In reading this article, which deals with finding enjoyment or satisfaction in the library profession, I found myself relating very much to Mr. Moran Jr. I think it’s safe to say that, like me, Moran Jr. is somewhat of an Idealist. There is a terrific quote in which he gives his take on the role of the library:
“Libraries are about service, about helping people.
They exist to help children learn about the value and satisfaction
in reading and investigation. They exist in
conjunction with schools-to help teens develop their
minds and discipline through reading and research. They
exist to help adults solve problems and to grow intellectually.
They exist to provide enjoyment of mind and heart for
seniors. They exist as a bonding force in the community, a
growing force for the community.”
Being an Idealist, of course I would relate to this. This is the kind of thing I like to hear. However, Moran Jr. adds practical thought to his ideals, asking “why shouldn’t librarians enjoy their work?” Specifically, why shouldn’t librarians be satisfied and happy in their work the way an artist finds satisfaction in creation?
Most of this article has the feel of being addressed specifically to library managers, with Moran Jr. suggesting ways in which personal fulfillment and job fulfillment should be able to overlap. On the first page under the heading “What Have We Learned About Personal Fulfillment and Satisfaction in the Workplace?” Moran Jr. posits some ideas about the workplace that would make staff “feel more human and less like unthinking tools.” His workplace assessment seems rather general and applicable to almost any working environment. So how does he make the library a particularly special place to work?
The truth is, as far as I can see, he really doesn’t. Besides his savory, Idealistic view about the library that I quoted, most every instance where suggestions are made to improve the library work environment, the word “library” could be replaced by almost any other kind of job. So although Moran Jr. makes some great suggestions to help librarians in their environment, this article could just as easily have been about job satisfaction in any other environment.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Entry 2 - General Interview Questions for Library Employees!
Hey! So here's what I've got.
Of course, there’s no predicting how these interviews will go precisely, but I’ve drafted 10 questions for potential Interviewees, which I hope focus in enough on the Realistic and the Now, as opposed to the Ideal to which I'm always inclined to focus on.
1) Please briefly describe your Title/Position.
2) Can you describe what a typical work week would be like for you?
3) [At this point I will probably ask about the demographics particular to the library I am focused on. Questions will most likely focus on age, gender, and racial statistics and how they effect how that particular library operates.]
4) Since you’ve entered this field, do you find that it is what you expected? How so?
5) How do you view the need for Degreed Librarians?
6) What kinds of changes would you like to see in the future, pertaining both to [this library] and the greater library system? Why?
7) Are there any kind of changes happening now that you are excited about? Why?
8) Do you have any particular regrets concerning your job? What would you have done differently?
9) Do you have any advice for an aspiring librarian—particularly for one who is perhaps more Idealistic than Realistic?
10) What is your view on Graduate programs for Library Science? If you see them as necessary for someone wanting to enter the field, do you have any advice regarding finding the right program/getting accepted/[anything else]?
I hope these questions are straight-forward enough! And realistic. Let me know if I need to go over them further!
Dana
Of course, there’s no predicting how these interviews will go precisely, but I’ve drafted 10 questions for potential Interviewees, which I hope focus in enough on the Realistic and the Now, as opposed to the Ideal to which I'm always inclined to focus on.
1) Please briefly describe your Title/Position.
2) Can you describe what a typical work week would be like for you?
3) [At this point I will probably ask about the demographics particular to the library I am focused on. Questions will most likely focus on age, gender, and racial statistics and how they effect how that particular library operates.]
4) Since you’ve entered this field, do you find that it is what you expected? How so?
5) How do you view the need for Degreed Librarians?
6) What kinds of changes would you like to see in the future, pertaining both to [this library] and the greater library system? Why?
7) Are there any kind of changes happening now that you are excited about? Why?
8) Do you have any particular regrets concerning your job? What would you have done differently?
9) Do you have any advice for an aspiring librarian—particularly for one who is perhaps more Idealistic than Realistic?
10) What is your view on Graduate programs for Library Science? If you see them as necessary for someone wanting to enter the field, do you have any advice regarding finding the right program/getting accepted/[anything else]?
I hope these questions are straight-forward enough! And realistic. Let me know if I need to go over them further!
