I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.
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I take every opportunity I can to speak to librarians.
What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.
The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.
Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.
The notion of a writer sitting in a library doing research isn't what I want. The research I love doing isn't found in a book. It's what it feels like to rappel down the side of a building; to train with a SWAT team; to hold a human brain in your hands; or to dive for pirate treasure. Those are things I've done to research my stories.
In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.