“I’m looking for a book. I can’t remember the title, but it’s only three words.”

“Eat, pray, love.”

“That’s it! How did you do that?”

I’m a librarian. It’s my job.

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Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

- Ray Bradbury

via A Literary Legend Fights for a Ventura County Library – NYTimes.com.

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THEM: Do you have any books on baby names?

ME: Come to the shelf with me… looks like someone has cleared us out. How about I get some in from another branch for you?

HER: That would be great. Thanks.

HIM: Sure.

ME: OK, I can get you “Brilliant baby names”, “Baby names for Australia”, “The complete book of baby names”

HER: Thanks.

ME: Oh, it looks like there’s one called “7,000 baby names” and another one “75,000 baby names for the 21st century” that are available. Shall I get those too.

HER: That sounds great, can you get all of them for us.

HIM: Do you have one that’s just got, like, 8 baby names in it?

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This guy leaves her for dead:

Thomas McArdle did a naughty thing 74 years ago. As a sixth grader at Chestnut Street Elementary School in Scottdale, PA, he checked out Laura Orvieto’s The Birth of Rome to complete a class assignment—and he never gave it back.

via School Library Book Returned 73 Years Overdue – 1/7/2010 – School Library Journal.

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Andrew is a trained zoologist who actually works as an author and illustrator and also does theatre work. He is also a dinosaur nut. He knows heaps about dinosaurs. His sessions were engaging, entertaining and informative. The kids (and teachers, and librarians) laughed and learned. The end of the session involved Andrew walking the kids (and teachers, and librarians) through some simple steps to drawing a dinosaur.

I thought I’d give him a plug in case any Melbourne based librarians or teachers are reading. He really is worth having to your school or library, as long as you give him enough time to get through what is a wealth of information.

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I figure after that going to all three sessions means I’ll be quite the artist by the end of the day.

Or not.

Either way, I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again one day, I rather like my job.

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In the last week or so, people (or person) have again found the blog with searches for “hate being a ya librarian” and “hate being a children’s librarian”.

If by any chance you are still reading, or if someone now finds this post by searching for these terms, I’d love to know what you’re looking for exactly.

Just curious.

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Wherever you happen to be reading it now, Jonathan published this post at: BookBoy.net

Wherever you happen to be reading it now, Jonathan published this post at: BookBoy.net