Dana
Friday, October 8, 2010
Start Again! Entry 1 - Analysis of Reading: "Perceptions of Libraries and Information Sources"
Hey! Back to business. For my first reading, I chose to take a look at the article "Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources". I downloaded this report as a .PDF and was surprised to find that this report is rather... lengthy. About 290 pages of lengthy. It is, however--mercifully--split into five sections, with an Introduction and Conclusion. As I don't think I'd be doing it (or my brain) much of a service by trying to summarize or interpret 290 pages in one post, I've decided to cover my analysis in parts, as well, starting today with the Introduction.
Introduction to Perceptions of Libraries and Information Sources
As readers, we are first introduced to a concept apparently first presented in a report from 2003, that posits an overall "dissonance" between "library consumer" and Libraries, I suppose, as a person-less entity. This dissonance is derived from what the library consumer seems to desire from a library experience but which the Library--or the 2003 Library-Entity--does not seem to provide. The idea of a disconnect between library consumers and Libraries causes some rather probing questions in the author(s) of the PLIS report (we're calling it that now): How are libraries perceived by today’s information consumer? "Do libraries still matter? On what level? Will library use likely increase or decrease in the future?"
To answer these and other questions, the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) Market Research Team with the aid of other OCLC staff and hundreds of Librarians conducted a study, the goals being to know more about " . . . people’s information-seeking behaviors, how familiar people are with the variety of e-resources libraries provide for their users and how libraries fit into the lives of the respondents."
In large part, the study seems to deal primarily with the library consumer's awareness of electronic resources available and how library consumers perceive what the author(s) refer to as the "Library" brand. Though I think the technicalities of the survey for the most part were well over my head, I did gather that the availability of Internet resources and the library consumer's awareness was key in the study--which, in the end, proved more to "confirm" ideas than to illuminate.
As I said, a great deal of the Introduction was well over my head as it discussed results of the various surveys, even though there were several helpful (and colorful!) charts provided. If I have more to add to the reading of the Introduction I certainly will do so, but I feel I should probably end here, as there is a great deal to wade through in Part 1 of PLIS!
As readers, we are first introduced to a concept apparently first presented in a report from 2003, that posits an overall "dissonance" between "library consumer" and Libraries, I suppose, as a person-less entity. This dissonance is derived from what the library consumer seems to desire from a library experience but which the Library--or the 2003 Library-Entity--does not seem to provide. The idea of a disconnect between library consumers and Libraries causes some rather probing questions in the author(s) of the PLIS report (we're calling it that now): How are libraries perceived by today’s information consumer? "Do libraries still matter? On what level? Will library use likely increase or decrease in the future?"
To answer these and other questions, the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) Market Research Team with the aid of other OCLC staff and hundreds of Librarians conducted a study, the goals being to know more about " . . . people’s information-seeking behaviors, how familiar people are with the variety of e-resources libraries provide for their users and how libraries fit into the lives of the respondents."
In large part, the study seems to deal primarily with the library consumer's awareness of electronic resources available and how library consumers perceive what the author(s) refer to as the "Library" brand. Though I think the technicalities of the survey for the most part were well over my head, I did gather that the availability of Internet resources and the library consumer's awareness was key in the study--which, in the end, proved more to "confirm" ideas than to illuminate.
As I said, a great deal of the Introduction was well over my head as it discussed results of the various surveys, even though there were several helpful (and colorful!) charts provided. If I have more to add to the reading of the Introduction I certainly will do so, but I feel I should probably end here, as there is a great deal to wade through in Part 1 of PLIS!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Illness, Anxiety, and the Lot: How This Just Became Personal
I know that I started this blog with a mission: to complete a guided course, worked out for myself so that I might have a better understanding of the career I was getting myself into. By the end of Winter Term 2010 at WOU, I was supposed to have completed a number of blog entries, interviews with library employees, job shadows, and a couple papers in order to receive a grade. However, things fell through. I got sick. I got very, very sick. I did not receive a grade at the end of the term.
Over the past few months, however--during bouts of fever, stomach viruses, pneumonia, panic, depression--I was giving this blog a lot of thought. I was giving my chosen career path a lot of thought. Some days, too sick to move and too tired to even blink, I thought about libraries. I began to think of becoming a librarian as my mission in life. It began to seem almost like a heroic destiny. By becoming a librarian, I would help people. Long before I was born and to this day, people fight injustices. People seek to right the wrongs in the world. Some travel to other countries to provide clean water, because humans, as a right, should have clean drinking water. People have fought in wars, big and small, so that people could exercise the human right to be free. People fight and have fought for equality on all levels, regarding race, class, the right to speak freely, the right to practice religion on one's own terms, the right to live comfortably and without fear.
