am very interested in any feedback you might have about this blog.  Please don’t hesitate to comment or email me.

Thank you for visiting!