This letter is great, because it is so true. I have not been to Library School myself (and somehow manage to perform my job) but I imagine that they don’t tell you about kids tracking poop through the Children’s Room, women having miscarriages in the bathroom, skateboarders walking in to the library in shock and covered in blood, teens putting a strange – and still unidentified – jelly substance on the light switches, teens making out in the bathrooms, dealing with homeless people or the various bodily fluids you will personally be cleaning up yourself.

These (and many more) have all happened to me in the mere 7 years I have worked in libraries. I imagine there will be more to come. It’s definitely one of those jobs where people have absolutely no idea what you actually do every day. I can tell you one thing….it does NOT involve reading!

Letters to a Young Librarian: Ten Things I Didn’t Learn in Library School, by Er…: When I first started working for the Public Library in 2007 there were numerous things that came up over the course of my day-to-day work th…