I thought about these people, the ones who give themselves wholly to a cause. I think about the people in trouble, people in crisis who everyday face injustice. In some of the worst hours of my illness, I would station myself in front of a TV, a book, a magazine, learning as much as I could about these people. They had help in many varieties, but it never seemed to be enough. A few cents donated to build a well in a small African village; some old coats to go to children who need them; some volunteer work at a shelter. But the unfairness of the situations of the people in need still hurt. Why do bad things happen in the world? I wondered. I'm not a cynic; I don't believe that people have evil in their nature, to begin with, but that people, intrinsically good, can be misguided. Some don't know that there is anything better.
Watching a documentary one day on WWII, it was presented as fact, with the face of Mister A. Hitler himself on screen, that those in power are those who control the information presented to the people. Information can be presented falsely, it can be controlled, and it can be taken away. And suddenly I was struck with an idea that had been brewing in my head for a very, very long time: it is in every way inhumane to deny people the right to educate themselves. For almost countless centuries, those in power have sought to control those in their charge by keeping them ignorant. If people do not know they are being mistreated, if they do not know that there is any other option, it is unlikely the people or subjects will revolt. Re-reading the novel Germinal recently, it struck me that the phrase "Knowledge is Power"--a phrase that, over the years, has taken on almost humorous connotations because of its relations to children's programming--was far more powerful than I had thought. As the protagonist of the novel, who was not by any means an intellectual but was, at least, literate, began to teach the illiterate citizens of a French mining town, ideas were stirred. Injustices were no longer to be born silently; concessions had to be made, rights had to be fought for. This, all because the education of a people.
It has become my opinion that the right to be educated, to be able to educate oneself on one's own terms, is as much a right to be fought for as anything in history ever has been. Knowing this, I feel I more deeply understand what the purpose of the library is: to provide, indiscriminately, information and education to those who would seek it out. Ignorance should not be tolerated; it is my profound belief now, as I've had these few months to let it stew in a sometimes feverish mind, that ignorance, that the unavailability of information to a people, is one of the main causes for injustices throughout history and in even now. Schools and make-shift classrooms across the globe do what they can to provide a base for a person's education, but a library can take a person further. a librarian can help a person to expand and to refine their education in a manner suited to them. Even those who have access to a good education and who see libraries as more of a place of recreation, of a quiet respite from the troubles of daily life, are in a way taking their education into their own hands, choosing themselves what they seek to put in their minds, if somewhat unconsciously.
This age we live in now, the age of the internet, of satellite television reaching millions, of books being published in every medium possible, is the most important time for the library. Libraries are not an institution for the intellectual or the elite, and should never be. As information becomes wider and more available, it should the job of a library to be as an escort, guiding those who crave some kind of enlightenment.
For these past few months, through clouds of sickness and sometimes delusion, I feel I've been led clearly to the conclusion that the way--my way--to help those I so desperately feel for and sympathize with is to become a librarian--to help others help themselves. When one is educated, one is empowered; when one is empowered, incredible things can happen. Access to information is where change can begin.
I must admit that I was not expecting to rattle off this post tonight, but I feel so keenly right now the ideas that have been welling up in my head. As I start to really recover, I hope to start conducting interviews again with librarians and others, and I hope to start posting more of my own observations in this blog again. I hope this will ease some of the tension of the curriculum, and make my transition back into daily education after a long illness much smoother. Janeanne, if you're reading this, I hope you've enjoyed it and don't think I'm just a mental case. But this has become deeply personal. Librarianship for me, now, is no longer just a career choice, but a cause! I really hope that's understandable.
Cheers,
Dana W
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Did You Know?
First off: Apologies, Janeanne! I've been trying my best to keep this updated but, as you can see, it's been tough. And although I know this isn't assigned, I thought this was not only interesting, but highly relevant in thinking about the evolution that information technologies--including Library Science--has been undergoing in just the last few years.
What inspired this post was this video: Did You Know?
