LISProchat Reads the #LISprochat #BookClub - NEW FEATURE ALERT! - Starting January 2018!

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As mentioned at the end of last night's chat, Leigh and I will be introducing a new feature starting with a trial run in January. We're hosting a book club! And you're all welcome to join us!

WHAT?

A book club! On Twitter! Where we read and discuss books to help us with our professional development in library land!

WHERE?

On Twitter, using the same hashtag we use for our chats! #LISprochat.

WHEN?

We'll announce the upcoming book in the last chat of the previous month and then have the discussion on the last Monday of the month regardless of whether it's a normal #LISprochat day or not.

WHY?

For a few reasons, Leigh and I thought it would be fun to have a book club. I mentioned that I was giving myself a new reading goal to try and read 1 professional book a month, and this is a good way for me to motivate myself to meet that goal through accountability!

January 2018 Book Selection

This will be our inaugural book and discussion, the chat will take place on Monday, January 29, 2018, at 8:30 pm.

Title: Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians
Editor/Author: Tracy Nectoux (Editor)

Publisher: Litwin Books, LLC

Date Published: 2010/1
No. of Pages: 294

WorldCat link: http://www.worldcat.org/title/out-behind-the-desk-workplace-issues-for-lgbtq-librarians/oclc/957634734?loc=

Synopsis via Goodreads:

Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians is an anthology of personal accounts by librarians and library workers relating experiences of being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, or queer at work. A broad spectrum of orientations and gender identities are represented, highlighting a range of experiences of being and/or coming out at work.

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Dec 11 2017 - 8:30pm ET

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TOPIC

Library advocacy - what does that mean and what does it do?

I'm two weeks into a new volunteer role that I took on in the evenings when I get home from work. I volunteered to become the new Library Advocacy Researcher for the Harry Potter Alliance. So this topic is definitely informed by that new gig. I've been doing a lot of thinking about what library advocacy actually is, what library advocates do, and where to find any resources that exist for them. Especially outside of America, most of the advocacy efforts I see and hear about relate to American libraries and/or the ALA - EveryLibrary comes to mind immediately when I think of library advocacy for example. There's a great primer article from June of this year by Shannon Maughan on Publishers Weekly called Library Advocacy Efforts Gain Steam.

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QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 What does library advocacy mean to you? What are some areas of library land we need to specifically advocate for?

Q2 What are your go-to resources for finding out information about library advocacy issues and activities?

Q3 Have you ever been directly involved in library advocacy? How? Where? What did you do?

Q4 What library advocacy communities if any are you a part of?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 8:30 PM ET NEXT MONDAY, DECEMBER 11 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Nov 27 2017 - 8:30pm ET - #GivingTuesday

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TOPIC

#GivingTuesday and Libraries & Literacy with a special guest chatter

Personally, I love the idea of Giving Tuesday (which is the day after the chat!). I'm a donator anyway, but I like to do it on Giving Tuesday because there's almost guaranteed to be a great matching program going on at one or all of the charities I choose. Leigh has invited #LISprochat regular Amanpreet Kaur (@akaur0) to be our guest chatter for this philanthropic topic to help promote the Community Outreach Initiatives she has been working on with SLA Philly.

Amanpreet is currently and newly the Community Health and Engineering Librarian at the University of Penn. She was the 2015 - 2017 Eugene Garfield Resident in Science Librarianship at the University of Penn as well. Aman (for short), has devoted the last stretch of her residency to Community Health Outreach and will be piloting an information prescription program to encourage credible health information seeking behaviors among patients in Sayre Health Center in West Philadelphia. This pilot program builds upon the existing health corners initiative, the Biomedical Library's partnership with the School of Nursing and the Free Library of Philadelphia. In addition, Aman serves as the 2017 Special Libraries Association (SLA) Philadelphia Chapter Community Outreach Committee Chair.

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QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 What are you planning to do for #GivingTuesday? What have you done in the past?

