Box of delight

Working from home and not having the option of in-person meetings and places to go puts enormous stress on most of us, including introverts. The lack of warning that shifted most of our work from an office to home is a shock and most unsettling. How do we all adjust?
Having worked from home as a free-lance librarian for most of my career, I’m sharing some tips that work for me.

In a 1995 interview with Linton Weeks of the Washington Post, [1]the Howard University librarian, collector, and self-described “bibliomaniac” Dorothy Porter (1905–95) reflected on the focus of her 43-year career: “The only rewarding thing for me is to bring to light information that no one knows. What’s the point of rehashing the same old thing?” For Porter, this mission involved not only collecting and preserving a wide range of materials related to the global Black experience, but also addressing how these works demanded new and specific qualitative and quantitative approaches in order to collect, assess, and catalog them.