1st Edition
Guidance for Librarians Transitioning to a New Environment
1. A New Size or Type of Library 2. Exploring New Opportunities 3. Preparing for Interviews and Promotion 4. Mentorship 5. Being the New Person 6. Looking Inward: Managing Your Emotions 7. Publishing, Presenting, and Conferencing 8. Tying it All Together Appendix A: Survey on Librarian Career Path and Attitudes Appendix B: Example Resumé and CV
Biography
Tina Herman Buck is the Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of Central Florida. She has worked in public libraries of widely varying sizes, a multi- type library cooperative, a very small university, and a very large one, all in the United States. All her jobs have been in technical services, with varying percentages of public services mixed in.
Sara Duff is the Acquisitions and Collection Assessment librarian at the University of Central Florida. Before that, she worked for seven years as a librarian at Gulf Coast State College. Though she focuses in acquisitions now, she’s done quite a bit of public services work at the community college level.
