Joys of expat life

I’m back in the United States right now, enjoying six weeks of paid vacation. This is one of the great benefits of working overseas: a long annual leave, with paid airfare back to your country of citizenship. 
What I didn’t anticipate was how little access I’d have to the internet. And, therefore, what a terrible time [...]

Welcome to the Chatty Librarian!

This blog is dedicated to the discussion of public services within academic librarianship. I’m Joan, the blog creator and administrator, an Instruction and Reference Librarian at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. 
Working in Egypt is great–I’ll talk about that more in future posts–but I am missing the conversations I had with classmates in library school, [...]