I just discovered a new librarian blog called Library Dust. The blogger, Michael McGrorty, is on the ALA council. He’s so funny!
“I met Ruth Seid in her office at the Central Library of the Los Angeles Public system about two years ago, though it seems like centuries now. Ruth is the East Valley Area Manager for LAPL, a job which seems to involve much more paperwork than any librarian ought to have to endure. In the months I’ve known Ruth, she has become like a sister to me, which is to say that I want to kill her about once a week. It goes without saying that we are very good friends. The benefit of knowing Ruth is that she has disabused me of any myths about the profession. When she comes around to visit after work she seems to have been run through a colander. She has taught me that library administration is not for me. For that matter, it might not be for anybody, but Ruth is one of the people who do it, because she loves the library, its patrons and the people who work there. I see a lot of Ruth. We have a perfect understanding: She tells me I am wrong about nearly everything and I tell her the same. We argue, even about matters we agree on. She has bad traits that are almost precisely like mine, which I find practically unbearable in others. In order to pay her back for her many kindnesses, I have forced her to buy a dog she didn’t want, introduced her to the grief of growing roses and told her how to arrange her hair. We have reached a stage in our relations wherein she often responds to my questions by extending the middle fingers of both hands in reply. Is that love or what?” http://librarydust.typepad.com/library_dust/2005/04/ruth_seid.html
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