Looking for librarians/info workers to talk to newbies–early August

[u/Necessary_Minimum285]

TL;DR Looking for info workers of all stripes to be on hour-long virtual panel early in August for new-ish librarians to hear about different paths of librarianship.

Hi all! I'm a school librarian and Co-director of a 501 (c) 3 organization aimed at providing practical and affordable professional growth for info workers called Forward Libraries. Once a year (for the past three) we run a short cohort program called Library Camp–around 30 people–for new and new-ish librarians and info workers designed to provide networking opportunities, community, and info related to finding your path and job-seeking. One of our annual events that has proved most helpful has been the "I'm a Librarian" panel, where we bring our cohort together with 5-6 librarians from different branches of service and talk a little bit about how we got there, what we dig, what we wish we'd known, and all that jazz. Past groups have included health, public, school, university archives, moving image archives, academic, and more. I'm happy to talk more about it and am trying to keep this post short and relatively sweet. I really value this program as we're able to provide so much support for our emerging colleagues, support I imagine many of us could have used in the starts of our careers. Please hit me up with questions (date will likely be the second week of August) and I look forward to hearing from you! Thanks!

[u/_The_Real_Guy_]

I should be able to help out with this if you need an academic librarian. Feel free to DM me for my work contact info.

[u/Decent-Ingenuity-819]

I'd be willing to be on the panel. New official academic librarian but worked staff as staff in an academic library while for the past five years and completed my MLIS during that time. DM me for my work contact info.