Monthly Archives: January 2010

On being a proud Librarian

By petercoyl | Published: January 15, 2010
I am proud to be a Librarian. When people ask what I do, I tell them. I am never sheepish, but I admit I smile when I say it because I know what their reaction will be: Awe. Wonder. Amazement. Incredulity. I am not embarrassed to say I love books, or the Dewey Decimal System [...]
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Read to me

By petercoyl | Published: January 14, 2010
Today I popped on over to a branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia to start an internship. In the midst of beginning and introductions the branch manager told me that he’d like me to help with a group of Montessori school kids (8 of them) that come in once a week. On Thursdays when [...]
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What’s a call number?

By petercoyl | Published: January 7, 2010
A new trend in libraries is the “bookstore” model of shelving books. the idea is to group items together like they do at bookstore by general topic [see this article on the topic]. Today I visited the Walnut Street West Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia. While perusing I noticed something was different. In [...]
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A shocking confession

By petercoyl | Published: January 5, 2010
I don’t think I am unusual for a Librarian in the sense that I have every Library card I ever was issued. Shocking, I know, but the more I think about it, it really isn’t. My first memories of the Library are in Sacramento, California where I lived til I was 9. We went to [...]
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