Comments on: Staying out of the way

By: lis.dom » this is not a post about cats

lis.dom » this is not a post about cats — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:32:17 +0000

[...] and all that, and to some degree those are all good things. But my connection to libraries (and Steve Lawson has written before about this same thing) was not about the librarians: it was about the books. I never talked to Hazel Westgate directly, [...]

By: See Also… » Why am I a librarian?

See Also… » Why am I a librarian? — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:00:43 +0000

[...] I have been fond of libraries for about as long as I can remember. I have always had very positive associations with libraries as fun places to explore. It is very easy for me to remember going to the library with my parents as a child, and it’s a habit I have kept up and now share with my own children. I have written a little about this, recently in the post Staying of of the wayand about about two years ago in Four more for the road. So working in a librry seemed like a reasonable thing to do in a way that, say, being a fireman or a forest ranger never did. [...]

By: Marianne

Marianne — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:49:48 +0000

Hm. There were a couple of librarians who made a big impression on me as a kid, but if I think about it, it was mostly by letting me be – they let me hang out alone without a parent when they weren’t really supposed to; they let me reshelve my own books when I wasn’t really supposed to; they let me check out adult books before I was really allowed to …

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:49:35 +0000

Right on! (I had to say it–all the other affirmations were already taken!)

By: joshua m. neff

joshua m. neff — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:29:13 +0000

I’m right there with you, pal. Well said.

By: Iris

Iris — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:35:56 +0000

Ditto. And Amen.