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+title: "Becoming a librarian"
+description: "What does it mean to be a librarian? A little bit of self-reflective fun for the weekend."
+slug: becoming-a-librarian
+date: 2017-11-04T19:38:01+00:00
+type: post
+tags:
+- Librarianship
+- Reflection
+- Silly
+---
+
+
+What is a librarian?
+Is it someone who has a masters degree
+in librarianship and information science?
+Is it someone who looks after information for other people?
+Is it simply someone who works in a library?
+
+I've been grappling with this question a lot lately
+because I've worked in academic libraries for about 3 years now
+and I never really thought that's something that might happen.
+People keep referring to me as "a librarian"
+but there's some imposter feelings here because
+all the librarians around me have much more experience,
+have skills in areas like cataloguing and collection management
+and, generally, have a librarian masters degree.
+
+So I've been thinking about what it actually means to me
+to be a librarian or not.
+
+*NB. some of these [may be tongue-in-cheek](https://www.flickr.com/photos/thewikiman/5954429160/sizes/l/in/photostream/)*
+
+Ways in which I am a librarian:
+
+- I work in a library
+- I help people to access and organise information
+- I have a cat
+- I like gin
+
+Ways in which I am not a librarian:
+
+- I don't have a librarianship qualification
+- I don't work with books 😉
+- I don't knit (though I can probably remember how if pressed)
+- I don't shush people or wear my hair in a bun (I can confirm that this is also true of every librarian I know)
+
+Ways in which I am a [shambrarian](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shambrarian):
+
+- I like beer
+- I have more IT experience and qualification than librarianship
+
+At the end of the day,
+I still don't know how I feel about this
+or, for that matter, how important it is.
+I'm probably going to accept whatever title people around me choose to bestow,
+though any label will chafe at times!