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A Wildcat Goes to Washington

My Journey from SIRLS to a Federal Library

By Jessica Hernandez

My SIRLS Story

Landing the “Big L”

A note on today’s job market

My job searching story

U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

About FDA– Science & Research– Regulatory Mission– Public Health Focus

http://www.fda.gov

The FDA Biosciences Library

About Us Staff Collection

(Cont.)

Services Library Instruction Programming Outreach

My Work @ FDA

Public Services Division– Reference/Information Consulting– Library Instruction– Marketing and Outreach

Technical Services Division– Web Development– Library Technology

(Cont.)

Special Projects– Traction (wiki knowledge base)– New library classes– Lunch & Learn workshop series

Committees

Insider’s Perspective

Working in a federal library

Special opportunities

Benefit of hindsight

See you @ ALA!

2011 ALA Annual Conference – “Careers in Federal Libraries” FAFLRT

Preconference Friday, June 24th 9am- 3pm

– “How I Landed My First Librarian Position, And What I Did ‘In Between’”

Monday, June 27th 10:30am-12pm

Conclusion and Acknowledgements

Thank you to Tatiana Hladky, Nancy Faget, and my co-presenters for coordinating this webinar.

Feel Free to keep in touch! Jessica.Hernandez@fda.hhs.gov

FaceBook: “Jessica N. Hernandez”