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This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.42 — 4,853 ratings — published 2010
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.88 — 128,407 ratings — published 2018
The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series)
by (shelved 23 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.10 — 1,047 ratings — published 1997
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,053 ratings — published 2018
I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.74 — 9,876 ratings — published 2014
Foundations of Library and Information Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.34 — 1,146 ratings — published 1998
The Librarian's Guide to Homelessness: An Empathy-Driven Approach to Solving Problems, Preventing Conflict, and Serving Everyone (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as librarianship)
avg rating 4.36 — 619 ratings — published 2018
The One-Shot Library Instruction Survival Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as librarianship)
avg rating 4.06 — 142 ratings — published 2014
What They Don't Teach You in Library School (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.42 — 165 ratings — published 2010
Library and Information Center Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.10 — 666 ratings — published 1993
The Black Belt Librarian: Real-World Safety & Security (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.54 — 753 ratings — published 2006
Library: An Unquiet History (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,959 ratings — published 2003
Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.32 — 461 ratings — published 2004
The New Librarianship Field Guide (Mit Press)
by (shelved 12 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.84 — 203 ratings — published 2016
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.51 — 13,002 ratings — published 2016
BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.43 — 953 ratings — published 2015
From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.93 — 970 ratings — published 1997
The Atlas of New Librarianship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.82 — 260 ratings — published 2011
Reference and Information Services: An Introduction (Library & Information Science Text)
by (shelved 12 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.32 — 511 ratings — published 1991
Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century : An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.48 — 839 ratings — published 2006
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.24 — 2,495 ratings — published 2022
The Library at Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,045 ratings — published 2006
Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.80 — 104 ratings — published 2008
Book Lust (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,666 ratings — published 2003
Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.53 — 2,817 ratings — published 2007
The Giver of Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as librarianship)
avg rating 4.29 — 537,193 ratings — published 2019
Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.20 — 1,815 ratings — published 2008
The Portable MLIS: Insights from the Experts (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.53 — 234 ratings — published 2008
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,607 ratings — published 2018
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.76 — 11,621 ratings — published 2017
Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
by (shelved 9 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.95 — 63 ratings — published 2015
This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as librarianship)
avg rating 4.19 — 859 ratings — published 2017
The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.82 — 12,619 ratings — published 2013
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as librarianship)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,495 ratings — published 2011
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,352 ratings — published 2010
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as librarianship)
avg rating 4.49 — 18,765 ratings — published 2009
The Nextgen Librarian's Survival Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.21 — 108 ratings — published 2006
Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.55 — 155 ratings — published 2003
Developing Library and Information Center Collections (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.26 — 290 ratings — published 1995
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.72 — 5,347 ratings — published 2024
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as librarianship)
avg rating 4.04 — 249,329 ratings — published 2021
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,880 ratings — published 2020
Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as librarianship)
avg rating 4.18 — 73 ratings — published
Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.77 — 327 ratings — published 2015
The Weeding Handbook: A Shelf-by-Shelf Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as librarianship)
avg rating 4.05 — 186 ratings — published 2015
Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction (Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies)
by (shelved 8 times as librarianship)
avg rating 4.09 — 117 ratings — published 2013
Marketing Today's Academic Library: A Bold New Approach to Communicating with Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.64 — 45 ratings — published 2009
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as librarianship)
avg rating 4.01 — 141,935 ratings — published 2020
The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as librarianship)
avg rating 4.13 — 221 ratings — published 2001
The Whole Library Handbook 4: Current Data, Professional Advice, and Curiosa about Libraries and Library Services (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as librarianship)
avg rating 3.75 — 108 ratings — published 1991
“I think you’re more an archivist than a librarian,” he said.
He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are unsentimental. They’re pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most popular books. Archivists, on the other hand, are only peripherally interested in what other people like, and much prefer the rare to the useful.
”They like everything,” he said, “gum wrappers as much as books.” He said this with a hint of disdain.
”Librarians like throwing away garbage to make space, but archivists,” he said, “they’re too crazy to throw anything out.”
”You’re right,” I said. ”I’m more of an archivist.”
”And I’m more of a librarian,” he said.
”Can we still be friends?”
― Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are unsentimental. They’re pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most popular books. Archivists, on the other hand, are only peripherally interested in what other people like, and much prefer the rare to the useful.
”They like everything,” he said, “gum wrappers as much as books.” He said this with a hint of disdain.
”Librarians like throwing away garbage to make space, but archivists,” he said, “they’re too crazy to throw anything out.”
”You’re right,” I said. ”I’m more of an archivist.”
”And I’m more of a librarian,” he said.
”Can we still be friends?”
― Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
“Let your actions speak louder than words, however: professionalism matters, while popularity is illusory, fleeting, and short-lived. Your contributions to the field, by enhancing service, creating new models to replace outdated practice, and quietly working to improve communities, matter most.”
― The Heart of Librarianship: Attentive, Positive, and Purposeful Change
― The Heart of Librarianship: Attentive, Positive, and Purposeful Change