I'm a Librarian!

Library in Aspen

Well, technically, not yet, but still! I need to pass the physical... I wonder what that entails?
In the meantime, while I am going through the process, I went on a trip to Colorado to climb rocks, hike mountains, bike historic rail routes, tube and paddle board down Glenwood Canyon (then bike back up it), sit in hot sulfur springs and of course, visit libraries. I like to see what types of buildings are used for libraries, what services are being offered and best of all, what books inhabit their new material shelves.

Here is a list of titles I'll be looking up soon in order of when I discovered them:

• The Year of the Flood by M. Atwood after Oryx and Crake
• Da vinci's Ghost by Lester 
• High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service by Solomon 
• Floating Worlds: The letters of Edward Garey & Peter e. Neumeyer 
• Just Send Me Word by Figes
• Tyranny of the Textbook by Jobrack 
• the Voluntourist by Budd
• Queen of America by Urrea
• Book of Madness and Cures by O'Melveny
• Lone Wolf by Picoult

• Absolution by Flannery
• Liberator by Harland (teen)
• Rash by Hautman (teen)
• Unwind by Shusterman (teen)
• Among the enemy by Haddix (teen)
• Americus by Hill (graphic novel)
• Wonderland by Kovac (GN)
• Permaculture Handbook by Bane
• Handy Dad in the Great Outdoors by Davis
• Rust by Mars
• Hitchers by McIntosh
• Men in Space by McCarthy
• Taliban Cricket Club by Murari
• Second Person Singular by Kashua and Ginsburg

I didn't get any pictures of the Denver library exterior, but here's some cool stuff I found inside:

 Lost? Can't find your book? Don't know what floor you're on, much less which floor you need to go to or where the escalator is?

Pick up one of the many phones at the Central branch of the Denver Public Library and ask a librarian!

Love it.

So here's a unique concept... instead of staff recommendations or at least along with them, recommendations by users of the library! We go from experts to community.

There were several other browsing topics like this such as the "We Live" which had health, personal safety and genealogy sections and "We Explore" for travel in and around Colorado.


Finally, some cool posters. I love the idea behind the digitization service and the blue poster is just really cool use of typography.