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What book would you recommend to explain to someone what you do for a living? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by MariaRomanov@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] MariaRomanov@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got any good books on librarian science?

[–] Dan_Phillips@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good question. None that I think would be fun for the general public...

... although...

Perhaps you might enjoy the 1976 Canadian novel "Bear", which features an Archivist as the protagonist. It won the Governor General's Literary Award when it came out.

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4885078M/Bear