Information Science Antelope

[Channel strength from your favorite fictional badass librarian.]

WWGD - What would Giles do?

[Learn that someone famous or historical was a librarian, instant respect increase]

Giacomo Casanova, Laura Bush, Jorge Luis Borges, Marcel Duchamp, J. Edgar Hoover…

[FIRST JOB WITH COLLECTION RESPONSIBILITIES: “HOW DO I COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT?”]

…because even if you took that class in library school, collecting is still a dark art that takes some time to feel comfortable with. We feel your pain.  

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Felt like an easily abusable superpower at first. Now I’m actually glad when someone puts a hold on one of the books I’ve been infini-borrowing. It means at least someone else wants to read it.

[mandatory box-lifting tutorial]

You may laugh now, but it’s all fun and games until someone strains their back lugging around encyclopedias or gets a box full of annual reports to the head off the top shelf.

[“So what did you read over winter break?”, *list a page of books*]

To be honest, I was mostly doing a lot of re-reading this winter, but I did sneak a few new novels and comic series in there!

[Need to validate your existence as a librarian to yourself or others,

There’s a Neil Gaiman quote for that]

Aside from the popular Google quote (“Google can bring you back 100000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.”), I’m quite fond of “I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.” and “Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.”

[Someone asks you for book recommendations on your favorite subject/genre,

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Now I can fix those dang errors…