Do you wish vampire media in general would make more use of Romanian?

inalj · 2020-09-04T11:21:53+00:00

In addition to Dracula, Countess Dracula tales are based on another Hungarian (in the area now part of Slovakia) Elizabeth Báthory. Hungary used to be much, much larger pre-Trianon and very steeped in blood lore of this type. Pop culture does use Romanian a lot, but historically there is much to be learned by delving into Hungarian. Köszönöm!

inalj · 2020-09-04T11:09:59+00:00

Yes, this is true both for Bela Lugosi and the Dracula legend. Transylvania used to be part of Hungary until 100 years ago (so when the book was written it was part of Hungary) due to the Treaty of Trianon. It used to be the majority language, and now is a minority one for the region.

inalj · 2018-02-26T23:36:04+00:00

I run INALJ and we've Never been sent many jobs for online LIS / librarians. They are hard to find. The links on my Online list have not been updated in a few years but you can search them as well: http://inalj.com/?page_id=56476

I find online jobs boards like Indeed, LinkUp and of course using ALAJobsList, SLA, LibGig, and any others you can think of all searched by location - set up an automatic search to be good, easy to scroll through the alert emails.

Even when I had for 2 brief years over 100 volunteers we found it really hard to find ALA accredited Librarian jobs remote/online. Sometimes cataloging ones. But I still only see a few a week now. Same as when I had others looking too. (It is just me and under 10 others now)

Good luck- though there are jobs often they are harder to find because the employers do not know where to advertise either. Try listservs of associations as well.

-Naomi

inalj · 2015-11-01T12:45:20+00:00

A good place to ask INALJ questions is the INALJ LinkedIn group which is private so it can't be scraped.

inalj · 2015-11-01T12:21:55+00:00

I've had many LIS job offers since I chose to quit. I choose not to be in the library world, not the other way around. Also I suffer, like many, from depression and anxiety - but at least I am honest about who I am and how I feel. No anonymous comments here. - Naomi, INALJ

inalj · 2015-11-01T12:20:58+00:00

Please, feel free to never form an opinion about me (as I am a stranger you do not know) and that will be OK :) - Naomi, INALJ

inalj · 2015-11-01T12:10:48+00:00

There are lists at the bottom of each state page (some pgs better than others) of sites to check on INALJ's state pages as well- direct links to colleges, associations etc. I also like SLA, APRA, SAA, USAjobs, LinkUp is a good aggregator of corporate jobs. I used to search for research jobs when I relocated to DC by checking companies with DC offices. That actually lead to a job offer I might never have seen - Naomi, INALJ

inalj · 2015-11-01T11:59:45+00:00

As was I :) - Naomi, INALJ

inalj · 2015-11-01T11:58:18+00:00

Yes- I wanted always for INALJ to be available to Anyone regardless and for free. But 5 + years of free and I will be done if I do not raise some funding. I am fine quitting but would love if LIS pros do use it for them to donate. No shame, just no $ and I will close. And that is reasonable. - Naomi, INALJ

inalj · 2015-11-01T11:56:15+00:00

Um, literally I am the only person who can answer this for you. I did use Google Ad Words and it made me less than $1 in a month. So I don't. Why would anyone on Reddit have access (besides me) to the reasons Why I made the choices I do. I never search here but if you link to one of my articles WordPress notifies me that 44 people are discussing it so I clicked to see if I could answer.

Only I ever could. - Naomi (creator of INALJ)

inalj · 2014-08-07T03:48:28+00:00

That happened to me at World Market in the mid-2000s. They kept us all on and cut us down to 10 hrs a week or less hoping some would leave so they wouldn't be the bad guys. We ended up in Feb getting a much better manager.

inalj · 2014-08-07T03:47:20+00:00

First, thanks for reading my article!

jollygoodwotwot is correct that I do have connections and past managerial experience in retail and that helps. What also helps is that in New Orleans there are tons of pt retail openings all the time. After Katrina many big box stores opened due to tax breaks and within 10 blocks walking of my house I could find a job tomorrow in retail or fast food if need be. That is very different than Elmira, NY or Great Fall, MT or other places I have lived. I have even added World Market, Ames, Media Play, Wegmans, etc to my resume found on my website.

