You know you're a librarian when....
You open up a brand new dictionary and smell the pages and touch them delicately.
You find the answer to a patron's question - although the answer is disappointing to the patron - it feels great to have simply found it.
You open up a new box of books and you touch them all.
Oh it's the little things. Today was particularly good because my technician was out. I truly missed her because she does such fine work. But it allowed me to answer the questions that she usually handles, and that allowed me to think about the importance of her job. A good technician is worth far more than they are paid.
I'm half way through the class on Blogging and I'm learning a lot. I should finish this weekend. I need to because my next class is starting in a week. Then I will be in the world of classification. Doesn't sound exciting and I'm sure I'll be bored - but at least I'll understand this mundane task that is ahead of me.
posted by linda at
8:14 PM
4 Comments:
Linda,
I like your blog. Another ink-smell addict. ;-)
I hope your class answers all your questions!
By
Cat., at January 12, 2005 8:15 AM
Heh. Guess my advice came too late. :) BTW, I'm not a librarian, but I like to go to bookstores and smell the new pages of the books.
By
cass, at January 13, 2005 7:38 AM
Love the blog:)
http://lovetheliberry.blogspot.com
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The Liberry aka Amy, at April 22, 2005 11:34 AM
Just wanted to say that it's a joy to hear a Librarian say kind words about their technicians. In a previous life I was a Library Technician, and in my work experience, quite a few of the librarians I worked for had very little respect for us lowly technicians.
I can still remember many years ago when I was on one of my placements the librarian in charge dropped a whack of stuff to be photocopied in front of me and snidely snipped, "I didn't get MY Masters in Library Science so I could photocopy!"
By
patricia, at June 24, 2005 6:05 AM
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