Library moments

Two weeks into my grad school experience, and I'm not quite adjusted. I would rather knit than read about bibliographic objectives, and sometimes I do.

However, working in a library gives me the all-important context for these theoretical concepts. My job is so enjoyable, so varied and, sometimes, so challenging that I know it will be worth it.

This is why I have faith that the dry, jargon-laden information science textbooks may actually have something to impart:

• Discovering a book that smells precisely like clean linens dried in the sun.
• Retaining my patience while trying to read synonyms for "old" to a half-deaf man over the phone. He liked "antique" but not "geriatric."
• Feeling a rush of satisfaction after finding, in just a few moments, the name of the author who writes, as the patron phrased it, "Swedish crime novels." Thank you, Amazon.
• Hearing that a little boy who lost his mom told my co-worker that his name was "Bitchin." He repeated it three times. (It was actually Benton).

Comments

[Leah]

hahaha benton . . .

also, I know how you feel about reading. I am so excited to go to Maine. But excited to read the 300 page manual they sent me? not so much. I've got 40 pages down . . .