Library Workers Day
This Canadian Library Workers Day, explore true stories of librarians making a difference and facing today's challenges. Gain insight into the challenges they face today and be inspired by their impact.
The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
Hammer, Joshua, 1957- author
2016
Dark archives : a librarian's investigation into the science and history of books bound in human skin
Rosenbloom, Megan, 1981- author
2020
Megan Rosenbloom, a medical librarian and a cofounder of the Death Salon, seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy - books bound in human skin. Rosenbloom exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, women, and indigents whose lives are bound together in this rare, scattered, and disquieting collection.
Dear Fahrenheit 451 : love and heartbreak in the stacks : a librarian's love letters and breakup notes to the books in her life
Spence, Annie, author
2017
How can I help you
Sims, Laura, 1973-, author
2023
No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality, and charm. In fact, Margo is a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her wake. Then Patricia, a recent graduate and failed novelist, joins the library staff. Patricia quickly notices Margo's subtly sinister edge, and watches her carefully. When a patron's death in the library bathroom gives her a hint of Margo's mysterious past, Patricia can't resist digging deeper - even as this new fixation becomes all-consuming.
I work at a public library : a collection of crazy stories from the stacks
Sheridan, Gina, author
2014
Librarian tales : funny, strange, and inspiring dispatches from the stacks
Ottens, William, author
2020
"Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly of librarian William Ottens's experience working behind service desks and in the stacks of public libraries, most recently at the Lawrence Public Library in Kansas. In Librarian Tales, published in cooperation with the American Library Association, readers will learn about strange things librarians have found in book drops, weird and obscure reference questions, the stress of tax season, phrases your local librarians never want to hear, stories unique to children's librarians, and more."--Provided by publisher.
Overdue : reckoning with the public library
Oliver, Amanda (Librarian), author
2022
When Amanda Oliver began work as a school librarian, fueled by a lifelong love of books and a desire to help, she felt qualified for the job. What she learned was that librarians are expected to serve as mediators and mental-health-crisis support professionals, customer service reps and administrators of overdose treatment, fierce loyalists to institutionalized mythology and enforced silence, and arms of state surveillance. Based on firsthand experiences from six years of professional work as a librarian in high-poverty neighborhoods of Washington, DC, as well as interviews and research, Overdue begins with Oliver's first day at Northwest One, the DC Public Library branch where she would ultimately end her library career. Through her experience at this branch, Oliver highlights the national problems that have existed in libraries since they were founded, troublingly at odds with the common romanticization of the library as a shining beacon of equality: racism, segregation, and economic oppression.
The personal librarian : a novel
Benedict, Marie, author
2021
The remarkable story of J. P. Morgan's personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white to leave a lasting legacy that enriched the nation.
That librarian : the fight against book banning in America
Jones, Amanda, author
2024
"Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivity on the front lines of our vicious culture wars."--Provided by publisher.