Q2 What creative ideas do you have for #GivingTuesday? Please share!

Q3 What resources do you turn to when trying to locate a library related charity or non-profit to support?

Q4 What advice do you have for supporting charities/Non-Profits?

For this chat, please submit any questions that you have Aman to be asked during the chat as well as any topics regarding Supporting library and literacy-oriented organizations as well as other non-profit organizations you would like to see covered to LISprochat@gmail.com  Or feel free to ask your questions during the chat and share your ideas/experiences.

Also Aman created this awesome editable and shareable Google Doc of #GivingTuesday Suggestions, add some more ideas here!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WPPf9XdC0mN7LnoYoCEEQ0nuj_9rR2bg-I3cn7Vr2SA/edit

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 8:30 PM ET NEXT MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Nov 13 2017 - 8:30pm ET

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TOPIC

Overcommitting yourself on the job and in the library field and learning how to say NO

This is something both Leigh and I have had to learn the hard way, and I'm sure many of you have too. So let's chat about it and see if we can help others avoid this pitfall. Check out Diana Kander's Help Your Team Stop Overcommitting by Empowering Them to Say No article over at Harvard Business Review (if you've got any free views for the month left, or want to pay $8.95...oh HBR...) or Emily Ford's How do you say no? over at In the Library with the Lead Pipe (free!) for a few takes on this topic.

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QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Have you ever overcommitted yourself? Please share your experience.

Q2 What strategies do you take when deciding what to say yes or no to at work or in the field?

Q3 What resources do you turn to when dealing with overcommittment?

Q4 What advice do you have to share for those who deal with overcommittment and saying no on the job and/or in the field?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 8:30 PM ET NEXT MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Oct 30 2017 - 8:30pm ET

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TOPIC

Imposter Syndrome in the Library Industry

It's a popular frequently written on topic that I am sure we have all heard of, and may even all of us have experienced at this point as well. I am talking about imposter syndrome. We see and hear about it more and more often lately. So that's the topic of the upcoming #LISProchat. Our main inspiration article is Jumping into the Deep: Imposter Syndrome, Defining Success, and the New Librarian by Sajni Lacey in Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research.

I've also compiled another list of relatively recent articles on the topic:

1. Impostor Phenomenon and Graduate Students from the University of Waterloo
2. The Five Types Of Impostor Syndrome And How To Beat Them by Melanie Wilding at The Muse
3. Is impostor syndrome holding you back at work? by Marilisa Racco at Global News
4. 19 People With Impostor Syndrome Told Us What It Feels Like by Kelly Oakes at BuzzFeed
5. Breaking out of the imposter syndrome mentality by Emily Waitson in The Cord (the student Newspaper at the University where I work)

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QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Tell us about a time when you experienced imposter syndrome.

Q2 What external triggers do you think cause imposter syndrome? How about internal triggers?

Q3 How do you personally deal with overcoming your bouts of imposter syndrome?

Q4 What are your go-to resources for information and support related to overcoming imposter syndrome?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 8:30 PM ET NEXT MONDAY, OCTOBER 30 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Oct 16 2017 - 8:30pm ET

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TOPIC

Neutrality and the Library Industry

In the wake of everything that's happening in the US under the 45th President neutrality is a hot topic right now. I feel like this is especially true in the Library industry. David Lee King does a really good job of discussing the issue in his article Ugly Beliefs, Free Speech, and Libraries. I think the best part of the article is the quote from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

“Protecting free speech is not something we do because we agree with all of the speech that gets protected. We do it because we believe that no one—not the government and not private commercial enterprises—should decide who gets to speak and who doesn’t.”

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QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Do you agree that libraries should be completely neutral as per the library bill of rights? How are we doing with that?

Q2 Do you ever have trouble keeping your personal biases out of your professional decisions? How do you handle that?

Q3 How do you handle promoting and supporting materials/questions that make you feel morally uneasy?

