What do librarians do in the summer? July 29, 2009
Posted by Luba Zakharov in : Uncategorized , trackbackWe take the ‘comfortable shoe’ stereotype to task by wearing sandals with sweaters to offset the air conditioned temperature in the stacks and the triple digit heat index outside.
We put away books.
We work on projects whose end seems nowhere in sight, remembering the words our mentors told us: “library work is like emptying the ocean with a teaspoon.”
We wonder why we’ve decided to do this for a living.
We prepare for the summer heat with linen and hemp clothes using wrinkled as an excuse to stay cool.
We find the books you’ve lost.
We stay current, learning new tools that will give you better access to our collections.
We wear our hair differently.
We prepare to teach workshops in the Fall and Spring.
We walk the stacks.
We creatively team together on projects like shifting books to make room for new ones, checking to see that the online record, the LC classification system and the barcodes match.
We work with patrons who come to us in smaller groups.
We bend our brains around theology by reading new ways of knowing faith. This keeps us sharp and ready to tackle the kinds of questions we hear from you.
We get our cars tuned up or repaired.
We eat lunch.
We go to summer conferences.
We take vacations, leave the country, inhale salty ocean breezes and wait for you to come and study in the library.
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