Strategies for Working With Shy Professionals

Bob Cox passed along Strategies for Working With Shy Professionals from careerjournal.com, and in my continuing effort to prolong all librarian stereotypes, I post it as a helpful guide on how to deal with librarians, because we are all shy.

Plus, you really can\’t beat this opening paragraph:

\”There was a flood recently in the basement of the Boston Public Library. It soaked 50,000 cartons of books. But water wasn\’t the only thing the broken pipe unleashed: It also brought forth a flood of emotions from the library staff. One suffered nightly panic attacks. Another compared it to a death in the family. When all was said and done, 25 employees ended up in grief counseling.\”