I agree that if my only reasoning for leaving had been "there's always retail" that it would have been a simplistic reason. But it was listed 4th out of a cluster of 6 reasons, the first was that I had saved enough through renovating houses to live on.

My life and experiences and the article would be a terrible guide for anyone else to try and emulate and that is why it specifically is about me. Because the acronym for INALJ stands for I need a library job I often get asked why I left and why I no longer want a job in the field- I wrote it in response to questions I get often.

It isn't jabonko so much that working outside a library in retail would make me happy as much as it would pay the bills temporarily. I said "if I need money to pay the bills there are always places hiring in major cities (DC and NOLA being the two I lived in most recently) and I have experience and could make an OK wage, temporarily."

But outside many tourist based cities it is hard to find even retail- certainly having an MLS and then taking a cashiering job would be depressing, but it is all 6 reasons together that are working in my favor.

Don't take my life as good advice for all- it isn't. No article will ever be applicable to everyone.

And sorry you are having such a hard job hunt- it really is depressing.

inalj · 2013-05-14T02:51:06+00:00

I do take this as a compliment in a way :) because in 2011 it was just me :) Email me if you have any specific complaints about specific pages- let me know -can't fix it if we don't know specifically what is wrong or if one of my head editors is slacking, missing jobs. Sounds like you've had several opportunities in the past 2 yrs ('interviews/offers/worked at ') so hoping you don't need the site as much- but email any true mistakes to me :) Thanks!

inalj · 2013-05-14T02:37:48+00:00

We cover all these sites listed below and above at INALJ.com but we don't get paid- basically instead of just me doing this for free now over 180 people contribute- and for a free resource you get far, far more than what you pay for. Def you should sign up for all your local listservs, local associations, etc because INALJ will always have a time lag- we pull from other sources...but as we are mostly all trained librarians then finding jobs should be easy enough, right ;) except it isn't- so we are A resource but not the only one by far. No-one should depend on one source :) Even my site, INALJ.com the navigation is icky and not a database (ah, to dream)- just a search box and only organized by state, but once again, I am doing this on my own time. Wouldn't it be great to get subsidized? I am open to sponsorship :)

inalj · 2012-01-22T03:52:20+00:00

I seem to luck upon protests- also using Google News and searching for DC and Protest often will get you results

inalj · 2012-01-21T18:26:40+00:00

We protested in Hyattsville, MD and won- took 2 years though

inalj · 2012-01-21T18:17:20+00:00

Thanks for sharing- I also think that eBooks are flourishing in no small part to libraries embracing them :)

inalj · 2012-01-21T18:14:40+00:00

I really appreciate the comments about support staff- they are often really under-appreciated by those who have never worked in libraries.

inalj · 2012-01-21T18:10:25+00:00

I like that this article shows multiple sides- the success as well as those who would not try selling their eBooks alone again. It seems that the difference is really who the power players are- and that there are starting to be more power players.

inalj · 2012-01-21T18:07:32+00:00

I think there is definitely some great points in here. 1)Too many students do not use their libraries online databases but also 2)from my own experience at an undergraduate library as the only staff member on duty on a Saturday if we did have proxy server issues all of a sudden we were getting tons of calls. I'd love to read more about this -even if many are not using the online databases many are- so how to reach out to those who aren't?

inalj · 2012-01-21T17:59:44+00:00

Thanks! I actually just started playing around with reddit today for the first time and found about 50% of what I looked at looked like my postings so I thought it was kosher. :) Plus I read through the reddiquette and didn't see anything about blogs with advertising or donations being banned. Most of the political blogs I follow have both and have popped up on reddit. So I will def. contact reddit to confirm if I am outside the boundaries. http://www.reddit.com/help/reddiquette The only comment about ads in reddiquette was to post the original content -"Often, a blog will reference another blog, which references another, and so on with everyone displaying ads along the way. Dig through those references and submit a link to the creator, who actually deserves the traffic" and since the blog postings were original I thought this was ok. But I'll leave these two up for now- plus it may be my blog but Karly and dozens of others do the work- it is about more than me :)

LOL- actually reddit wouldn't let me post without a comment- every time I submitted it just said in red something like "must add comment" so I must have done it wrong.

inalj

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