The job posting closed on Tuesday night at 9pm, and today around 2:30 I received an email that they want to schedule me for an interview in early November! The waiting period seems a little long, but I guess for public libraries this is sort of normal. I hope I'm not just one of the check-the-box interviews so that they can say they gave consideration to x number of candidates before picking someone who they already had in mind, but there's no way to know that from my vantage point.

I was at my aunt's today, so I'll reply tomorrow and set up the appointment. It will be another tele-interview since they're still not seeing anyone in person, but my fingers and toes will be crossed and I have a much higher level of confidence that this actually is an adult department position. It's time to brush up on my public librarianship industry trends and try to have a few non-profits/community link ideas and some programming proposals ready this time around.

Next week I'll submit requests for my transcripts from my universities so I can have them prepped and ready to send in for NJ Public Librarian certification (which I should probably get anyway if I'm truly set on this direction), and try to figure out if there's anything else proactive I can do. Not gonna lie, I'm pretty excited :).