There are at least two kinds of international librarian work – full-time long-term contract jobs and temporary/volunteer/exchange library work. This website will focus on the full-time positions involving settling into a 1, 2, or 3 year contracted position at an established tuition based school.
Book Review: Morning Sun in Wuhan
Title: Morning Sun in Wuhan Author: Ying Chang Compestine Publisher: Harper Collins Copyright: 2022 Hardbound ISBN: 9780358572053 Middle grade fiction, age 8-12, 197 pages Language: English Chinese culture Wuhan, China setting Chinese characters Mei is the thirteen year old daughter of a respiratory doctor living in Wuhan, China during the COVID19 outbreak. Her father begins…
Keep readingK-12 Rehab Project – Episode 4
Picture Books Having started in late October 2021, it was encouraging to finally be coming to the end of one retro-fit project — the picture books. The picture books were a mixture of fiction, nonfiction, board books, and leveled readers. They were arranged in four groupings – yellow, green, red, blue – for reading levels/genre.…
Keep readingBook Review: SumoKitty
Title: SumoKitty Author: David Biedrzcki Publisher: Charlesbridge Copyright: 2019 Hardbound ISBN: 9781580896825 Picture book, age 5-8 Language: English Japanese culture Asian setting Asian characters A stray cat joins a sumo wrestling training center as chief mouse catcher. When things take a turn for the worst, Kitty learns the important lesson of resilience from his family…
Keep readingK-12 Rehab Project – Episode 3
The Importance of Staffing Before I arrived at my current job, the library assistant I was to have was chosen for me. I was told that this person had worked in the library before (in the “before time,” before COVID turned everything upside down). I foolishly thought this meant that the person had some basic…
Keep readingK-12 Library Rehab Project – Episode 2
As if the chaos described in Episode 1, was not enough, borrowing of library materials that were not in the library catalog was recorded on paper. This would be less than optimal normally, but the information that was written down included the title and ISBN of the item, but no unique barcode number. It is…
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K-12 Library Rehab Project – Episode 1
After spending 7 years at the same international school library, thoroughly weeding it, infusing new materials, completing series so that all volumes are available, training the staff, and running out of ways to improve the library within my power, I moved onto a new job. This has opened a whole new world of challenge. The…
Keep readingFinding an International Position
*Do not Reblog* It can be hard to find an international school library job. Where do you look? How do you choose?
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International School Librarian 