This is What a Librarian Looks Like

Libraries are still important! Yes, I'm biased... but I'm also right.

Photographer Kyle Cassidy offers an important and unfortunately timely look at the real librarians and what libraries actually do today (hint: we’re way more than just books). His portraits show us in all shades and styles, tattoos, and hair colors. And the interspersing essays about various collections and from authors and entertainers including Neil Gaiman, Jeff Vandermeer, Amanda Palmer, and George R. R. Martin, John Scalzi, Cory Doctorow, Jude Deveraux, Peter Sagal, (and more)—offer a compelling argument for the necessity of libraries and all they offer to their communities.

Note: I was a donor to the "Alexandria's Still Burning" Kickstarter Campaign and I am a totally biased public librarian.