THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LIBRARIANSHIP

When the editors began soliciting contributions from colleagues for this volume, the initial reactions tended to fall into two categories—one small, the other much broader. Some librarians questioned the whole notion of “the psychology of librarianship”; what, they wondered, could psychology have to do with a field as notoriously exacting as ours? But the most frequent reaction, by far, was a rueful remark about the speaker’s colleagues: “You could devote the whole book to the people I work with!” was a typical response.