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This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information
Kyle Cassidy
4.2 AVERAGE
72 reviews for:
This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information
Kyle Cassidy
4.2 AVERAGE
Read part for a class I taught, then kept as our coffee table book for a while and read here and there. Lovely book!
Rating 5 stars for all the badass librarians out there but I did have a bit of trouble getting through this one. I loved the little stories in between the photos that explained different uses for library‘s in different forms of libraries and peoples different experiences in libraries. But the quotations underneath each photo got very repetitive that I almost didn’t want to read them individually by the end of the book I just wanted to skim it and then be done with it. The paper was also glossy so it was very hard to read in a room with overhead lighting.
This was a great love letter to libraries and librarians everywhere and how important it is to have access to information in one of the last free spaces in the world.
This was a great love letter to libraries and librarians everywhere and how important it is to have access to information in one of the last free spaces in the world.
medium-paced
An amazing and inspiring read! I couldn't put it down. We as librarians wear so many different hats and this book truly shows that.
A heartwarming ode to libraries and the people who work within them, chock-full of quotes, interviews, vignettes, and essays all about these wonderful institutions. As a budding librarian myself, this book made me feel immensely proud of my profession and would highly recommend it to anyone else in the field!
I accidently got a NetGalley copy of this.
I clicked on an ad in a Book Reviewer Newsletter that I get and it took me to the book's NetGalley page. Now, usually when this happens it gives you the option to request it or 'read it now'. In this case, however, it took it upon itself to invite me and now I must read it to keep up my NetGalley review ratio.
It does seem interesting; I just wasn't ready to download another NetGalley yet.
UPDATE:
This book was divided into sections; there would be a number of quotes from librarians on why they loved their work, followed by a longer passage telling about the history of a library or a special program being run somewhere in the country.
Some of these larger sections I was interested in, such as the one written by a librarian who began an American Girl Doll lending program at her library. I did enjoy learning from many of these sections, and seeing ways that libraries were used other than for simply loaning books.
The short sections accompanying the picture of a librarian, telling why the person featured in the image loved their job, weren't as interesting to me. Some I found more intriguing than others. Though they all were phrased differently, the few concept behind them all remained the same. However, it isn't the author's fault that librarians tend to all love their jobs for similar reasons.
The formatting of this book did not translate well into digital form. Some images were small, some took up a while page, some were upside down, and some of the wording faded into a light grey on certain pages. However, in a physical form the book's visual appeal would be much stronger, especially considering all the beautiful images of people, something that I consider to be a highlight of this book.
I would call this more of a coffee table book; something that you would flip through to find a short section that interested you, or that would interest your guests.
It wass interesting to read some of the history behind libraries, and look at the images, but isn't likely that you are going to want to read this book all at once.
I clicked on an ad in a Book Reviewer Newsletter that I get and it took me to the book's NetGalley page. Now, usually when this happens it gives you the option to request it or 'read it now'. In this case, however, it took it upon itself to invite me and now I must read it to keep up my NetGalley review ratio.
It does seem interesting; I just wasn't ready to download another NetGalley yet.
UPDATE:
This book was divided into sections; there would be a number of quotes from librarians on why they loved their work, followed by a longer passage telling about the history of a library or a special program being run somewhere in the country.
Some of these larger sections I was interested in, such as the one written by a librarian who began an American Girl Doll lending program at her library. I did enjoy learning from many of these sections, and seeing ways that libraries were used other than for simply loaning books.
The short sections accompanying the picture of a librarian, telling why the person featured in the image loved their job, weren't as interesting to me. Some I found more intriguing than others. Though they all were phrased differently, the few concept behind them all remained the same. However, it isn't the author's fault that librarians tend to all love their jobs for similar reasons.
The formatting of this book did not translate well into digital form. Some images were small, some took up a while page, some were upside down, and some of the wording faded into a light grey on certain pages. However, in a physical form the book's visual appeal would be much stronger, especially considering all the beautiful images of people, something that I consider to be a highlight of this book.
I would call this more of a coffee table book; something that you would flip through to find a short section that interested you, or that would interest your guests.
It wass interesting to read some of the history behind libraries, and look at the images, but isn't likely that you are going to want to read this book all at once.
As a professional librarian myself who was lucky enough to access this book through NetGalley, I don't believe my (very admittedly biased) adoration for this books knows any bounds. Through the proud words of numerous librarians, information and literacy professionals, writers, and many other, this book does the grand service of showing how libraries are still quite important at both micro and macro level. Many of the women and men interviewed for this book reveal how they and their institutions strive in all matter of ways to specifically adapt to provide for the individual needs of their unique communities. Many others meanwhile help provide the crucial insight that all these libraries who are as diverse as the people and places that they serve continue to offer an array of critical and near-universal benefits, ranging from serving as bastions of equal access in an increasingly unequal society, to their steadfast positions as place of refuges and safe spaces to those who enter their doors.
To put that all in a much more succinct matter - this book is an effective and beautiful reminder from librarians and their allies that despite what many may say, libraries still very much matter in today's world, and in far more ways than one (myself included) may expect.
To put that all in a much more succinct matter - this book is an effective and beautiful reminder from librarians and their allies that despite what many may say, libraries still very much matter in today's world, and in far more ways than one (myself included) may expect.
This book is a photo project celebrating librarians and the work they do, with short interviews and quotes from the librarians photographed. There were interesting stories and articles mixed in there with the photographs all centred around the importance of libraries. I didn't quite have chance to finish it due to time constraints, but I would definitely like to and can highly recommend it from what I did read. Perhaps I will borrow it from a library at some point in the future!
[Free ARC from Net Galley]
[Free ARC from Net Galley]
"This is What a Librarian Looks Like" is a display of what librarianism really means, and all the (often unexpected) ways in which librarians serve their communities. Through essays, photos, and interviews, Kyle Cassidy highlights why libraries matter and are, despite what many think, still relevant and even necessary for the growth of society.
