{"id":326,"date":"2009-01-12T22:54:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T02:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/12\/review-of-our-own-selves-by-michael-gorman\/"},"modified":"2009-04-04T22:59:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T02:59:05","slug":"review-of-our-own-selves-by-michael-gorman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Review of Our Own Selves, by Michael Gorman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image355\" height=\"239\" alt=\"our_own_selves.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/our_own_selves.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our Own Selves<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>More Meditations for Librarians<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Michael Gorman<\/p>\n<p>American Library Association, Chicago, 2005.\u00a0 224 pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alastore.ala.org\/\">http:\/\/www.alastore.ala.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a new librarian.\u00a0 I got my MLIS degree one year and one month ago.\u00a0 All the same, once something becomes a job, there&#8217;s a danger that it will become &#8220;just a job&#8221; instead of a calling.<\/p>\n<p>Reading a book like this one, slowly, one meditation per day, helped to remind me why I&#8217;m so proud and happy to be a librarian.\u00a0 It reminds me that, despite the day-to-day little annoying details, I am doing a good work from a noble tradition.<\/p>\n<p>As Michael Gorman says, &#8220;One of the great intangible benefits of library work is the sense of self-worth that comes when we realize that, no matter how humdrum the day or week, we are playing a part in bringing the good things of life to everyone and improving our communities, one life at a time.\u00a0 A library serving a community of any kind (a village, school, city, college or university, corporation, government) enriches that community, which would be impoverished and weakened if that library did not exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0838908969\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/our_own_selves.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/our_own_selves.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Our Own Selves More Meditations for Librarians by Michael Gorman American Library Association, Chicago, 2005.\u00a0 224 pages. http:\/\/www.alastore.ala.org\/ I&#8217;m a new librarian.\u00a0 I got my MLIS degree one year and one month ago.\u00a0 All the same, once something becomes a job, there&#8217;s a danger that it will become &#8220;just a job&#8221; instead of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-musings","category-nonfiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}