All professions suffer from a skewed public perception of their work. The trouble is, for most professions this perception is formed from the exciting side of their job: police catch criminals; doctors cure sick people; firefighters rush heroically into burning buildings. For information professionals, it’s formed from the most boring and routine part of their job: stamping books, putting documents into boxes, making lists.
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Bethan Ruddock, “Is the reading room an echo chamber?”, Archives Hub Blog, 29 July 2010
