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Ethnically Librarian

on January 14th, 2009 in ALA, Books, Career, Cataloging, Comics, Digital Library, Favorite Posts, information science, Librarianship, Library school by | 5 Comments

I am a librarian. I am not a librarian. I have an information science degree. I’ve been working for fourteen years, my entire adult life. Most of my jobs have been in libraries. I am a librarian. I am not a librarian. As a student at Michigan State University, I…

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Field notes from the Rural Librarian

on August 6th, 2003 in Librarianship, Library school by | Comments Off

Note from my mother, the small town library director: “Well I just had my picture taken with a green bean and a carrot. They are running around promoting the farmer’s market that the community center is having. Another thing they didn’t tell you about in library school. I have a…

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Revolting Librarians Redux

on April 22nd, 2003 in Avenging, Books, Cornell, information science, Librarians in popular culture, Librarianship, Library school by | Comments Off

The section of the library dedicated to books on librarianship is located outside my office door. I thumbed through a few of them this morning. I was curious what a book on librarianship looked like, since I never really saw that many at “library school”. Most were from the 70s…

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I graduated… where’s my houseboat?

on April 19th, 2003 in Career, Cornell, information science, Library school by | Comments Off

First of all, and lets just get this out of the way: a full-time job is actually a pretty shoddy reward for 2.5 years of graduate school stress. Yes, I’m grateful and all, glad to be here, nice to meet ya, etc. but frankly, I think I was looking for…

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