The Librarian Linkover

Helen Linda, Business and Process Analyst at Vermont State Colleges System, discusses how she uses ALL of her "traditional" library skills in her current role. During our conversation, Helen mentioned Women in Lean, International Institute for Business Analysis and Kata Girl Geeks.

Suzanne S. LaPierre and Chris Barbuschak, authors of Desegregation in Northern Virginia Libraries, discuss how they used their librarian skills in the research and writing of their book.

Allison Jai O'Dell, CRM Manager at The Funders Network, discusses how library skills are perfect for roles like data architecture structure and taxonomy.

Jill Wilson, Senior Strategist at ChaseDesign, discusses how well library skills work in strategy and insights positions.

Christina M. Shutt, Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, discusses how she uses her library skills and experiences in running a Presidential library.

Stephanie Chase and Cindy Fesemyer, from Constructive Disruption, discuss how libraries can benefit from big picture planning.

Tracy Z. Maleeff, Security Researcher at Krebs Stamos, discusses how her library and information skills are a perfect fit for the information security field. My interview with Tracy Maleeff went a bit longer than most episodes. Information security is such an important and timely topic and she had a lot of great information and ideas to share. So, I decided to turn the interview into two episodes. Part 1 posted last week. If you haven't listened to it, you can still get a lot out of part 2 and then, go back to part 1. Here is part 2 of my interview with Tracy.

Tracy Z. Maleeff, Security Researcher at Krebs Stamos, discusses how her library and information skills are a perfect fit for the information security field. My interview with Tracy Maleeff went a bit longer than most episodes. Information security is such an important and timely topic and she had a lot of great information and ideas to share. So, I decided to turn the interview into two episodes. You're listening to part 1 now and part 2 will drop next Monday. I know you will get a lot out of both episodes. Here is episode one with Tracy.

Julie Milavec, Director of the Downers Grove Public Library District, discusses leading during a crisis, as well as supporting other local organizations while they are in crisis.

Deb Hunt, Principle at Information Edge, discusses the value of our transferable skills. She also gives us a great overview of the state of libraries today.

In the fall, I interviewed Liz Aviles, Vice President of Market Intelligence at Upshot. While we chatted after we recorded the interview, she said she wanted to turn the tables and interview me. So, after 39 episodes, Liz took over the host duties this week and I’m the guest on episode #40. Liz gave me the opportunity to talk about how the podcast is going and my career so far. It was fun answering some of the same questions that I ask my guests about their management, budget and organization skills, as well as why I went to library school and does that reasoning hold up.

Louisa Kwasigroch, Managing Director at Council on Library and Information Resources, discusses great ideas for job hunting, including how job hunting is a two way street.

She mentions her organization's job board in our conversation. https://jobs.diglib.org/

Kim Dority, President of Dority & Associates, gives us some great ideas to think about when we are looking to move to another library type.

Dexter Evans, Corporate Accounts Manager at EBSCO, discusses his career working in sales for library vendors.

Karly Szczepkowski, Senior Research Analyst for a Customer Engagement Company, discusses what a librarian needs to consider before working in data.

Barbara Ingrassia, Owner of Manage Copyright, discusses how important copyright training is to organizations.

Brian Miloscia, Vice President, Investigation & Analysis Group at a global investment bank, discusses how jobs in fraud and investigation are librarian jobs.

Samantha King, Data Owner at Manulife, discusses her career trajectory.

Rebekah Friedman, Communications Manager at University of South Carolina's College of Information and Communications, discusses ways librarians can promote their libraries. 

Jim Deiters and Alex Todd, Deiters & Todd Library Consulting, discuss ways librarians can prepare to move into a management position or a director position.

Jamey Hurst, Senior Director of Catalog Operations at Shipt, discusses why he likes to hire librarians! And, he talks about how he asks HR to put resumes with library degrees at the top of the pile to review. 

Veronda J. Pitchford, Assistant Director of Califa, discusses how library consortia should be a research and development arm for libraries. Watch for Infopeople's self-care programs coming soon. #TakeCareTuesday #SharetheSelfCare

Beth Maser, President of History Associates Inc., discusses how her library degree modernized her skill-set.

Emily Bulger has a background in UX management, content design and taxonomy. She discusses how librarians are the original info retrieval people. We take large amounts of information and make it useful.

Dr. Sylvia M. Jenkins, President of Moraine Valley Community College, discusses the many ways she uses her library skills in her role as community college president. Hint: She does her research.

Patrick Sweeney, Political Director for EveryLibrary, discusses his library advocacy work. He has some great ideas for librarians to advocate for their libraries.

Margot Note - Principal at Margot Note Consulting, discusses owning an archives consulting business. She has some great advice for librarians who think they want to start a business. 

Rachael Altman, director and coach at Rachael Altman Career Coaching, discusses how she inspires her clients to realize the value in their transferable skills. Here is a link to the market research survey she mentioned in the interview. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7KSYLDBZtY3ZDnfQjfcQ599_9HUG02qsi1PmppfPe-Ajt5g/viewform

Kate Arnold, Geography teacher and Past President of the Special Libraries Association and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, discusses how her information skills compliment her geography skills.