Q4 What ideas/thoughts do you have about how we as a whole can do better at keeping our libraries neutral?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 8:30 PM ET NEXT MONDAY, OCTOBER 16 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Oct 2 2017 - 8:30pm ET

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TOPIC

Professionalism and the library industry

This is a topic I think a lot about, I have very strong opinions about "professionalism" as a concept. So instead of telling you about my personal opinion now (I figure that's better saved for the chat), I've got 4 inspiration articles for you with contrasting viewpoints on the idea of professionalism both in and out of the library industry:

1. The Importance of Professionalism by Katie Clausen over at Hack Library School
2. You Call It Professionalism; I Call It Oppression in a Three-Piece Suit by Carmen Rios at Everyday Feminism
3. The Ten Commandments of Professionalism by Paula Black at Slaw.ca
4. Librarianship Doesn’t Need Professionals by Sarah Crissinger at the ACRLog

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QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 When someone says you need to look or act professionally what does that look like to you?

Q2 Do you think the concept of professionalism as it currently stands still works in our 2017 context? Or is it completely outdated?

Q3 How do you see professionalism at work in the LIS profession? Do you see any problems with it? What are they?

Q4 If we were to re-define the concept of professionalism for the current times what would it look like?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 8:30 PM ET NEXT MONDAY, OCTOBER 2 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & how to send questions for Mon Sep 18 2017 - 8:30pm ET

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TOPIC

GUEST CHATTERS: Community Outreach Projects in Libraries

9/18 8:30 EST #LISprochat will be hosting a special chat on Community Outreach Projects in Libraries. Two University of Pennsylvania librarians will be the guest chatters, Margaret Janz and Aman Kaur. Here’s some information about them and what they will be talking about:

Margaret Janz (@MargaretJanz) is the data curation librarian at Penn Libraries and a member of the Data Refuge team. She also participates in the Libraries+ Network, a network that grew from Data Refuge that's aimed at creating a sustainable backup curation solution for born-digital federal information.

Margaret will be talking about community outreach as it relates to the Data Refuge project and the associated Data Rescue events. From January through May the Data Refuge team at Penn and our partners worked tirelessly to support libraries and other organizations around the country and abroad organize Data Rescue events. These events were designed to create awareness of the importance and vulnerabilities of the federal environment and climate data and participants were able to help create copies of these data and contribute to other federal information archiving efforts.

Amanpreet Kaur (@akaur0) is the 2015 - 2017 Eugene Garfield Resident in Science Librarianship at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is based in the Biomedical Library. Aman has devoted the last stretch of her residency to Community Health Outreach (https://guides.library.upenn.edu/communityhealth) and will be piloting an information prescription program to encourage credible health information seeking behaviors among patients in Sayre Health Center in West Philadelphia. This pilot program builds upon the existing health corners initiative, the Biomedical Library's partnership with the School of Nursing and the Free Library of Philadelphia. In addition, Aman serves as the 2017 Special Libraries Association (SLA) Philadelphia Chapter Community Outreach Committee Chair. 

The Community Outreach Committee formed earlier this year and has picked 3 initiatives to implement this year:

1. Host two Outdoor Volunteer Days to give back locally. We have a Volunteer Day coming up (http://philadelphia.sla.org/blog/2017/07/29/mt-cuba-center-volunteer-day/)
2. During the Chapter Annual Banquet last spring, Ancil George, the Community Outreach Librarian at the University of Pennsylvania, discussed the importance of school libraries and how we can continue to support elementary and high school students over a dozen public schools in West and South Philadelphia. by collecting books for school libraries in partnership with Penn Libraries and the West Philadelphia Alliance for Children (http://philadelphia.sla.org/blog/2017/08/10/support-school-libraries-in-philly/ )
3. Earlier this year, chapter members were inspired by a national movement to save government web pages and datasets. We would like to host a Data Refuge event to add useful metadata to previously-rescued EPA files to make it easier for people to search for and find the datasets https://www.datarefuge.org/

Aman is excited to share her community outreach experiences at the Penn Libraries and with the SLA Philadelphia Chapter as well as learn about community outreach initiatives at your library and/or with your professional organization.

