{"id":2197,"date":"2018-12-03T12:47:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-i-became-a-librarian-and-why-i-chose-to-be-lousy-on-twitter\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:28:40","slug":"why-i-became-a-librarian-and-why-i-chose-to-be-lousy-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/why-i-became-a-librarian-and-why-i-chose-to-be-lousy-on-twitter","title":{"rendered":"Why I became a librarian and why I chose to be &#8220;lousy&#8221; on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><em>This story has been shared by popular Twitter persona, Lousy Librarian (<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LousyLibrarian\"><b>@<\/b>LousyLibrarian<\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">I suspect a lot of librarians are people who like media and information and books and who find their way into the field because you get to work with those things but it&#8217;s also a professionalized career that requires education and credentialing, sort of like lawyers and MBAs but without the hassle of having to manage all that extra salary.\u00a0In my case, it also helped that throughout my educational career, <b>unlike some people, going to the library wasn&#8217;t something I dreaded. I actually liked it there.<\/b> It was a haven full of possibilities, and musty smells, and squinty-eyed antisocial people. So when it became time to consider graduate school, something in me awakened and cried out, &#8220;I could be one of those squinty people!&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">There&#8217;s also a stereotype that librarians get into the field because they&#8217;re old-fashioned reclusive relics who only love books.\u00a0But that is absolutely not the case with me; I also have passionate feelings for bound volumes of old periodicals.\u00a0I could also be persuaded to summon affection for a roll of microfilm, if it treats me right.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">There&#8217;s actually an interesting anecdote behind my choice of the Twitter handle <a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LousyLibrarian\"><b>@<\/b>LousyLibrarian<\/a>.\u00a0Well, it&#8217;s not so much a great anecdote as it is a string of words. 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So basically, at the time that I created the account, the main thing I loved about &#8220;Lousy Librarian&#8221; was that it was available.\u00a0And this was probably because the only people who use the word &#8220;lousy&#8221; are contemporaries of Holden Caulfield (who is, as you might know, the iconic character who embodies the spirit of teenage rebellion in J.D.Salinger\u2019s classic <i>Catcher in the Rye<\/i>, but who isn&#8217;t widely known for his mastery of fresh twenty-first-century slang).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">All the unavailable Twitter monikers I tried were along the same thematic lines though (formula: derisive adjective + the word &#8220;librarian&#8221;), so the first thing I learned was that there are a lot of performatively self-loathing librarians out there in the world.\u00a0This kind of makes sense, I guess \u2014 librarianship is a service profession; you go into it to help people, who are sometimes in various stages of crisis and don&#8217;t always have sophisticated social skills to communicate with librarians. Also, being incessantly helpful can be wearying work (or so I&#8217;ve read. In the <i>Journal of Incessantly Helpful Studies<\/i>).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Meanwhile, it&#8217;s often the case that your day-to-day efforts on the job go wildly underappreciated by the people you&#8217;re helping (who wish only that you&#8217;d managed somehow to be more helpful more quickly) or your colleagues (who are pretty sure you came back from your break two minutes late but they&#8217;re not going to say anything) or your superiors (who would really prefer that you do more work, cost less money, be less trouble and stop trying to get away with all the things they&#8217;re confident you&#8217;re probably trying to get away with).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">It&#8217;s an emotionally discouraging cocktail, and if it were being advertised as a pharmaceutical drug, the legally required fine print would warn that the side effects may include resentment, loss of motivation, fatigue, irritability and chronic snark. As a result, there may hypothetically be days when you find yourself giving less than 100% on the job (or, again, so I&#8217;ve read), leading to a nagging sense of professional insufficiency, and thus when you find yourself creating a Twitter profile and trying to sum yourself up in a word, &#8220;lousy&#8221; may spring to mind \u2013 of course after all the other, unavailable, adjectives that sprang to mind first.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Also, the name is alliterated. So that&#8217;s fun.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">I don&#8217;t know what I expected when I first started posting on Twitter.\u00a0I thought it might be a place to say the things you&#8217;re not allowed to say on the job.\u00a0And sure, I wanted not to feel entirely like I was shouting into a void, so I hoped that some of my yawps might get some kind of minor affirmation, even if that affirmation took the form of two lukewarm likes from Russian bots (which, for quite a while early on, was pretty much in the neighborhood of what I was getting.\u00a0Six likes was a big day!)\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">Lousy Librarian is averaging more than six likes a day now, which is nice. 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