Category: Librarianship
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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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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.
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Welcome to AHIP (again)!
After a few years of lapsed membership, I was able to rejoin the Academy of Health Information Professionals at the Senior level! I’m very excited to add a few more letters after my name, and the extra motivation to participate in professional activities is a nice bonus. For anyone unfamiliar with this certification, AHIP is…
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My Experience at “Systematic Reviews and Evidence Synthesis Beyond the Health Sciences: A Training for Librarians”
I’ve been interested in taking a systematic review workshop for the past two or three years, since my previous library discussed starting a formal systematic review service. This year, I was finally able to attend a virtual workshop organized by the Cornell University Library, “Systematic Reviews and Evidence Synthesis Beyond the Health Sciences: A Training…
Kathryn Vela 