For this chat, please submit any questions that you have for Margaret and Aman to be asked during the chat as well as any community outreach questions or topics you would like to see covered to LISprochat@gmail.com Or feel free to ask your questions during the chat and share your community outreach experiences!

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 8:30 PM ET MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Sep 11 2017 - 8:30pm ET

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TOPIC

Handling Microaggressions in the Library

Leigh has chosen a very timely and relevant topic for the next chat that I expect a lot of people will have a desire to chime in on. Her inspiration for the chat comes from an article over at Letters to a Young Librarian: Handling Microaggressions in the Library, by Amanda M. Leftwich.

JUST A HEAD'S UP - PLEASE REMEMBER THAT WE'RE CHANGING THE TIME TO 8:30PM ET!

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Have you ever dealt with microaggression on the job? Please share your experience if you are comfortable.

Q2 What resources do you turn to in reference to handling microaggressions in the library?

Q3 What can libraries do better to combat microaggressions?

Q4 What advice can you share with others to handle microaggressions on the job?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 8:30 PM ET MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Aug 14 2017

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TOPIC

Side hustles & library professionals

I've found myself thinking lately of an idea I had a few years back for a side hustle that I never bothered to actually run with. And I know Leigh for sure, and loads of other library professionals out there have side hustles, those related to libraries and those not directly related. I want us to talk about these gigs and these ideas for gigs. Let's explore them together. My main inspiration article for this week is 7 tips to brand your side hustle like a pro from Ms. Career Girl, but you could equally say that my inspiration was also Kevin Sampsell's So You Want to Start Your Own Micro-press? at The Center for Fiction because it was what got me thinking of my old idea again.

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Do you now/have you ever/do you want to at some point, have a side hustle/second gig? Is it LIS related?

Q2 What kind of LIS related side hustles do you think are out there for library and information professionals?

Q3 What tips and resources can you share with those out there who might be interested in starting a LIS related side hustle?

Q4 Do you think your side hustle makes you a better library professional in your day job? How so?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 9 PM ET MONDAY, AUGUST 14 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Jul 24 2017

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TOPIC

Summer Reading & Summer Reading Programs

It's summer, and in LibraryLand that means summer reading and summer reading programs are upon us. This week that's what we're going to talk about, our inspiration article is Read A Book And Win A Ferrari! It’s The Summer Reading Club! by Roz Warren over at HuffPost. If you're at all like me and your library doesn't do summer reading for adults, you might be interested in the BookBub Summer 2017 Reading Challenge, I'm doing this one with my student assistant at work. My library card is getting a good workout lately thanks to it.

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Are you running a summer reading program at your library, or have you in the past? If not, do you have interest?

Q2 What types of activities are you doing for summer reading and for what age groups?

Q3 Where have you been the most successful? The least successful?

Q4 What advice/resources can you share for future summer reading programs?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 9 PM ET MONDAY, JULY 24 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Jul 10 2017

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TOPIC

#LISprochat annual SLA and ALA post-conference chat

This is a yearly feature we run to help those of you who went to either SLA Annual or ALA Annual share what you learned with your colleagues who for whatever reason could not/did not attend.

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Did you go to a conference this year? If yes, what conference and what was your reason for attending?  If not, why not?

Q2 What are your takeaways from  #SLA2017 or #ALAAC17 or other conferences and what did you enjoy the most?

Q3 Tell us about someone who you’ve met at #SLA2017 or #ALAAC17 or other conferences and why are they awesome?

Q4 What did you like least/what you’d like to see change about #SLA2017 or #ALAAC17 or other conferences for next year?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 9 PM ET MONDAY, JULY 10 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Jun 19 2017

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TOPIC

Moving between types of libraries/from libraries to information work or vice versa

This week's chat topic is inspired by Becky Yoose's "Fitting” into the Big Tent: The Role of “Fit” and Moving Between Library Types at Letters to a Young Librarian. I chose this week's topic because transferable skills are always an important thing to talk about and because it's always interesting to think about the differences between types of libraries and between libraries and information work.

