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moregraceful · 1 year

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As someone in library school who also wants to be a reference librarian, I love a research tangent!! And hearing about it!

omg I'm so sorry I just called our profession cringe. That was not directed at you, I promise. New librarians are our future!! If you're interested in reference in public libraries, feel free to ask me questions! I've been working in public libraries in various capacities for the past ten years and have spent about half of that working either partially or fully in reference positions so I for better or worse am great at research tangents and overthinking every reference question I have ever had. (Prior to that worked in an academic library, but in a conservation lab as a student assistant so have zero real world knowledge of how academic libraries work lol.)

#here is a story about the laziest i have ever been at the library in recent years:#yesterday a dad dragged his kid to the reference desk and he was like my kid needs to read more #and i was like ok! what do you like to read my friend #and the kid was like idk. books?#and yo i was NOT feeling like doing reader's advisory at 5:15pm when i had been on desk since 10am so i was like #do you like animals? do you want to read a book about facts about your favorite animal?#and the kid LIT UP and the dad had this look on his face like he wanted fiction but it was TOO LATE his kid was going bananas #bc it turns out he loves big cats and i was like WELL my friend we have SO MANY books about big cats and they have PICTURES #and then i saw them walk past later and the kid had like twenty national geographic books and i was like oh good you found something :)#and the dad was like ....yeah 😑 thank you 😑#buddy you said you wanted your kid to read!! you didn't say what!!!#ailing #cage replies #dragonsthough101

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