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Happy Birthday to the best and most magical person I know! @bbbingaaa
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A love letter: Thinking of the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries today. It was my dream job, and I was lucky enough to work there from 2011-2016. It was my version of a masters degree, it was my home. I still miss the smell of the books, the stack 3 ghost, the 10:30 group breaks on the steps of south or north gardens, even the “I’m just looking” Lookersâ„ąïž that always picked up a book to flip through it without officially signing in. I miss doing inventory of books that the staff had checked out in their offices, the old way, manually scanning each and every one of each and every staff member’s books - and noting the various levels of care or lack there of (book marking with the heel of a stiletto, or the more common, but frowned upon  post-it). I miss shelving in stack B. I miss the secret note in the elevator that I only discovered during my last week of working there. I miss sitting on book carts at the end of the day. I miss all of my former co-workers, my friends. I miss walking through the museum before it opened, all dark, at 9:05-9:10 three days a week. Seth, I’m sorry I only arrived properly “on time” maybe once or twice in all of my 5 years there. I miss the kismet of finding just the right book, just when I needed it. I always credited the ghost of Daniel Burnham for that. It is definitely in my top 3 places on earth, and I just wanted to remember these things today and send love to my library. And, I would tag Jack Brown here if I could.
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