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Have you switched between library types or between libraries and info work? which types of libraries? What type of info work?

Q2 What do you think are the most transferable skills a library professional can have?

Q3 How do you sell yourself and your transferable skills to employers?

Q4 What advice do you have for building skills for a new type of library/info work when your day to day job is very different?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 9 PM ET MONDAY, JUNE 19 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Jun 5 2017

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TOPIC

Dealing with difficult library users

Having recently had a situation myself where I wasn't sure exactly how to navigate the issue I was having I thought that a chat on dealing with difficult patrons might be timely. Whether it's grumpy patrons, people who don't want to follow policy, people who make you uncomfortable for whatever reason, or even just vocal people with very different viewpoints to yours we've all had at least one encounter with a patron that could have been labelled as difficult. There are a lot of articles out there about dealing with difficult people in a customer service role, here are 4 that directly relate to the issue in libraries:

1. MLA2010: Black Belt Librarians: Dealing with Difficult Patrons by Brian Herzog at Swiss Army Librarian
2. The #@%& Joys of Library Work by Roz Warren in Metropolis
3. Dealing With Difficult Patrons by Jessica Olin at Letters to a Young Librarian
4. How to Deal with the Grumpy Patron by Gina Martinez in Library Worklife

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 How do you deal with an angry/belligerent patron who is argumentative during your interaction with them?

Q2 Have you ever been made to feel physically unsafe/uncomfortable during an interaction with a patron? How did you deal with it? What changes were made to policies if any because of it?

Q3 What do you do if a patron is loudly espousing a belief of an inflammatory nature in a public space that could make you or other patrons upset?

Q4 How do you deal with disrespectful patrons? i.e. the patrons who don't respect libraries or library workers for whatever reason.

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 9 PM ET MONDAY, JUNE 5 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon May 22 2017

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TOPIC

Dealing with gaps in your resume

Just a reminder Leigh will be hosting the chats for the month of May, Lauren is currently adventuring in England. For the second chat of the month, she's chosen the topic of dealing with resume gaps. Her inspiration is Gaps in Your Resume: Addressing an Interruption in Your Career Path by John Lehner on LIScaeer.com. 

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Have you ever had to deal with a gap on your resume, please share your experience!

Q2 If asked in an interview, how do you explain a gap on your resume?

Q3 Do you do anything different on your resume to deal with a gap? What do you do?

Q4 What advice do you have for handling a gap on a resume?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 9 PM ET MONDAY, MAY 22 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon May 8 2017

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TOPIC

Ageism in the Workplace

Leigh will be hosting the chats for the month of May. For the first chat of the month, she's chosen the topic of ageism in the workplace. Her inspiration is Baby Face in the Workplace by Veronica Leigh Milliner on INALJ. This is a really interesting topic because it affects us all, we feel it early in our career when we're young, and we feel it when we're late into our careers as well. 

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1. Have you ever had to deal with ageism in the workplace? Please share your experience!

Q2. What kind of work still needs to be done regarding patron’s biases towards librarians and within libraries themselves?

Q3. What steps are you taking in your library or community to address ageism?

Q4. What advice do you have for librarians and info pros on handling ageism in the workplace?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 9 PM ET MONDAY, MAY 8 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Apr 24 2017

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TOPIC

Libraries, LIS pros & the Open Movement

I’m currently taking the Introduction to OERs course that Library Juice Academy (#LJAOER) offers because Open Educational Resources and the Open Movement, in general, are becoming big topics of conversation in my workplace and in my entire province. Given the discussions happening in my course I can tell it’s happening elsewhere too so I thought we could have this week’s chat be about the open movement and libraries. Our inspiration article/source, therefore, is The Open Movement: What Libraries Can Do a 2015 conference presentation by Sheila Corrall. Another source you can check out is my Notes from #ONOERlibrarians day @ Ryerson University during the one-day conference I attended in March.

