Welcome to the Starter Librarian!  I created this website to be a resource for all new librarians and librarians-to-be.  As you most likely have found (as have I), there’s a lot of helpful information and helpful people out there willing to help you begin your career as a librarian.  Unfortunately, this information is scattered all over the web. I decided that I would collect this information and organize it in one place and share some of my perspectives thus far, in the hopes of making other folks’ lives easier.

I chose the name “starter librarian” smply because the newlibrarian.com and .org domains were taken, forcing me to be a bit creative in selecting another domain name. After some thinking, I decided to call it the starter librarian website because a) the name is catchy and easily remembered — almost the same general category as “starter wife” or “starter home” and b) it’s an appropriate way to describe my intended audience.