Today

was mostly about redesigning my résumé, curriculum vitae, and references pages, along with making business cards, all of which have the same 'brand' in terms of design, font, etc. My résumé, based on a template I found on the internet that was supposed to be updated to 2017's 'look', is a two-column format with very concise information on it. My CV is all one-column, five pages, but contains everything from my work and education history to my professional activities, committees, teaching experience, and publications. It's for academic/faculty positions. The cards have my contact info on one side and a short blurb of what I'm about professionally on the back. The references page is simple, but has the word 'references' going down the side. All of them have a touch of blue very similar to my interview suit. I'm hoping this all looks much cleaner and more professional than the table-format résumé I had. This seems almost like a unified business stationary.

I printed everything out, went to Office Depot and got some business card paper, and went over a little early to pick A up from work, and sat in the hot car with the windows down proofreading, finding quite a few ways to simplify things to a more concise use of language (one of my faults is my wordiness, as I'm sure you've figured out).

After I took him to get his hair cut and dropped him off, I came back, opened the apartment windows, and started making corrections. I printed out a sheet of the cards. (I got the sides mixed up, but I don't think you can really tell). I made 'web' versions of both the résumé and CV [without my address or phone number], posted them on Google Sites at the links on the right sidebar, copied and pasted them in a format that could be easily read when going to those pages, and printed the regular ones out again.

I have a job to apply for tomorrow, and another one I'm going to apply for next week. This will help. I also plan to go to the career center (unemployment office) and library next week and have the materials critiqued and get some feedback. I welcome any comment from those of you who might be more in the know regarding what employers are looking for these days. Just choose Résumé or Curriculum Vitae on the sidebar or the links on this post and to see the formatted versions, open up the document (.pdf) link. Look them over, and let me know what you think. I'd really appreciate it.

I know that they normally look at three references, but I've had one librarian, three nurses, and two doctors offer to be references, so I have them all on the sheet, indicating which ones were supervisors, which were patrons, and which are colleagues. The next two applications will be to the University of Kentucky, and three of the references have ties there. So I think that's promising.

Okay, I think I'm going to take a break. It's been a fairly busy day. I'll probably write later.

*Fingers crossed*

I've been working on my curriculum vitae in earnest the last few days, as I have a position I'm going to apply for that, while in a hospital, is administered by a university and therefore requires a CV rather than a résumé, which is nice, as I can actually put relevant things on it that I couldn't do on the shorter document, like my professional activities and publications. Now I just have to do the cover letter/letter of interest, which is the hardest for me. Please think good thoughts for me--my position is being eliminated when the hospital moves to its new medical centre model in 2017, and this is not only a librarian position, it's a solo hospital librarian position, but for a larger organisation, and it's here in Lexington. I am positively giddy at the opportunity! And it's full-time as a librarian, so I wouldn't be doing two-three positions to be full time in various parts of the hospital like I do now. I can actually concentrate on serving patrons all through the workweek! Anyone great at critiquing who would like to look it over before I send it to them? Check out the link on the sidebar to my CV. Thanks!

I've been revising

my résumé and my curriculum vitae, and changing the ones online (essentially the same, without my address and phone numbers) to reflect the edits. If you're used to reviewing these sorts of things, I'd love to have some input on the format and content. Thanks!

I had a new book review published this month

so I updated my curriculum vitae, and was quite amazed to see that I have a total of 31 publications--finding aids, book reviews, collection development recommendations, and book chapters. Wow. Now I should either write a research article or an actual book. :) Anyway, here's a list of what I've published so far:

