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.
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