Neal Pollack has written an article on Eric Richmond, librarian and poet.
Richmond\’s fate was determined in the spring of 1982, when he was a junior in high school. He came downtown one day and went to the library on Michigan Avenue, where his mother worked. Over lunch, he recalls, he said to her:
\”You know, I wouldn\’t mind working for the library. It\’d be an OK job to have. It\’d beat the hell out of digging ditches or working in an office somewhere.\”
You can read the full article here: The Fierce Librarian.
Neal Pollack has written an article on Eric Richmond, librarian and poet.
Richmond\’s fate was determined in the spring of 1982, when he was a junior in high school. He came downtown one day and went to the library on Michigan Avenue, where his mother worked. Over lunch, he recalls, he said to her:
\”You know, I wouldn\’t mind working for the library. It\’d be an OK job to have. It\’d beat the hell out of digging ditches or working in an office somewhere.\”
You can read the full article here: The Fierce Librarian.Why did the Fierce Librarian decide to get his MLS?
\”I was like, well, the only way I\’m going to get anywhere is if I get my master\’s degree in library science. The original joke I made was that I was going to get my master\’s degree so I could spend the rest of my life working in the Chicago Public Library. After about six months of doing it, I realized that actually I was getting my master\’s degree so I didn\’t have to spend the rest of my life working in the Chicago Public Library.\”
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