One of the public librarians who spoke today, Kate McCaffrey, worked in a prison library for a couple of years. My husband and I just watched all five seasons of The Wire over the course of a few weeks a while ago, and I was reminded of this scene:
We're told that as a result of presentations from librarians who work in all different kinds of libraries, which will be happening all week, there's a good chance we'll change our mind about what kind of librarians we want to be. I am still pretty convinced I want to work in an academic library, but after today I think I'd rather work in a prison library than an urban public library!
I bring my laptop with me but try not to use it during class because I know I'll get distracted, but I'm always writing down links I want to investigate later, such as:
- International Children's Digital Library
- The Library of Congress: American Memory
- The Wayback Machine (archived web pages)
- Librarian's Internet Index: a list of trustworthy websites, compiled by librarians
I'm glad I have a few weeks after this class to decompress, because I feel like I'm getting stuffed with ideas and areas of interest I want to explore (not to mention I visited the Syracuse rose garden yesterday and now want to learn all I can about roses!). I'm really enjoying the class so far, even though I've been going pretty much nonstop for fourteen hours.
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