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Strategic Volunteering: Boost Your Career Without Burnout
In the professional world, the line between overextending and building a career can get blurry, especially when it comes to unpaid professional work. While I firmly believe that everyone deserves fair compensation for their labor, I also recognize the value that strategic volunteering can bring to long-term career development.
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Aligning Your Work with What Truly Matters
Whether you’re a solo librarian, part of a team, or managing a department, these time management strategies will help you focus on what matters most and reduce the noise that distracts you from your core mission.
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Transforming My Workflows with ChatGPT
AI tools like ChatGPT are revolutionizing how we work and manage our time. With the right prompts, these tools can be incredibly efficient, saving time and enhancing productivity. I started getting serious about my ChatGPT prompts after I read a blog post that described the CIDI prompt framework.
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Laid Off, Lifted Up
I’m always chasing new experiences—but I could’ve done without the experience of being laid off.
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Caring Leadership
I recently completed an assessment that measured my leadership traits. One of my top traits was caring. I consider myself fairly self-aware, so this wasn’t a huge surprise to me. But it got me thinking more deeply about the role of “caring” in leadership.
Kathryn Vela
Librarian at Large
Kathryn Vela 