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The “Mutually Confounding” Relationship Between Librarian and Researcher

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The “Mutually Confounding” Relationship Between Librarian and Researcher
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I got into librarianship kind of like how a barfly gets into tending bar: you sit in the place for hours on end, day after day, appreciating the hell out of the person on the other side of the counter until—with no better options—you think, I could probably do that for a living.
I’d published a few books before I even considered becoming a librarian, but I’d long had an admiration for the job. When I was working on my masters thesis in history, I spent weeks at the downtown library in Milwaukee,

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