Hi Bethany,

Thanks for sharing! I really liked the perspective you took on librarianship as connection. As a creative writer, I empathized with the idea that all of us are trying to tell a story, and the purpose of doing so is to find community. Storytelling can be such a powerful tool to that endeavor. How cool is it that as future librarians,…[Read more]

Hi Terri,
Thanks for sharing! I totally know what you mean about change being uncomfortable — I’ve always struggled with adapting to change too. Especially when some of our experiences with change have not been so good. The example you brought up around COVID is a great example. It definitely forced a lot of people, and definitely libraries, to…[Read more]

Hi Claire,

Great post! I agree with a lot of what you’ve written here. The library I work in has gone through many phases of late fee practices. We generally don’t charge late fees for our own books, but because we’re an academic library we have high interlibrary loan use. That’s usually when we get into sticky territory, because other…[Read more]

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