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I wanted to write on an interesting feed I had from The New York Times-books RSS feed.  The articles was called "Library Science," and talked about Marilyn Johnson's new book This Book is Overdue which explored different aspects of being a librarian by looking at all differt types of various unexpected librarians.  I think this was a great article to read as a future librarian because it reminds me that I don't have to think of my future as only sitting behind a desk or reshelving books.  There a thousand different options out there right now, and I can invent any way to use my skills that I can image.  I'm really glad that Bloglines led me to this article, and I hope that other people who read it, who are not librarians, have more appreciation for them.  Johnson says that she thinks librarians are interesting becasue we make sure that the world's knowledge is preserved and continually resurrected and remembered.  I had never thought of my job that way, but I see that she makes a very good point.  No matter if I am looking through a card catalogue to help a patron and surfing the internet to try to find the answer to an very elusive question a partron is having trouble with, I am doing the exact same thing.  Librarians are doing their best to give all people access to information and make sure that we save everything important so now in the future, everyone will be able to answer their questions and continue learning for their whole lives.