Comments on: What’s a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? Or How I Came to Work in Libraries http://librarianbyday.net/2009/12/07/whats-a-girl-like-you-doing-in-a-place-like-this-or-how-i-came-to-work-in-libraries/ by Bobbi Newman | I'm not that kind of librarian Fri, 17 May 2013 02:47:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bobbi Newman http://librarianbyday.net/2009/12/07/whats-a-girl-like-you-doing-in-a-place-like-this-or-how-i-came-to-work-in-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-1957 Bobbi Newman Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:09:22 +0000 http://librarianbyday.net/?p=2564#comment-1957 Ned – I think my friend thought I’d be good at it because she considered me bookish and she thought being a librarian means what most of the public thinks that you get to work with books. What’s interesting is at this point in my career I have very little contact with books, of any format, at work. Maybe I just got lucky ;-)

]]> By: thewikiman http://librarianbyday.net/2009/12/07/whats-a-girl-like-you-doing-in-a-place-like-this-or-how-i-came-to-work-in-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-1956 thewikiman Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:40:21 +0000 http://librarianbyday.net/?p=2564#comment-1956 Bobbi this is fantastic, thank you! There’s no time limit so no need to apologise at all (in fact, one part of the Library Day in a Life methodology we so far *haven’t* been able to steal from you is the annual element; we’re working on it…).

I’m really interested in the way library jobs change by the time people end up actually doing them. Your friend said you’d be good at it, and it turns out she was right – but really can she have had much idea of the kind of things you actually do in your job in 2009..? It is, as you say, funny how things work out.

]]> By: Winnie http://librarianbyday.net/2009/12/07/whats-a-girl-like-you-doing-in-a-place-like-this-or-how-i-came-to-work-in-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-1954 Winnie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:35:20 +0000 http://librarianbyday.net/?p=2564#comment-1954 If 4 fulltime/6 part time is tiny what are we? With one full time and 3 part time we must be less than tiny. And there are two libraries nearby who have one part time employee.

]]> By: Bobbi Newman http://librarianbyday.net/2009/12/07/whats-a-girl-like-you-doing-in-a-place-like-this-or-how-i-came-to-work-in-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-1953 Bobbi Newman Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:02:53 +0000 http://librarianbyday.net/?p=2564#comment-1953 Thanks Camilla, I’ve been looking for a chance to show them off on the blog other than – look at my cute shoes :-)
Its interesting how we end up somewhere much different that we planned

]]> By: Bobbi Newman http://librarianbyday.net/2009/12/07/whats-a-girl-like-you-doing-in-a-place-like-this-or-how-i-came-to-work-in-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-1952 Bobbi Newman Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:01:51 +0000 http://librarianbyday.net/?p=2564#comment-1952 Thanks Andy! It really is funny how things work out sometimes :-)

]]> By: Camilla B. http://librarianbyday.net/2009/12/07/whats-a-girl-like-you-doing-in-a-place-like-this-or-how-i-came-to-work-in-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-1951 Camilla B. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:49:05 +0000 http://librarianbyday.net/?p=2564#comment-1951 Like the story. I also ended up in grad. library school at the suggestion of a friend. What a happy accident. btw, love the shoes. :]

]]> By: AndyW http://librarianbyday.net/2009/12/07/whats-a-girl-like-you-doing-in-a-place-like-this-or-how-i-came-to-work-in-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-1950 AndyW Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:18:17 +0000 http://librarianbyday.net/?p=2564#comment-1950 Great story, Bobbi!

I always find it fascinating how people got to where they are now. The culmination of events, the right people at the right time, and lucky accidents make for wonderful tales.

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