Meggan Press. Get the Job: Academic Library Hiring for the New Librarian. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020. 158p. Paper, $44.00 (ISBN 978-0-8389-4840-8).

Abstract

In Get the Job: Academic Library Hiring for the New Librarian, Meggan Press, the Undergraduate Education Librarian at Indiana University–Bloomington, has prepared a guidebook to the hiring process of the “strange and wonderful beast” (1) called academia. This slim volume covers everything from tips for deciding whether graduate school in library science is right for you to dealing with imposter syndrome as a new academic librarian. In between, Press, part Dante’s Virgil and part Emily Post, both demystifies the peculiar traditions and rules that govern the academic job search and instructs readers in the etiquette that the system expects.