Fighting your Inner Monologue

A large part of being a librarian is finding a book that someone read when they were younger, but they don’t remember the title or the author or what it looked like or when it was published, or how old they were when they read it, but they *think* it was about x, y, or … Continue reading →

Underestimating Patrons

Last month, my friend was visiting her family in Hawai’i, and she called me to tell me about her library experience.  She visited the library she went to growing up there as a child, and that her two younger brothers had also spent time at.  When she walked in, it was the same librarian from … Continue reading →

Myths of the Underemployed Librarian #3: You have A job, so you don’t understand what it’s like to NOT have a job in this economy.

My new friend over at Books, Dogs, and Frogs prompted this one with her comment on yesterdays Myths of the Underemployed Librarian #1 & #2: Working Part Time ‘Must Be Nice’.  The sentance from her comment that inspired me was “I’m a Youth Services Librarian, but at a branch that is so small that I … Continue reading →