Sue Hutley, Director of Library Services at Queensland University of Technology, thanks all contributors to the career advice slide deck. The deck contains heartwarming and inspiring advice that will benefit new librarians. Contributors include directors and librarians from various organizations who provide tips such as taking risks, learning from others, and finding your passion. The summary concludes by thanking several specific contributors.

1. Sue Hutley
Director, Library Services
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Brisbane, Australia
Twitter - @suehutley
Email - sue.hutley@qut.edu.au
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2. Thank you Contributors!
A big thank you to all who answered the call
and made contributions to this career advice
slide deck. Your heart-warming and inspiring
advice will no-doubt be beneficial to those
who are beginning their career in
librarianship.

3. Aileen Weir
Director, Reader Services
National Library of Australia
@AileenWeir

4. 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/machinemade/4210787345
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/3584172834
AlexandreDelbos(2007)“HappyCrowd”CCBY2.0)
Remember to Be humble
Say Yes when opportunity
comes knocking
Jane Cowell
Director Engagement & Partnerships
State Library of Queensland
@janecowell8

5. Find your motivation
Find your heart
Make time to think
Make time to plan
Be nice to people…
for the right reasons
Do something that matters, plan to do it well, have fun while you’re at it.
Carmel O’Sullivan, Director (Library Services), USQ.
@C_OSulliv

6. "GLAM-WIKI 2015 in The Hague (24)" by BvdW. Licensed under CC0 via Wikimedia
Commons
We belong to an
international community.
The GLAM sector around
the world is diverse and
it's full of passionate,
creative people like you.
It's a lot of fun being a
"global librarian".
Mylee Joseph
@myleejoseph
GLAM-WIKI 2015
Volunteer
Programme Committee

8. “If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity
but you are not sure you can do it, say yes –
then learn how to do it later!” – Richard Branson
Amy Croft
@amyecroft
Branson, R. (2013, September 18). Say yes, then learn how to do it later [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/say-yes-then-learn-how-to-do-it-later
Mills, A. (2011). 13746 [Image]. Retrieved July 8, 2015, from http://phil.cdc.gov/PHIL_Images/13746/13746_lores.jpg (CC0 1.0)

9. Find the positives
Trust that everything will work out
how it is meant to
@LisaKeogh75

10. But it is possible to do really exciting,
amazing things while juggling kids and
work. You just need good organisational
support. And you get that support by
putting your hand up, taking risks and
proving you can get stuff done.
If you show people you can achieve things
working part-time, or school hours, or
whatever suits your family, then chances
are your organisation will be happy to
work around you.
You’re a parent, you are already amazing at
multi-tasking and time management, so
just transfer that to the workplace.
Motherhood doesn’t always look this relaxing (or neat!).
Kids plus work is sometimes really hard…
Kathleen Smeaton
@kathleensme
CC image courtesy National Media Museum via Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/3589579030

12. Work Hard. Really really hard. And
smart. But mainly hard.
Keep learning and thinking and
writing and presenting and talking
and listening about your profession.
All the time. Be obsessed.
Also, do yoga. Holger Aman
@leatherboundlib

13. “I am always doing what I cannot do yet,
in order to learn how to do it.”
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Night Over the Rhone (1888). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Starry_Night_Over_the_Rhone.jpg. Public domain licence.
Sam Searle
@datalibsam

14. Life begins at the end of your
comfort zone.
--Neale Donald Walsch
Celia Drummond
Visual Assets Librarian
World Vision
@sealeea

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16. You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
The Gambler. Lyrics by Don Schlitz
and recorded by American country
music artist Kenny Rogers.
Kenny Rogers. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. July 16, 2015. http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/p15195coll6/item/278.
Christine Busby
Team Leader,
Library and Customer Services,
Te Puke, New Zealand

17. Wise words from my journalism tutor, Jim Tully
-Laura Caygill
@LauraInTheLibes

18. Find great people to work with, be inspired by,
learn from and share with!
Always say ‘yes’; you can figure out
the details later. Embrace all
opportunities.
Professor Helen Partridge
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Scholarly Information and Learning Services) &
Executive Director, Australian Digital Futures Institute
Enjoy being outside your comfort zone. Challenge
yourself, take risks, fail.
Be true to yourself; know your
strengths, and areas to improve.
Follow your passions!
"Monster.com-Ballerina"byCarlosVarela,usedunderCCBy2.0/Croppedfromoriginal

19. Ask yourself:
What can I do to enable my library to
make my community smarter?
@janholmquist - janholmquist.net
How can I keep on learning with my
global personal learning network?

