[Publib] Council, Employment, and so on

[Valerie Doyle]

Hi Michael (and all),

 

Have you considered moving?  We have a great job available in Jackson, TN,
but not so many great applicants.

 

Valerie

 

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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 3:58 PM
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Subject: [Publib] Council, Employment, and so on

 

Greetings all.   In today's mail I have received a nice note from some
person who wishes me to run again for ALA Council; also, and likely not by
coincidence, an email message from somebody on the nominating committee.
This atop a few other such communications over the past few weeks.  First,
I'd like to say thanks very much for the vote of confidence in my abilities,
such as they have been demonstrated.  

 

Second, I'd like to say that I will send out a nomination acceptance and a
new profile just as soon as I get a library job.  I promise, absolutely
promise, that the very moment that one of the libraries which claim to be
hiring constantly in these parts lowers itself to putting me on the payroll,
that I will rush my assent to serve by overnight mail.  Until then, I await
the responses from such places as the Los Angeles Public Library (half a
dozen interviews), the Los Angeles County Public Library (many interviews,
score of 105 out of 100 possible), and of course many dozens of others, with
the same, precise, identical result:  nothing.  

 

I have become convinced that applying to public libraries for work gives
about the same degree of return as phishing for loans in the guise of a
Nigerian Supreme Court Justice.  By the way and speaking of Council, perhaps
I should mention that there are or have been some ALA Councilors to whom
I've applied for work, and who were as cordial colleagues just happy as hell
to turn me down.  A couple of them were on the interview committees.
Nothing like networking to help a guy's career, eh?  Just think how bad off
I'd have been if I didn't know all these important folks.  Why, I might be
applying for bus driver gigs and shovel work.

 

Which I am.  Or should that be, "have?"  And so we have a race going on
here, a contest which may be witnessed by any who so desire:  I have
applications in for jobs delving the soil at county facilities, driving
public transportation and cleaning kennels.  This is only the top of the
list.  At the bottom I've sent in forms to become one of those guys who
picks up beer cans on public highways, and I confess to actually submitting
to libraries for page work, though that seems a long shot.  The best chance
appears to be in the bus driving line, that is, if I can pass the alcohol
test.  There isn't any alcohol test for librarian, but there do seem to be
significant barriers.  At the same time, I've put in for librarian jobs at
the same old places and others.  The short straw gets me.  If the fortunate
party is a library, then the Council nominating committee may expect to see
my answer; if not, then I'm likely to become a representative of the bus
driver's local, which may actually hold their conventions in better places
than Orlando in mid-summer.  

 

In any event, time marches on, and I really would like to get to work on
that minimum salary resolution for non-librarians.  That seems to me an
absolutely essential partner to the salary resolution for librarians, and
should certainly be pursued.  The alternative is to do a bunch of new
research on dog kennel perks, and I don't want to get too deep into that.
See you around town.

 

Michael McGrorty

former Councilor-at-large, will work for drinks





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