Hello everyone. My name is bagel but you can call me Andrew. Or wait maybe it’s the other way around. Either way I try to not share too much information about myself on the public internet so I am running with an alias here. The blog is named bagel junction after a bagel shop I used to go to as a child. It was a very good bagel shop but sadly it has been closed for some time now.

I currently live in Berkeley but I was raised in New Jersey and also lived in Washington DC for  many years. I’m in my second semester at SJSU and while I initially enrolled with an eye towards doing archival work but, in taking my core courses, I’ve become equally curious about the public library side of things. In my past life I worked as both a professional online content mule and the owner of a small retail shop and I never exactly figured out how to reconcile the distance between the two. So I’m excited to see how librarians are going about integrating these two worlds.