I didn't start out with plans to become a librarian. At first I wanted to be a lawyer. As a senior in college, I interned at the local legal aid society, and soon found that working with people--and not with the details of the law--was what I loved. I learned more about the legal system and wrote it all up in a senior thesis. It was the height of Reagan's rule, and I was depressed that politics determined access to the legal system through legal service. At the same time I was working as a page at Santa Cruz Pulbic Library to pay the bills. I'd told the hiring committee that "I loved the way libraries smell." (I received snickers from this comment from the hiring committee...little did I know...) Well, eventually I realized that under my nose was the answer to what to do after college: continue my work in the ultimate democratic institution: libraries. So I did. My resume gives the details of how I got from there to here.
Because life isn't all serious:
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