photo courtesy of flickr user Vancouver Public Library
I’m on the job hunt.’ I have been for some time despite loving my job.’ I’m lucky enough to have found a position fairly quickly after graduating doing pretty much exactly what I want to do, being a teen librarian. ‘ I am also the first teen librarian my library has ever had.’ Yes, they have a separated YA collection (an only slightly more recent addition than me), but they had yet to offer a cohesive teen program let alone have a staff member devoted to the teens and to creating programming for them before I started working there.’ I got to start from scratch; to try out programs I thought would be fun and throw out things I saw didn’t work.’ It’s been a lot of work and while there is so much I would change or do differently and so many things I really want to do with my teens; I think that my first year as a Teen Librarian at a library experiencing their first year with teen centered programming, has been a great success.’ (I reserve the right to take back that statement after I see how our first teen summer reading program goes!)
But remember, I said I’m on the job hunt.’ Not because I don’t love my job, I really do.’ I’m looking for a new position because I am only part-time.