This episode we’re talking about how we ended up working in libraries, literary inspirations for our careers, and what you should think about before you decide you want a to work in a library. Plus: The Library Fairy! Excel exams! Catalogue cards!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books, Links, Articles, and Things

• The article from Matthew’s undergrad newspaper for which someone slept in the library (newly digitized!)
• The novelization of Batman and Robin that’s still in the the library
• Library Catalogue (and info about catalogue cards)
• The Music Man (the musical)
• • Marian The Librarian
• CEGEP – “a publicly funded pre‑university college in the province of Quebec”
• The Providence Athenæum
• Subscription Library
• Anchor Archive Zine Library
• Discworld
• • The Librarian
• This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson
• Second Life
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
  • We Are All Wyveraries: A Love Letter To Libraries
• Rupert Giles (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Lisa Simpson’s bookshelf: from the curator of Instagram’s Simpsons Library
• The Sword of Maiden’s Tears by Rosemary Edghill (the Library student/elf novel Meghan mentioned)
• Readers’ Advisory for Library Staff Facebook Group
• Library Employee Support Network Facebook Group
• The On-Call Waltz Anna and Meghan’s zine about precarious library work

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 19th when we’ll be talking about Military Non-Fiction!

Then come back on Tuesday, July 3rd when we’ll talk about other things we’re reading!