It's a rather fast-paced and packed look at the developments in Information Technology. What caught my attention was the section that looked briefly at Google: in just four years, the number of Google searches has risen from 2.7 billion searches annually to 37 billion in a single month.
Has the demand for information increased over that time, or just the availability of almost anything a person could dream up?Either way, this would seem to be a terrific time to be entering into jobs in the information field. Some might think access to technologies like Google and all the information therein might be over-saturation; should we really have all this information open to just anybody? And just what are people getting out of emerging technologies? Faster internet, online archives, internet access on mobile phones--are these creating a smarter society, more earnest to learn, or a more vapid one, drowning in a flood of too much, perhaps unimportant, information?
Myself, I have always believed that access to information--the ability to educate oneself--should be considered as important as any other of a human being's inalienable rights. It's my hope that technologies progressing today will see benefit all over the globe. Access to information should not be a privilege kept by those in industrialized nations but a right to all those who should want it. I could say much more on this subject, but I'll keep it here for now!
What inspired this post was this video: Did You Know?
It's a rather fast-paced and packed look at the developments in Information Technology. What caught my attention was the section that looked briefly at Google: in just four years, the number of Google searches has risen from 2.7 billion searches annually to 37 billion in a single month.
Has the demand for information increased over that time, or just the availability of almost anything a person could dream up?Either way, this would seem to be a terrific time to be entering into jobs in the information field. Some might think access to technologies like Google and all the information therein might be over-saturation; should we really have all this information open to just anybody? And just what are people getting out of emerging technologies? Faster internet, online archives, internet access on mobile phones--are these creating a smarter society, more earnest to learn, or a more vapid one, drowning in a flood of too much, perhaps unimportant, information?
Myself, I have always believed that access to information--the ability to educate oneself--should be considered as important as any other of a human being's inalienable rights. It's my hope that technologies progressing today will see benefit all over the globe. Access to information should not be a privilege kept by those in industrialized nations but a right to all those who should want it. I could say much more on this subject, but I'll keep it here for now!
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Week Two (ish) - Keirsey Temperament Report
If my answers about myself are at all reliable, it would seem that I am an Idealist.
I have to say, I'm rather pleased with this result. The report lists these as the basics of the Idealist:
Anybody who knows me I think would agree with at least that brief description. But more convincing to me was the report itself. Though brief, I thought there were a few things described that fit me rather well. Here are a few quotes that I think speak of my personality, as best as I can perceive myself:
"Idealists strive to discover who they are and how they can become their best possible self -- always this quest for self-knowledge and self-improvement drives their imagination."
"Idealists are sure that friendly cooperation is the best way for people to achieve their goals. Conflict and confrontation upset them because they seem to put up angry barriers between people."
"...Idealists are incurable romantics who prefer to focus on what might be, rather than what is."
"Highly ethical in their actions, Idealists hold themselves to a strict standard of personal integrity. They must be true to themselves and to others, and they can be quite hard on themselves when they are dishonest, or when they are false or insincere."
"Conscience looms large for you; in almost any situation, you feel compelled to measure yourself, other people, and the conditions of the environment against your personal morality."
Friends and Family, weigh in! Does this sound like me?
Going further, already knowing from previous tests that I am an INFP, of the four sub-sections of Idealist (Champion, Counselor, Healer, Teacher), I can deal myself into the Healer category. Now here is something! Take a look at the paragraph on career choices for the Idealist Healer:
"The most sensitive of the Idealists is the Healer (INFP). While their list of jobs may echo that of other Idealists, they are more drawn to express their own unique vision of the world than all other types, so their work cannot help but be unique. They interpret their visions in the world of music, art, entertainment, or dance. As a professor or teacher, counselor or social worker, they often unlock the mysteries of life for those they encounter. In business they are drawn to organizational development and human resources careers. They may have a religious calling or seek work as a librarian. Their careers need to be in alignment with their personal values."
Seems I've got it about right! And I'm in good company: apparently also belonging to the Idealist Healer category are Princess Diana, Audrey Hepburn, and George Orwell--to name a few.
Anyway, it's good to know I'm looking in about the right place, career-wise. This was kind of a nice confidence boost! Now just to narrow the field, I think :)
I have to say, I'm rather pleased with this result. The report lists these as the basics of the Idealist:
Anybody who knows me I think would agree with at least that brief description. But more convincing to me was the report itself. Though brief, I thought there were a few things described that fit me rather well. Here are a few quotes that I think speak of my personality, as best as I can perceive myself:
"Idealists strive to discover who they are and how they can become their best possible self -- always this quest for self-knowledge and self-improvement drives their imagination."
