I’ve been working at a public library for around six weeks now. A few observations thus far: Libraries run on elastic bands and thousands of little bits of scrap paper. Were either of these things to run out, there would be no more libraries. When you work at a library, people assume you… Read More First Observations of Librarianship
On October the 1st, I had a job interview for a position as a ‘library adviser’ with the City of Edinburgh Council. They told me that because it was their first major staff intake for two years, they were holding a lot of interviews, and getting back to me might take a while –… Read More Reflections on Several Months of Stymied Employment
As though to apologise for the barren deadlands of the Autumn, events are piling in like snowdrifts. A lot of things are almost sorted: not rubberstamped, but getting there. New job, new flatmate, Master’s degree applications. Getting there. New job: in my last post, I said: “I had a couple job interviews which I invested… Read More Everything is All Sort of Happening at Once
Reasons to Remain 