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Career Anchors Reimagined by Edgar H. Schein; John Van Maanen; Peter A. Schein
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2023-04-05
Finding Direction and Opportunity in the Changing World of Work
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009 by Richard N. Bolles
Call Number: HF5382.7 .B64 2009
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
1. Finding a job ... in hard times -- 2: Finding a life ... that has meaning and purpose -- 3. Finding your mission in life
Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock
Call Number: HD57.7 .B633 2015
Publication Date: 2023-01-10
"We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing." So says Laszlo Bock, head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge.
The Soul's Code by James Hillman
Call Number: BF697 .H46 1997
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
Based on the premise that a unique soul guides each of us from birth, shaping the course of our lives—what Plato called our “daimon,” the Romans called our “genius,” and the Christians called our “guardian angel”—this provocative bestseller by one of the great Jungian analysts asks the question: “What is it, in my heart, that I must do, be, and have? And why?”
A Shared Authority by Michael Frisch
Call Number: D16.14 .F75 1990
Publication Date: 1990-05-17
Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History

Oxford Oral History Series
The Oxford Oral History Series showcases the best of current work in oral history and aims to advance methodological and theoretical understandings of the field. It is international and interdisciplinary in scope and includes volumes for academic, professional, and trade (general) audiences.

New Online: Oral Histories Offer a Glimpse of America at Work
From the Library of Congress Blog: a discussion of the American Folklife Center oral histories give a glimpse into work in America.
StoryCorps Justice Project
Through the Justice Project, StoryCorps preserves and amplifies the stories of people who have been directly impacted by mass incarceration.

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Road Trip Nation Interview Archive
The Road Trip Nation story begins with recent college grads Nate, Mike, and Brian who weren't sure about what they wanted to do with their lives after graduation. So they went on a road trip to learn the stories of career professionals who built their lives around their passions.
Queer Mississippi Oral History Project
The Queer Mississippi Oral History Project consists of interviews with lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, and/or queer people who were born, raised, or spent significant time in Mississippi.
Invisible History of Mississippi
The Invisible History Project (IHP) began in Alabama and expanded to Mississippi through a partnership with the University of Mississippi, IHP is now collecting full-time in the state.
Freedom Riders Oral Histories
In the spring of 2009, the University of Mississippi Libraries' Archives and Special Collections Department in conjunction with the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation and the University of Mississippi Media & Documentary Projects digitized interviews given by those involved in the freedom rides of 1961.
Oral History Projects Collections
Black Families of Yalobusha County and the Parchman Oral History Project by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of MS.
M. B. Mayfield Collection
In the spring of 2021, Dr. Brian Foster's class (Southern Studies 560, "Oral Histories of Southern Social Movements"), part of M Partner’s collaboration with the Town of Ecru, collected a series of oral histories focused on the life and art of M. B. Mayfield.
COVID-19 Oral History Project
The COVID-19 Oral History Project is a rapid response oral history project focused on archiving the lived experience of the COVID-19 epidemic.
We have designed this project so that professional researchers and the broader public can create and upload their oral histories to our database.
UCLA Library Center for Oral History Research
Documenting the histories of Los Angeles one interview at a time. Multidisciplinary.

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