0107 Sideline - How Do I Pick My Next Book?
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Joining in the conversation started by Gareth at @bookssongsandothermagic responding to Steve Donoghue's probe video @saintdonoghuevideo links below
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Love the Tarot card analogy - for a sort of intuitive choosing - whether or not that's official mood-reading!
Does Dr Jennie read tarot? Asking because of previous Poetry Thursday
@@heathereads Yes, she has quite a few decks
9:55 how cool! I recently picked up a nonfiction on Herod the Great, but I love the idea of an out-of-print book like the one you mentioned, even though I am very picky when it comes to historical fiction.
Hi Tahlia, I may be wrong, but the impression I got from the Publishers' Weekly write up was that Zora Neale Hurston was doing a reimagining of Herod. Let me look up the exact phrasing they use .... "complicates the New Testament demonizing portrait of the Judean king"
Librarians who aren't book-focused are rare but I've met a handful -- they tend to show up in academic or special libraries rather than in public libraries. They also pop up in technical services roles.
This fact fascinates me. So those non-book loving librarians, what do you think gave them job satisfaction? Is it just the clerical or administrative aspect of the job? The atmosphere of academia?
@@heathereads Librarianship is a huge field and book-love can be a tiny part of it. There are a lot of stereotypes that float around the idea of being a librarian. A good 2018 essay about some of the risks of the stereotype that might interest you - a search for Fobazi Ettarh and the term “vocational awe” should locate it.
One non-book loving librarian I knew loved music far more than books and took great pleasure in making sure that her library could provide all the standards docs engineering students and faculty needed. Another spent as much time as he could biking and during work hours enjoyed making sure the systems needed to keep everything running actually worked.
Much of library work is about service (in a broad sense) and about pleasure in organizing information - neither of which require book-love. Clerical and admin work are often stereotyped as boring but there can be a lot of job satisfaction in solving catalogue problems, or making sure systems work, or helping staff find ways to be content in their jobs. There’s also the white knuckle thrill of budgets - can you find a way to cover a million dollar shortfall in a budget?
@@heathereads Librarianship is a huge field and book-love can be a tiny part of it. There are a lot of stereotypes that float around the idea of being a librarian. A good 2018 essay about some of the risks of the stereotype that might interest you - a search for Fobazi Ettarh and the term”vocational awe” should locate it.
One non-book loving librarian I knew loved music far more than books and took great pleasure in making sure that her library could provide all the standards docs engineering students and faculty needed. Another spent as much time as he could biking and during work hours enjoyed making sure the systems needed to keep everything running actually worked.
Much of library work is about service (in a broad sense) and about pleasure in organizing information - neither of which require book-love. Clerical and admin work are often stereotyped as boring but there can be a lot of job satisfaction in solving catalogue problems, or making sure systems work, or helping staff find ways to be content in their jobs. There’s also the white knuckle thrill of budgets - can you find a way to cover a million dollar shortfall in a budget?
Librarianship is a huge field and book-love can be a tiny part of it. There are a lot of stereotypes that float around the idea of being a librarian. A good 2018 essay about some of the risks of the stereotype that might interest you - a search for Fobazi Ettarh and the term vocational awe should locate it.