How to Become a Terrible Library Patron in 5 Easy Steps
Some of you, I can tell, are like I was: dewy-eyed and idealistic. Those days are gone for me. I am now a terrible library patron, the kind that other readers are loath to encounter. How did I get here? It was easy.
Step 1: Set a Goal
I always liked comics, but until this summer, I’d never set about reading them with any real intent. So, spurred on by a bunch of Rioters doing their own deep comics dives, I decided to read as many landmark series as I could get my hands on. There are a lot of comics that fit this category. This is good. The bigger the goal, the more room there is go off the rails. Want to read twenty-five books about American Presidents? Every astronaut biography ever written? The complete Berenstain Bears? Go big or go home! (But don’t go home yet, because then the rest of the steps will be really hard to pull off.)
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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Some of you, I can tell, are like I was: dewy-eyed and idealistic. Those days are gone for me. I am now a terrible library patron, the kind that other readers are loath to encounter. How did I get here? It was easy.
