Welcome back to Season 2b of the Hiring Librarians podcast!
My guest this episode is Kim Dority, who has a career she describes as “somewhat eclectic.” In addition to her work in research and information advising, she is an LIS Career expert. Her credentials include two books, LIS Career Sourcebook (Libraries Unlimited, 2012) and Rethinking Information Work, 2d ed (Libraries Unlimited, 2016); she was already well established in this space when I first started Hiring Librarians back in 2012. You’ll note that this episode was actually recorded eight months ago – editing took at least seven months longer than expected (that’s all on me!) In the recording we talk somewhat flippantly about a few things that are much more real now – the defunding of the IMLS and the desire of the current Federal administration to stop folks from reading books (or just freely existing).
An AI-generated and not completely error free transcript is here.
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