20. “…achieving a goal is
overrated. It is the
journey and your fellow
travellers that are the
point”.
- Brewster Kahle
“Don’t just be yourself, be all
of your selves. Don’t just
live, be that other thing
connected to death. Be life.
Live all of your life.
Understand it, see it,
appreciate it, and have fun”.
- Joss Whedon
Wesleyan Commencement Speech, 2013
Nagarajan Kanna, ‘Enjoy the journey, not the destination’, 2014, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Jaye Weatherburn @jayechats
It’s the journey, not the destination…

21. Be a Library nerd… visit all the libraries you can in
every part of the world. Be proud of the global
community we thrive in. Be proud to call yourself a
Librarian.
Annette Messell
@nettymess

22. Jessica Howie
Subject Librarian University of Waikato
@JesselizH
Be stubborn about your goals,
and flexible about your
methods.
“Stubborn" By Bill Lapp, used under CC By 2.0

23.  Look the part
 Seize the day
 Adopt reflective practice – read and write
 Network
 Watch, listen and learn from others - and
one’s own mistakes
 Don’t burn your bridges – you never know
when you might want to walk back over
them
 Shamelessly steal good ideas – best ones
come from our users
 Learn something new every day
 Reinvent yourself
 Believe in yourself and trust others
 Be genuine, grateful and gracious
Passion + Plan + Purpose + Partners
= Prosperity
Janine Schmidt,
Director, Mukurta
Solutions and
Trenholme Director of
Libraries Emerita,
McGill University
janine@mukurta.com

24. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Image by John Haslam licensed for reuse: https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxypar4/1852428153
AUTHENTICITY IS CRITICAL FOR CAREER SUCCESS
 Understand yourself and build your own brand
 Influencing is a skill – identify and build key relationships and be genuine
 Be happy for other’s success – don’t resent them or see it as your failing
 Learn to handle your emotions intelligently
 Keep your eye on the long term goal
Jill Benn
University Librarian,
University of Western
Australia
@jillebenn

25. Be Nosy: by that I mean be inquisitive. Find out as
much as you can about your organisation, what they do,
how they do it and where there is a need.
Once you find that need, think about innovative
ways to fill it and then do it… you will be surprised where
that takes you.
Advice given by Emily Albon, Law Librarian, London City University to the
Australian Law Librarians’ conference, Adelaide, 10-12 September 2014
Karen Rowe-Nurse
Law Liaison Librarian
University of Notre Dame Australia
@kazgirl123

26. Karina Tumon
@Karina_Tumon

27. Work for
people & orgs
who inspire
you… If it gets
stale, move
on.
Study project
methodology
formally &
chase project
work.
This is where
the fun is!
Learn to be
a great team
member - give
all you can to a
good culture.
Seek out
change and
learn to thrive
in a changing
environment.
Careeradvice…
KateKirby
Manager–InformationManagementServices
UniversityX

28. Photo by julochka - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License https://www.flickr.com/photos/24209378@N03 Created with Haiku Deck
Step out of your comfort zone: embrace non-traditional
library paths and challenge yourself to learn new skills.
ALL. THE. TIME.
Katie Haden, OCLC
(new graduate 2013)
@katie_haden

29. Be brave,
be passionate,
be open minded,
and…
be ready to find a different ladder!
Wendy Allan
@wendyallan3
Katrina Trewin @trewkat
Library
library.uws.edu.au
Image credit: Katrina Trewin, 2015. Slide content licenced using CC BY 3.0 AU

