Happy break!

I'm staying with my friends for Thanksgiving break (the cons of family living in Korea: no family here for break; the pros: my friends are awesome).

Almost immediately, I noticed that I was super excited to talk about what I'm learning at library school. As we all updated each other on what we were studying or working on, somehow things about "librarians" managed to make it into almost every conversation.

Here are some things I've been conversing with my friends about:

- The Occupy Wall Street movement AND librarians' participation in the movement. We're planning on tracking down the People's Library later on this week and donating some books. Blog post on that later, if we manage to find it.

- I work at a medical library, so I was curious if my friends in med school used some of the databases I learned about at work. Med school friend's response: "We have databases?" Will proceed to show her Medline, Cochrane, and other goodies.

- Dogs! My friend has a dog, and I got into a conversation with her about Meg Backus and all the "libraries are not just about books" / "libraries for the community" work she has been doing! My friend was surprised that "librarians would be like that." I think it's about time to radically change their perceptions :)

Overall, my friends were amazed and excited to hear what librarianship is REALLY about - that I'm not just looking at books at all day, that I'm actually working towards being active in the community and facilitating social change.

Being outside of the classroom is inspiring me just as much, if not more!