It’s a good question. If you work as a librarian at a public city library, you may qualify for public sector forgiveness, I don’t really know the answer. But continuous, persistent employment is one of the larger issues.

If it were up to me to fix, I would make library science a bachelors degree career and a track at more public 4-year universities. My hope is that more people would enter the field and want to serve the communities they came from in public and school libraries.

Libraries have the potential to hold a lot of power and help a lot of people, and are socialist institutions in their very nature. A library has so much more potential than just a repository for books you can borrow. This is what drew me to the field. I wish more people appreciated libraries and that collectively we invested more in them.