Visualize You: Mapping Your Career Trajectory

Goben, Abigail; Sapp Nelson, Megan

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Title

Visualize You: Mapping Your Career Trajectory

Author(s)

• Goben, Abigail
• Sapp Nelson, Megan

Contributor(s)

Ingram, Joseph

Issue Date

2024-10-01

Keyword(s)

• Academic Librarianship
• Career Development
• Mid-Career
• Data Librarianship

Abstract

Data librarianship as a sub-discipline is roughly 15 years old, which means that many data librarians are also moving into the middle of their careers. However, career progress and impacts cannot only be explored by focusing on workplace barriers or from a linear perspective. Career decisions are frequently constrained and facilitated by factors beyond the immediate workplace, including race, gender, geographic location, or family support in addition to many others. Identifying our own reactions and habits of mind can assist in assessing what has supported our career path thus far as well as anticipating how we might react to the ever evolving changes coming at us in the future. In this workshop, participants will create an infographic that combines the major milestones and influences on their careers thus far, annotated with personalized barriers and facilitators. Prompts will guide participants to reflect on their personal responses from the past in order to anticipate future behavior in response to the emerging work environment. Group and table discussions will look for trends amongst and between participants, to help discover and investigate peer and community approaches. We hope to identify some overarching trends that may impact data librarianship as a field (as reported by participants in the room).

Type of Resource

• still image
• Slide Deck
• text

Language

eng

Copyright and License Information

Abigail Goben, Megan Sapp Nelson, and Joseph Ingram. 2024.

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