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Tell Your Story
Slide2Instructions
Make sure to tell your story, your way.
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ame names, add pictures, embed film, include quotations, whatever makes it yours. If you’re a career changer, include ways that your previous career influenced your success, or made it possible for you to breeze through stages. Are you in transition between one stage and another? Tell us about that. Retired? Share how things went for you, and pass along some advice. New enough that you can’t write about actual stages? Then make the plan for what you want to happen and where you want to be at each successive stage.
You might want to begin at this
Reflective Exercise:
A series of questions in survey form to get you thinking about how to map the experiences that led you to librarianship and that affected your career trajectory. It will help you determine your stage. Start here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/journey-map
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Add slides to cover topics not included here. This is your story!
Upload your story at
http://www.ala.org/support/tellyourstory
so that it can become part of our ethnographic research study into librarian career trajectories.
Slide3Your early memories related to books and reading (&/or computers & reading.)
Slide4School Librarians Who Made a Difference
English teachers or other mentors count, too.
Slide5Your Favorite Libraries
Tell us about your favorite libraries. Where did you get your first library card?
Slide6How did you decide to go to library school & where did you go?
Was there a particular reason you chose the school you did?
Slide7Favorite Library School Memories
Friends, mentors, how you discovered your specialty ... were you a student member of ALA? Were you able to attend conference as a student?
Slide8Early Mentors
Who mentored you during library school, internships and/or early career jobs? Can you share some of the wisdom that made a difference for you?
Slide9Early Career Touchpoints: Your Apprenticeship Years
What was your first job out of library school? Who mentored you? What was most challenging and what was most rewarding? What came next? What role did ALA or other associations play in helping you find any of your early career jobs or helping you keep up to date?
Slide10The Collegial Years: Establishing Peer to Peer Relationships
Where were you after your first five years in the profession? Did you get promotions or make lateral moves during this stage? What specialty area(s) did you become most expert in? How did mentoring and peer relationships assist your growth? Did being involved with ALA or another association play a role in helping you?
Slide11The Mentor Stage: Giving Back
Did you get promotions or make lateral moves during this stage? How did your responsibilities expand into people and/or project management? Whom did you mentor? Did you begin to assist with budget, policy, or other strategic initiatives? Did being involved with ALA or another association play a role in helping you?
Slide12The Visionary Stage: Strategic Planning
At this stage, you've got responsibility for envisioning the future of the library and ensuring its continued existence. You're noted for your ability to advocate, budget, and develop policy. How did you get here, and what helped you along the way? What advice do you have to share?
Slide13Social Media? Technology?
What role has the changing technological landscape played in your day to day tasks and overall career?
Slide14What's next?
We're waiting to hear ...