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1. What do you already know about the open movement? (e.g. Open Access, Creative Commons, Open Data, Open Source & OERs)

Q2. Is your library/are you specifically already involved with any part(s) of the open movement? Which parts? What are you doing?

Q3. What do you see being the role of libraries and library professionals being in the future of the open movement?

Q4. What suggestions/resources do you have for library pros looking to learn more about/get involved with the open movement?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 9 PM ET MONDAY, APRIL 24 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Apr 10 2017

TOPIC

Figuring out what is good career advice and what isn't

The chat topic for Monday, April 10, 2017's chat is inspired by first and foremost the end of the last #LISprochat where we sort of started talking about this and I mentioned it would be a good topic for a future chat. For some reading on this topic, head over to Alison Green's advice blog Ask a Manager and check out the Bad Advice tag. Alison's got one of the best career advice websites out there.

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1. What's the best advice you ever received, what's the worst?

Q2. What tricks and tips do you have for how you can tell what advice is good or bad? 

Q3. What resources do you use for good advice?

Q4. What are some resources you avoid & tell others to avoid because you know they give bad advice?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 9 PM ET MONDAY, MARCH 27 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Mar 27 2017

TOPIC

Dealing with setbacks in the job search & on the job

The chat topic for Monday, March 27, 2017's chat is actually inspired by three articles: Moving Forward: How to Overcome a Career Failure by Lindsay Danas Cohen at The Muse; Bouncing Back from Job Loss: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Job Hunters by Margie Warrell at Forbes, and How I've Learned to Overcome Setbacks in my Life and Career by Chris Winfield at FastCompany. I couldn't just pick one article that had every aspect I was looking to highlight so that's why this topic has three inspirations

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1. What are your go-to strategies for dealing with a setback during the job search or on the job?

Q2. How do you make peace with setbacks/failures? What kind of feedback do you look for and where?

Q3. Who are your go-to survivors that you look too for inspiration when you're feeling down from a setback?

Q4. What resources and strategies do you have for dealing with stress after a setback in the job search or on the job?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 9 PM ET MONDAY, MARCH 27 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Mar 13 2017

TOPIC

Digital portfolios & personal websites in the LIS industry

The chat topic for Monday, March 13, 2017's chat is inspired by Job Talk Column: The Online Portfolio: No Longer Optional? by Lisa Campbell in NMRT's Footnotes. 

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1. Do you think that digital portfolios/personal websites are necessary for #librarians & #librarytechnicians? Why or why not?

Q2. Do you now, or have you ever had an LIS related personal website or digital portfolio? How did you build it?

Q3. What types of information/items need to be in/on a personal website or digital portfolios?

Q4. What tips, tricks, & tools are there for a #librarian or #librarytechnician looking to build their own site or portfolio?

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#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Feb 27 2017

TOPIC

Mentorships : finding and being a mentor

The chat topic for Monday, February 27, 2017's chat is inspired by Feed Your Career Octopus: Tips For Finding (And Keeping) Awesome Mentors by Meredith Fineman at FastCompany. 

QUESTIONS

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Q1. Have you taken advantage of professional mentorships? Why or why not?

Q2. What resources have you used to find professional mentorships?

Q3. For those who have been able to act as a mentor, what sort of advice do you hope to give? 

Q4. Any thoughts on how to make such a relationship productive for all involved?  What makes a really good mentor-mentee relationship?

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#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Feb 13 2017

TOPIC

Tips for running job training in the workplace

The chat topic for Monday, February 13, 2017's chat is inspired by How to Easily Train Another Person to Do Your Job by David Livermore at ToughNickel. 

QUESTIONS

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Q1. Have you ever done work related training please share your experience!

Q2. What are some do and don’t for work related training?

Q3. What resources do you turn to for work related training?

Q4. What advice do you have to make training at work a success?

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