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.

I finished Cruisie's Welcome to Temptation (traded with Nicole for my copy of Tell Me Lies) at Deb's, and read the excerpt in the back for Fast Women. Didn't have Fast Women, had to console myself with Mairelon the Magician on the trip home. It's okay, but it's no Cruisie. Must find Fast Women. Want. Want now.

I will make myself finish Mairelon before allowing myself to start Sorcery and Cecelia. Or I may track down a used copy of Fast Women....

Profile addy is good, Kat. I'll look for your thing.

Shy librarians tend to become catalogers and systems librarians, IME.

I had a whole long thing saying that shy librarians became catalogers and gov docs librarians, but then didn't want to a) confuse people, or b) perpetuate stereotypes. I can see that I shouldn't have worried about that here!

Alicia, I love The Robber Bride.