The academic interview process can be a lengthy one. As a prospective candidate for a faculty librarian position, I spent months in a wave of…
Category: “What’s Your Normal?” Essays
Stories from APALA members on insights into their identities and what is “normal” for them.
This is how I’ve been conducting my job search since March. I open my browser, then a job searching site. A majority of the listings…
We asked APALA members to share their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. These are some of their stories. Alice Sherwood I am an Asian American,…
Last year, I agreed to start mentoring someone’s child by request of a mutual friend. Those who know me probably wonder how I have the…
My normal is dog. I wasn’t always a dog person. A grad school friend likes to remind me, in fact, that I adamantly said…
Have you ever read a book called Jin Guo? Probably not. It’s a history of the earliest Chinese Canadian women. On page 100 is a…
by Christina Nhek My parents were always pushing for all of my siblings and me to “go to school and get an education.” Being the…
I am a Muslim. I am an American. My father is Indonesian and my birth mother is Okinawan. I grew up in the Monterey Bay…
I am half Indian Guyanese Hindu and half Hungarian Dutch Welsh Cherokee Catholic. My maternal great-grandparents emigrated from India to Guyana, a then British colony…
This theme of a nomad is so apt, now that I live and work in the Middle East as the Head of Cataloging and Metadata…