title: A work journal [librarianship]
abstract: Keeping a work journal can be useful in exploring one's thoughts and feelings about work challenges and work decisions. It can help bring about greater fulfillment in one's work life by facilitating self-renewal, change, the search for new meaning, and job satisfaction. One example of a work journal which I kept in 1998 is considered. It touches on several issues of potential interest to midlife career librarians including the challenge of technology, returning to work at midlife after raising a family, further education, professional writing, and job exchange
keyphrases: work journal work challenges work decisions self-renewal change job satisfaction midlife career librarians technology further education professional writing job exchange