Librarian Spies, Twitter Feuds (and other things I learned in grad school)

[starfishstar]

Hey hey, I live in Scotland now! Still haven't quite wrapped my head around that fact. And yes, that makes me something of a compatriot to J. K. Rowling, which feels rather sweet. :-)

Speaking of which, I really need everyone to know about the awesomeness that is The Twitter Feud Between the Libraries of Orkney and Shetland, and Also That Time J. K. Rowling Got Involved in It. (You can find tons of gleeful articles about this, for example here. Orkney and Shetland are both fairly remote Scottish island groups – Orkney just off the north coast, and Shetland much further out than that – and they're both small, population-wise, but it turns out they have amazing Twitter presences!)

Also, one of our professors (I'm doing a master's in library studies, did I mention that?) listed out a ton of places where graduates of this program now work as librarians, to give us an idea of all the possibilities beyond just public library/school library/academic library. His list included a bunch of acronym-heavy British public sector things, including...GCHQ. You know, the British intelligence agency. There are librarians working at the British intelligence agency.

Librarian spies!! I feel this needs to form the concept for an AU fic somewhere.

Comments

[nerakrose]

I hope you're enjoying Scotland!! I am not at all jealous :pp

Librarian spies! ♥ Reminds me of the invisible library series by Genevieve cogman, wherein the main character is a librarian spy ;) brilliant series btw, lots of fun. :D

[starfishstar]

Of *course* there's already a series about a library spy. ;-) Awesome!

I am enjoying Scotland! Still a bit inundated with all the processes of settling in, but I'm glad I'm here. :-)

[nerakrose]

it's very good! those spies don't work for intelligence organisations though...unless you count The Library as an intelligence organisation :'D

yay :D have you found a nice place to live?

[starfishstar]

Sounds like a fun series! (But perhaps there is still a niche for librarians who work for spies, as opposed to spies who work for a library.) ;-)

I'm living in university housing, since that was by far the simplest option when trying to arrange it all fast and from far away. I'd say I lucked out: my flatmates are nice, and fun, and not messy in the common spaces. :-)

[nerakrose]

Of course ;) one can't have too many library spies ;D

Ahh that's so nice to hear :D

[indybaggins]

LIBRARIAN SPIES! OMG, I approve so hard :D

And some day you should update with pics from your new life! I'm curious :)

[starfishstar]

Right?? Librarian spies!

Sure, I can do a Scotland post at some point! I have to say, it's reached the point where so few people I know are still on DW/LJ that I find I've gradually lost the impetus to do much updating here (as opposed to in more "real life" / less "fandom" spaces) – aside of course from the things that clearly belong here, like fic, or book posts. But I think you're actually the second person who's asked already, so yes, I should definitely write up a post & some pictures about Scotland. :-)