"Idealists are sure that friendly cooperation is the best way for people to achieve their goals. Conflict and confrontation upset them because they seem to put up angry barriers between people."
"...Idealists are incurable romantics who prefer to focus on what might be, rather than what is."
"Highly ethical in their actions, Idealists hold themselves to a strict standard of personal integrity. They must be true to themselves and to others, and they can be quite hard on themselves when they are dishonest, or when they are false or insincere."
"Conscience looms large for you; in almost any situation, you feel compelled to measure yourself, other people, and the conditions of the environment against your personal morality."
Friends and Family, weigh in! Does this sound like me?
Going further, already knowing from previous tests that I am an INFP, of the four sub-sections of Idealist (Champion, Counselor, Healer, Teacher), I can deal myself into the Healer category. Now here is something! Take a look at the paragraph on career choices for the Idealist Healer:
"The most sensitive of the Idealists is the Healer (INFP). While their list of jobs may echo that of other Idealists, they are more drawn to express their own unique vision of the world than all other types, so their work cannot help but be unique. They interpret their visions in the world of music, art, entertainment, or dance. As a professor or teacher, counselor or social worker, they often unlock the mysteries of life for those they encounter. In business they are drawn to organizational development and human resources careers. They may have a religious calling or seek work as a librarian. Their careers need to be in alignment with their personal values."
Seems I've got it about right! And I'm in good company: apparently also belonging to the Idealist Healer category are Princess Diana, Audrey Hepburn, and George Orwell--to name a few.
Anyway, it's good to know I'm looking in about the right place, career-wise. This was kind of a nice confidence boost! Now just to narrow the field, I think :)
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Week One Cont'd - Library Blogs
Following blogs related to Library Science is something relatively new to me. I hadn't thought of blogs as a means toward better understanding Libraries, but through some of these blogs I've been able to find insight into almost all aspects of careers in Library Science, from personal blogs detailing the day-to-day, to blogs focused on the improvement and development of the modern library. Here are just a few I've come to follow closely in the last year:
Awful Library Books
Awful Library Books
This Blog is one that first caught my attention simply for its entertainment value, but which soon led to greater discoveries in the world of Library Blogging. Though it is good for a laugh, this website deals with a very serious issue in the library world today: that is the issue of keeping up with the times in the modern library. How can one expect a library to help educate and help the public when gems like this, though hilarious, pollute shelves? I'm not so sure any teen in this decade looking for a "Survival Guide" would go looking to Dee Snider for advice. The idea of "weeding"--or the removal of out-dated, unhelpful, or just plain silly books from library shelves and catalogs--led me on a search to find out more about what steps people are taking in the library community to keep up with the times--or keep ahead.
Of note: the two librarians who keep up this entertaining blog also keep personal blogs about their own trials within and ideas about modern libraries, to be found here and here.
Librarian.net
One of the first and longest-running library blogs, the blog's author, one Jessamyn West, seems to touch on every aspect relevant to the Library Sciences. Having discovered this particular blog only a few months ago, I've had the fun task of wading through the archives, dating back to September 2003. It is a literal smorgasbord information, the author offering up links to articles, web resources, charts, graphs, and lists documenting--well, anything, really--links to and reviews of library events, and accounts of her personal experiences as a librarian visiting libraries all over the country and further. This blog really is not so much an information engine as it is a deeply personal look into the life of a person who doesn't just make a career out of librarianship, but an entire lifestyle. It is something truly inspiring, and well worth the effort of digging through the archives.
The Annoyed Librarian
Another highly entertaining blog, authored by the library world's leading polemicist. Keeping things anonymous, the Annoyed Librarian seeks, in almost always a comic way, to inform the reader of the latest news in the library world while at the same time giving it a good one-two punch. The AL keeps things light, but very expertly exposes what is problematic about the changing atmosphere of Library Science. It is most definitely a very different (though always informative and hilarious) way to digest library news.
