Loyola Notre Dame Library  

 My "hero" librarian - Philip Fryer - works here and I was his assistant in Media Services from 2001-2003.  I actually worked at the LNDL in the 80s, too, at the Circulation (now Customer Services) desk as an evening supervisor. 

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

If you ever get to Pittsburgh, visit the Carnegie Library Main branch in Oakland just to look at the building and give great thanks to the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie for his generosity.  I worked here as a "Help Desk Clerk" in 2006-2007.  I then did my field placement for my MLIS in reference.  There are an amazing group of librarians who work there! 

Baltimore County Public Library - Essex Branch

My love of all things library happened at the Essex branch of the Baltimore County Public Library system.  In fact, when I was 15 years old, I became a "page." I shelved books and, if I was lucky, I sometimes worked at the Circulation desk and checked in books!

Johns Hopkins University-Milton S. Eisenhower Library

This is the library to hone your library skills! Johns Hopkins University (where I studied Creative Writing and Advanced Shakespeare) is one of the top research universities in the country and its library "is the university's principal research library and the largest of a network of libraries at Hopkins. A repository of over three million books and 17,000 journal subscriptions (over 2,200 online journals), it also employs the latest information technology to offer users immediate and orderly access to an ever-expanding array of resources, from ancient texts to the latest scientific reports." I was the Evening/Weekend Circulation Supervisor in Access Services and I worked with some highly intellectual - and exceptionally humorous - staff and student employees.