Sonderbooks Book Review of

Our Own Selves

More Meditations for Librarians

by Michael Gorman

I'm a new librarian. I got my MLIS degree one year and one month ago. All the same, once something becomes a job, there's a danger that it will become "just a job" instead of a calling.

Reading a book like this one, slowly, one meditation per day, helped to remind me why I'm so proud and happy to be a librarian. It reminds me that, despite the day-to-day little annoying details, I am doing a good work from a noble tradition.

As Michael Gorman says,