Librarian Lifestyle

Librarian Lifestyle is Back!

In Uncategorized on May 6, 2013 at 6:29 am

Dear Readers,

After a 6 month hiatus, Librarian Lifestyle is back. We’ll be featuring travel, fashion, and the cool library stuff you’ve come to expect from us.

Have you done something awesome you want to share with librarians from around the world? Or maybe you want to let our your inner fashionista? Perhaps you just need to cure a case of wanderlust? Consider writing something for Librarian Lifestyle. Just email us with your ideas at librarianlifestyle@gmail.com.

Yours in library love,

Karen

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Cycling for Libraries Fundraiser

In Conferences on April 8, 2013 at 6:18 pm

This summer three awesome librarians Karen Holt, Barbara Fullerton, and April Kessler will embark on an international library adventure with Cycling For Libraries. This unconference offers a week of library workshops, debates, and tours with a diverse group of 100 international librarians from 22 countries cycling 250+ miles from Amsterdam to Brussels. Cycling for libraries is an international cycling conference that aims to advocate for libraries and increase awareness of the valuable services and resources that libraries offer to the community.


We could use your help.

Your donation can help us cover registration fees which include room and board, bike rental, and travel expenses. Every little bit helps and we appreciate anything you can donate.

To Donate:
Expenses:
  • Registration – $325 per person
  • Bike Rental – $100 per person
  • Flight – $1500 per person


Other Ways You Can Help

Even if you can’t donate, you can still help by spreading the word about our campaign. Thank you for helping us take this amazing adventure for libraries!

AND, if you are attending the TXLA annual meeting in Ft. Worth on April 24th-27th, visit our Booth #1013 in the Exhibit Hall!


A bit about us…

Barbara, Karen, and April


Barbara Fullerton has been in the information professional field for over 15 years, with experience in vendor relations, and corporate and law libraries. She has a Master’s in Library and Information Science from Emporia State University in Kansas. Barbara is an active member in DALL, SLA, President of the Texas SLA Chapter, and is currently on the Advisory Board of UNT’s College of Information.


Karen Holt is the the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Librarian Lifestyle. She works as a librarian at Northwestern University in Qatar. Before moving to the Middle East Karen worked as the Communication Librarian at the University of Texas at Austin where she was the subject specialist for advertising, journalism, radio-television-film, and communication studies.


April Kessler is the Business Librarian at the University of Texas at Austin.She received her MSIS from UT and her MBA from Wichita State University. April is the Past President the Texas Chapter of the Special Libraries Association and serves on the Executive Board of the Texas Library Association. She is also the co-founder of the business research blog, bizologie.



We’ll be blogging about our adventures on Librarian Lifestyle and Bizologie this summer, so stay tuned!

Yours in library love,

Karen Holt

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Librarian Lifestyle Goes International

In Careers, Editor's Column on October 26, 2012 at 7:10 am

Dear Readers,

With our travel guides and posts about international conferences, you may have noticed that we have had an American and European focus here at LL. Now, we’re expanding to the Middle East.

I’m very happy to say that I have accepted a position as the Technical Services Librarian at Northwestern University in Qatar and I begin my new job on November 1. The campus is located in Doha, a fascinating city of one million people and the capital of Qatar. I’m super excited about my new job and about living in the Middle East!

As you can imagine, I have had so many things to organize over the last month that I’ve fallen a bit behind on the LL postings. Now I’m back and ready to blog about all things related to the librarian lifestyle.

My next post will be about how I found this position, so stay tuned.

Yours in library love,

Karen Holt

Enjoying my first cup of tea on my balcony in Doha after the 20 hour journey to get here from Austin, TX.

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