Oh, I love that, too. It's rare that the books I get are from my home branch. And I check my holds list several times a week to see what my next arrivals will be.

Susan, the librarians probably LOVE you. If my experience of librarians is anything to go by. They're going, "ooh, I wonder what she'll come up with next!"

OK, from now on I'll imagine them getting my requests and thinking "I bet this novel she's working on will be interesting," or "Where DOES she find out about all these interesting writers?"

Susan, the librarians probably LOVE you. If my experience of librarians is anything to go by. They're going, "ooh, I wonder what she'll come up with next!"

You're right, flea! Plus, then if they're good, we get to read them too (at home, at night, cause librarians don't get to read at work all day, contrary to popular opinion and all the advertising).

Plus, then if they're good, we get to read them too (at home, at night, cause librarians don't get to read at work all day, contrary to popular opinion and all the advertising).

What a rip off! You at least get to do that thing where you take off the glasses, and let down your hair, such that you're suddenly smokin', right?

My boss is an "Entrepreneurship" educator. She recently said that "Well someone like a LIBRARIAN wouldn't have the social skills to become an entrepreneur" and I almost strangled her as I would LOVE to be a referance libraian who gets to speak to people all day long and help them learn how to find things in the library and on the internet. It isn't a COMPLETELY anti-social profession after all!

That's funny...cause the librarian I know best is quite social. I see her name in the paper all the time cause she's the head of the Procurement Department for libraries in Phoenix or something. (Of course, there probably are shy librarians, of course.)

You at least get to do that thing where you take off the glasses, and let down your hair, such that you're suddenly smokin'

Me, unfortunately not. But I can't blame that on libraries and boring clothes. Rather, on too many cookies and sitting in front of the computer too long.

there probably are shy librarians

Yes. But not so many. Who could work a reference desk, and liaise with user groups, and set up cool activities, and be shy?

libkitty, I have something I want you to read that a friend wrote. We're trying to figure out a way to use it at our library, but you may like it.

Is your profile addy (if there is one, haven't looked yet) good to mail it to?

Shy librarians tend to become catalogers and systems librarians, IME. That's probably the focus I should have gone for, come to think, as I have consistently had a talent for finding books with crappy OCLC records.