So what does a librarian do all day?

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When I tell people I’m a librarian, they usually say one of two things: “You’re so lucky that you get to read books all day” or “it must be nice to work in such a quiet and relaxing place.”Dear reader, I hate to break it to you, but a librarian is not allowed to read all day and in 2026 you would be hard-pressed to find a silent library with a bespectacled librarian in a cardigan walking around shushing people. Cardigan? Yes. Spectacles? Sure. Shushing? No way.So, then what does a librarian do all day? Well, it really depends on what type of librarian we are talking about. A children’s librarian, a circulation librarian, and a reference librarian all have vastly different sets of responsibilities and will spend their days doing completely different things.As a Senior Reference & Adult Services Librarian my days are spent split between “on desk” and “off desk” time.

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