30. Library Career
Advice
• Get involved in your
library associations,
groups and local library
community – future
supervisors may note your
involvement
• Volunteer to assist with
library events – that
assistance may pay
dividends in the future
• Network at Library
training – introduce
yourself to people in
other library sectors
Kym Holden,
Asst. Director,
Library Research & Information Services,
Dept. of Social Services
SLA ANZ President
ALIA Special Libraries Advisory Committee
AGLIN Executive

31. We are in a service industry. For many of us, that
involves caring about and for the needs of others,
specifically the information needs of others. We put a
lot of time and energy into raising awareness about
the value of what we do for the benefit of others.
When we work in roles that focus on serving others
for a long time, it can take a toll. Career resilience for
information professionals must address the need for
self-care. If we take care of our physical, mental and
emotional wellbeing, we are better placed to take
care of others.
Career resilience for information professionals should
include a plan to care for all aspects of our health and
employers need to be mindful of these strategies.
Many of us will see our careers span more than 30 or
40 years. While we may differ in what we seek to
achieve during that time, it is a significant period of
time to invest in serving others. We need to invest in
ourselves to ensure we reach our goals.
Career resilience is
about self-care
RunningbyisskeezeislicensedunderCC01.0
Lyndelle Gunton
Queensland State Manager, ALIA
Librarian, Trinity Theological Library
@lyndelleg

32. In my life, I recognize a pervasive theme – using information to learn
– which gained rich expression through various professional roles
and evolving research agendas. So I say: courageously and
passionately pursue your life giving curiosities in making career
choices.
Image: Milky Muisc VI – Explore by pascalbovet.com under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Mary M. Somerville, University Librarian, University of Colorado Denver, USA and
Adjunct Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

33. Maureen Sullivan
Director, Information Management
Griffith University
Demonstrate:
Bold, Persistent, Experimentation
Barack Obama via Franklin Roosevelt
Practice:
Resilience – the ability to not just
bounce back but bounce forward

34. Work hard
Be friendly
Get involved
Pixie Stardust, Senior Archivist Marni Trevena, Teacher Librarian

35. Sacred Cows stop us from moving forward, so
let’s get rid of them: library catalogue is the be-
all and end-all, adherence to strict cataloguing
rules, librarians only work in libraries, libraries
are all about books, librarians are conservative
and risk averse, etc, etc, etc.
Ruth Quinn, Director
Library Services, CDU –
soon to retire:
@ruthquinn

36. Photo by CRASH:candy - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License https://www.flickr.com/photos/91903883@N00 Created with Haiku Deck

37. It’s good to have a
PLAN
But be open to
serendipity
Sue McKerracher, CEO, ALIA @ALIANational

38. Career tips for new graduates
• Make the most of your "transferable skills".
• Do your very best in your studies and don't be
afraid to show your accomplishments.
• Think laterally; consider
"information" jobs in a
variety of organisations.
Krista Meulengracht
Reference Librarian, NSW Parliamentary Library
@krista_hayden
krista.meulengracht@parliament.nsw.gov.au

39. Polly-Alida Farrington
Librarian
@pollyalida

40. Sonia Boccardo
Ghylene Palmer
Jacqueline Mooney tumblr. image [http://illuminology.tumblr.com/post/69680387281/meraki-n-the-soul-creativity-or-love-put]

41. Bring your heart with you
Develop your Personal Learning
Network
http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/01/opinion/michael-stephens/reflective-practice-office-hours/
Be a reflective practitioner.
Embrace curiosity and creativity.
http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/07/opinion/michael-stephens/color-me-curious-office-hours/
http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/01/opinion/michael-stephens/actions-and-answers-office-hours/
http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/06/opinion/michael-stephens/learning-to-learn-office-hours/
Michael Stephens - @mstephens7

42. CC BY-NC 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyantis/
“I've learned that people will forget what you
said, people will forget what you did, but
people will never forget how you made them
feel.”
– Maya Angelou
Sue Hutley @suehutley

43. 
Annette Messell @nettymess
Fiona Watkin @fionawatkin
Lauren Woodlands @QuirkyWoodlands
Kathleen Smeaton @kathleensme
Special Thanks….