tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-281585512024-09-27T21:18:58.842-04:00<i>Empowering librarians and their patrons</i><br><br> I'm one of those lucky people who loves being a librarian. Even with all my enthusiasm for what I do, I still struggle to balance my passion for librarianship with the other things I love, like my family and friends. In this blog, I explore the challenge of achieving that elusive work-life balance amid the joys and triumphs of being a librarian in the 21st century.Callinan the Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497005891378805186noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28158551.post-42771483755347459852008-09-17T10:48:00.003-04:002008-09-17T11:01:57.016-04:00

I came across an interesting initiative out of UC Hastings called the Project for Attorney Retention [http://www.pardc.org/ ]. This page includes observations from attorneys who have been working part-time inside DC law firms: http://www.pardc.org/LawFirm/real_life.shtml. Their comments echoed my conversations with yesterday morning's walking group that included two doctors and a career federal

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Washington's American University has launched a Lawyer Re-Entry Program for attorneys looking to return to their careers after taking time off. See this link for the press release. What a great idea! We need something like this for librarians.The announcement prompted me to do a quick search for information on career re-entry for librarians. I did find a Yahoo group for stay-at-home librarians

Callinan the Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497005891378805186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28158551.post-34097482169815912622008-07-22T12:25:00.004-04:002008-07-22T13:25:59.812-04:00

In the nearly three years since I've been consulting from home, traditional weekends have gradually disappeared from my work routine. It's now more unusual for me not to work on a weekend than it is for me to draft a section of a report or perform some other work task on a Saturday or Sunday. Kind of reminds me of my days at Crowell &amp; Moring when I typically worked at least part of one day

Callinan the Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497005891378805186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28158551.post-87372252102308679122008-05-08T11:15:00.007-04:002008-05-08T11:54:43.364-04:00

Joe Hodnicki posted an abstract of an interesting article entitled Parenthood and Productivity: A Study of Demands, Resources and Family-Friendly Firms, on Law Librarian Blog a few days ago. Sociologists Jean Wallace and Marisa Young examined the impact of family friendly policies on the billable hours of 670 attorneys in Alberta law firms. It turns out that . . . just a second . . .“Maggie?

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The Washington Post ran a terrific article yesterday entitled, "After a Baby, Full Time or Part?" written by former Life at Work columnist Amy Joyce. (Yup, she had a baby and adjusted her career a bit.) Her article explores the choices some women in DC have made in order to balance careers and young children. In the article, Ms. Joyce uses a phrase I hadn't heard before - career as a lattice

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Callinan the Librarian has a new look, designed to complement the soon-to-be launched new website over at Axelroth &amp; Associates. I joined Joan Axelroth and Mary Talley last year and have enjoyed our association enormously. Joan hired me to work at Crowell &amp; Moring in 1985 so we go way back. Mary and I just feel like we go way back. Together we're making the world better for librarianship!

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I had such high hopes for this year’s Computers in Libraries conference. Since I’m not going to be able to attend AALL or SLA, this was to be my only conference this year. Life began to conspire to keep me from my appointed rounds.My annual presentation at Georgetown’s summer associate program fell right in the middle of CIL this year, a new twist resulting from CIL’s move from March to April.

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A few weeks ago, there was a flurry of media coverage on a study released by the University of Maryland in which sociologist Suzanne Bianchi and her colleagues found that women are actually spending more time engaged in child-rearing now than did their counterparts in 1965. As I listened to the coverage on the Today Show and read stories and blog posts all over the Net, one particular aspect of

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So . . . since my last post, I’ve been busy balancing. School started for the kids and life has been moving at warp speed ever since. I’ve:helped with hours of homework, organized class parties, baked countless cupcakes, attended soccer and basketball practices and games, hosted play dates and birthday parties, run a Brownie troop, rehearsed for plays, made spider, turkey, heart-shaped and

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The Fork in the Road: Can Women and Wall Street Live Together? By Jenny Anderson (B1, NYT, 8/6/06)The cover story in the Times’ Sunday Business section focused on the work-life balance dilemma playing out on Wall Street. Not surprisingly, it’s the same story, different location - successful women at the top of their game, opting out to raise families, leaving an industry willing, but unsure how,

Callinan the Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497005891378805186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28158551.post-1153938103364128242006-07-26T14:04:00.000-04:002006-07-26T14:21:43.376-04:00

A couple of years ago, the American Association of Law Libraries published profiles of several librarians as a recruitment tool for the profession. I was among the librarians profiled in a piece entitled, “Change is Good . . . Even if You Love What You Do”. In it, I described my decision to balance my family and career by switching from a full-time law firm career to a part-time academic one.As a

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If you've watched any NBC news program in the last 24 hours, you probably saw the story by Dawn Fratangelo on what working women want - more time! The piece is based on a Career Builder survey released in May that reveals that fifty-two percent of working moms would take a pay cut to spend more time with their children. That figure stood at 38 percent last year. Dissatisfaction with the work-life

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The Career Journal, the executive career site of the Wall Street Journal, has released its 2006 Best Careers report, which identifies eight careers that offer high job satistfaction. The top attributes of winning careers include:Good intellectual stimulation;Strong job security;High level of control and freedom in what to do;Extensive direct contact with customers/clients. Think librarianship

Callinan the Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497005891378805186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28158551.post-1151268620108287732006-06-25T16:38:00.000-04:002006-06-25T16:50:20.116-04:00

I just stumbled across a great resource, Clay Nelson's free ebook The Balanced Life. It contains short, inspiring articles on finding professional and personal fulfillment and having fun at the same time. Wish I read the article entitled "Vacation Time - Don't Waste It" last Sunday! Oh, well!Download your own copy at this link before you go on vacation!

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Lisa Belkin, whose column about the intersection of jobs and personal lives appears every other week in the New York Times, recently covered the Hidden Brain Drain Summit (Blueprints for Plugging a Brain Drain, June 18, 2006). A project of Sylvia Ann Hewlett's Center for Work-Life Policy, the summit brought together representatives from major companies to discuss strategies for retaining female

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If you're considering discussing a flexible work arrangement with your boss, you might want to prepare a written proposal, if for no other reason than to help clarify your own thoughts. The Microsoft website contains all sorts of sample documents for business, academic and personal writing, including this nifty Flexible Work Arrangement Proposal form at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates

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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is supporting the Workplace Flexibility 2010 campaign to support the development of a comprehensive national policy on workplace flexibility at the federal, state and local levels. Their website contains useful information about the campaign along with links to information on work and family, including webcasts of events sponsored by the campaign. There's also a

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Jenny Levine's (aka The Shifted Librarian) comments on retaining our profession's best and brightest struck a chord with me. In her post on April 10, 2006, Jenny said:Ask yourself what your library is doing to value your top staff (all of them, not just the traditional, stereotypical functionaries), to create a collaborative environment (especially between generations and between various job

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The first thing you should know about me is that I'm the daughter of a librarian. Mary Lillian Howley Callinan is the original Callinan the Librarian. She inspires me personally and professionally - and has a fan club of former colleagues across the Northeast. Growing up as the daughter of a librarian made me pretty passionate about the profession.My mother received her undergraduate degree in

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