What have I learned?
Today gave me some time to reflect, mostly because we got a decent break and I wasn't so tired from walking up and down endless stacks.
So what do I think so far? Well here are a couple of thoughts...
There are many ways to get into 'library'. You don't need to know how to catalogue or index or check out books. You can just have a special interest in a subject or be good at mixing and using glue.
Some things are 'born digital'. How on earth do you store these things forever? Also does that mean any document made in word is born digital?
In Canberra libraries seem to only take the form of giant storage containers. Collecting for collections sake rather than to support the needs of users or for collections to ever be seen and used. What is the point of this? I feel like an aberration as I am happy to throw things away - shock horror!
And finally I can never be anything but a teacher-librarian because I hate cataloging. And that is all that other librarians do it seems.
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