1. Broadbent, LK, 1986 Checklist of Kentucky State Publications. Frankfort, Ky.: KDLA, 1992 (under former name).
2. Rowan, EE. Providing Library Services in a Unique Pediatric Orthopaedic Setting: Experiences at the Shriners Hospitals for Children. Journal of Hospital Librarianship. 5(2). 2005, pp. 65-72.
3. Rowan, E., Library Selector. Doody's Core Titles in the Health Sciences 2006. Doody Enterprises, Inc. [Orthopedics]
4. Rowan, E. Medical Librarian, Pediatric Hospital Library. A Day in the Life. Ed. Priscilla K. Shontz and Richard A. Murray. Libraries Unlimited, 2007.
5. Rowan, E., Library Selector. Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences 2007. Doody Enterprises, Inc., [Orthopedics]
6. Rowan, E., Library Selector. Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences 2008. Doody Enterprises, Inc., [Orthopedics]
7. Rowan, E., Library Selector. Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences 2009. Doody Enterprises, Inc., [Orthopedics]
8. Rowan, E., Library Selector. Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences 2010. Doody Enterprises, Inc., [Orthopedics]
9. Rowan, EE., 'Caring for Patients From Different Cultures, 4th edition Geri-Ann Galanti', Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 10(2), 2010, pp. 205-206.
10. Rowan, EE. 'Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan on a Shoestring by Emily Knox', Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 10(4), 2010, pp. 420-421.
11. Rowan, E., Library Selector. Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences 2011. Doody Enterprises, Inc., [Orthopedics]
12. Rowan, EE. 'The Accidental Health Sciences Librarian by Lisa A. Ennis and Nicole Mitchell', Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 11(2), 2011, pp. 204-205.
13. Mason, T., Rowan, E. Orthopedics. The Medical Library Association's Master Guide to Authoritative Information Resources in the Health Sciences. Ed. Laurie L. Thompson. Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2011.
14. Rowan, E. Orthopedic Nursing. The Medical Library Association's Master Guide to Authoritative Information Resources in the Health Sciences. Ed. Laurie L. Thompson. Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2011.
15. Rowan, EE. ‘Effective Blogging for Libraries by Connie Crosby’, Journal of the Medical Library Association, 99(4), 2011, pp. 321-322.
16. Rowan, E., Library Selector. Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences 2012. Doody Enterprises, Inc., [Orthopedics]
17. Rowan, EE. ‘Disaster Response and Planning for Libraries by Miriam B. Kahn’, Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 13(2), 2013, pp. 186-187.
18. Rowan, E., Library Selector. Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences 2013. Doody Enterprises, Inc., [Orthopedics]
19. Rowan, E., Library Selector. Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences 2013. Doody Enterprises, Inc., [Nursing--Pediatrics]
20. Rowan, EE. ‘Sir William Osler: the Man and His Books edited by William Feindel, Elizabeth Makney, and Pamela Miller’, Journal of the Medical Library Association, 101(3), 2013, p. 231.
21. Rowan, EE. ‘Jump-Start Your Career as a Digital Librarian: A LITA Guide edited by Jane D. Monson’. Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 13(3), 2013, pp. 302-303.
22. Rowan, EE. 'Grassroots Library Advocacy: A Special Report by Lauren Comito, Aliqae Geraci, and Christian Zabriskie'. Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 13(4), 2013, pp. 400-401.
23. Rowan, E., Library Selector. Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences 2014. Doody Enterprises, Inc., [Orthopedics]
24. Rowan, E., Library Selector. Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences 2014. Doody Enterprises, Inc., [Nursing--Pediatrics]
25. Rowan EE. ‘Making the Most of Your Library Career edited by Lois Stickell and Bridgette Sanders’. Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 14(4), pp. 413-414.
26. Rowan EE. ‘The Whole Library Handbook: Current Data, Professional Advice, and Curiosa about Libraries and Library Services edited by George M. Eberhart’. Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 14(4), p. 409.
27. Rowan EE. ‘Library Management 101: A Practical Guide edited by Diane L. Velasquez’. Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 14(4), pp. 410-411.
28. Rowan EE. ‘Responsive Web Design for Libraries: A LITA Guide by Matthew Reidsma’. Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 15(1), 2015, pp. 125-125.
29. Rowan EE. ‘Guide to Reference: Essential General References and Library Science Sources edited by Jo Bell Whitlatch and Susan E. Searing’. Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 15(2), 2015, pp. 245-246.
30. Rowan, E., Library Selector. Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences 2015. Doody Enterprises, Inc., [Orthopedics]
31. Rowan, E., Library Selector. Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences 2015. Doody Enterprises, Inc., [Nursing--Pediatrics]

Today I:

1. Paid my rent
2. Took books back to the library and got some more
3. Called and cancelled the game.
4. Helped a friend look over some things in preparation for going to the store
5. Helped a friend get reading glasses and those eyeglass holders
6. Took a friend to the store for a larger run than we though at the bigger store which was hot, and neither of us thought we'd make it
7. Got another friend a chocolate shake
8. Watched an interesting video on the philosophy of the question of the reality of fictional objects and entities (thanks to YKWIA)
9. Watched a hilarious Christmas episode of 'Eureka' where the characters were translated into lots of cartoon styles and Jim Parsons of 'The Big Bang Theory' was the voice of Carl the ever-suffering Jeep driven by the sheriff
10. Rubbed a friend's feet until he fell asleep
11. Chatted a bit with the other for awhile
12. Came home
13. Had a bite to eat
14. Listened to some music
15. Read a book
16. Took a nap
17. Paid my cell phone bill
18. Revamped my résumé and curriculum vitae online, since I'd redone the print ones
19. Removed the steri-strips on my incisions, as they were curling up and they had told me that would be the signal to remove them--seems odd to have a bare knee again

So it was a busy day, but not so much as a normal Saturday, and I had from about 6 pm on to myself. We're not playing Call of Cthulhu tomorrow, so I'm going over much later than normal and presumably I'll work on some things here, like straightening up, getting a little laundry together, putting the massive laundry from last week away (no, still haven't done that), made the bed completely (it's just blankets and two pillows right now), take out the trash and recyclables, that sort of thing. Also I want to try out a popcorn popper I got some time ago, take it out, and figure it out. It and air popper, but it's round rather than the normal air poppers. Then I'll go over to their house, do my little bit of laundry and some things around there, and visit. I don't think we're all up to watching The Grand Budapest Hotel at the moment, so while I have it, that may be put on hold until sometime next week.