In the Library With the Lead Pipe
Finally, probably the most interesting of the blogs is this collaborative journal from six librarians from all walks of life. The blog itself focuses on the composition of articles by which the authors dispel myths and explain the truths regarding the Library Sciences. For me, it has not only been exceedingly interesting but very helpful, as I make my way through the archives, in understanding libraries and their role in communities, schools, universities, and so forth, with six different voices (and sometimes guest-contributors) to give perspective.
Though these four are the blogs I follow most closely (or rather, regularly), there are more blogs of note, for their educational value or simply for how fun they are. Here are a few:
The Days & Nights of the Lipstick Librarian! - A fun little jab at the stereotypical, silence-obsessed, "Marion the Librarian."
Librarian Avengers - Blog of the author of the famous "Why you should fall to your knees and worship a Librarian." Read it!
Closed Stacks - A quirky and funny collaborative blog with a greater focus on the reading aspect of Library Science.
Library Lover's LiveJournal - A highly interactive LiveJournal community open to all those interested in or simply in love with libraries. Not just for librarians!
These are just a few of the library blogs to be found on the internet, but favorites of mine in the way they have helped me speed up and maintain my interest in Library Science. The entertainment value of these blogs seems key, as these blogs are accessible to most anyone. They are also testament to me that the library world is thriving and moving forward each day! This really is an exciting time to be entering the field.
Of note: the two librarians who keep up this entertaining blog also keep personal blogs about their own trials within and ideas about modern libraries, to be found here and here.
Librarian.net
One of the first and longest-running library blogs, the blog's author, one Jessamyn West, seems to touch on every aspect relevant to the Library Sciences. Having discovered this particular blog only a few months ago, I've had the fun task of wading through the archives, dating back to September 2003. It is a literal smorgasbord information, the author offering up links to articles, web resources, charts, graphs, and lists documenting--well, anything, really--links to and reviews of library events, and accounts of her personal experiences as a librarian visiting libraries all over the country and further. This blog really is not so much an information engine as it is a deeply personal look into the life of a person who doesn't just make a career out of librarianship, but an entire lifestyle. It is something truly inspiring, and well worth the effort of digging through the archives.
The Annoyed Librarian
Another highly entertaining blog, authored by the library world's leading polemicist. Keeping things anonymous, the Annoyed Librarian seeks, in almost always a comic way, to inform the reader of the latest news in the library world while at the same time giving it a good one-two punch. The AL keeps things light, but very expertly exposes what is problematic about the changing atmosphere of Library Science. It is most definitely a very different (though always informative and hilarious) way to digest library news.
In the Library With the Lead Pipe
Finally, probably the most interesting of the blogs is this collaborative journal from six librarians from all walks of life. The blog itself focuses on the composition of articles by which the authors dispel myths and explain the truths regarding the Library Sciences. For me, it has not only been exceedingly interesting but very helpful, as I make my way through the archives, in understanding libraries and their role in communities, schools, universities, and so forth, with six different voices (and sometimes guest-contributors) to give perspective.
Though these four are the blogs I follow most closely (or rather, regularly), there are more blogs of note, for their educational value or simply for how fun they are. Here are a few:
The Days & Nights of the Lipstick Librarian! - A fun little jab at the stereotypical, silence-obsessed, "Marion the Librarian."
Librarian Avengers - Blog of the author of the famous "Why you should fall to your knees and worship a Librarian." Read it!
Closed Stacks - A quirky and funny collaborative blog with a greater focus on the reading aspect of Library Science.
Library Lover's LiveJournal - A highly interactive LiveJournal community open to all those interested in or simply in love with libraries. Not just for librarians!
These are just a few of the library blogs to be found on the internet, but favorites of mine in the way they have helped me speed up and maintain my interest in Library Science. The entertainment value of these blogs seems key, as these blogs are accessible to most anyone. They are also testament to me that the library world is thriving and moving forward each day! This really is an exciting time to be entering the field.
Week One - Brief Intro
Though this blog may only be seen by one person (hi, Janeanne!), it seems important to me that it be personalized. In this way, the blogging of my exploits as an intern at WOU's Library seems less of an arduous task and more of an exploratory journey. It's important to me that this term be spent understanding all the ins and outs of the modern library--I want to understand every little bit, deeply immersing myself in the world of Librarianship; the ways in which a library functions, the jobs and opportunities to be found in all different environments--just everything. I've spent my life romanticizing the role of libraries in communities; I think it's high time I sought out the realities.Let's get to work!
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