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Introduction This book relies on research and theory, but it was also written by three librarian practitioners who don’t talk about themselves as “the authors” and sometimes speak from their own experience. Here is a little bit about who we are. Amy loves her job as open education librarian for Oregon’s colleges and universities. By night she is a fiddler and square dance caller. Amy lives in Portland with her cat Wendell, who has made friends with the cat next door (“Friendell”). Silvia likes concrete examples that clarify conceptual ideas, young adult romances featuring women of color, and filling her Instagram with pictures of her photogenic dogs, Watson and Norbert. She lives in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. Lori is a fan of elaborately constructed sci-fi novels, visually compelling design (she makes our slides), and midday snacks. She bridges the divide in Team TC by being both a dog and a cat person. Lori is a member of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of Duck Valley. About This Book Librarians have been reinventing themselves for many years. Corinne Stocker Horton (1898) said that modern American librarians represented a departure from the collector or “jealous guardian” of the past. Instead, “there is a growing tendency to regard them as public educator and to demand in them technical knowledge and executive business ability, as well as general literary culture.” A decade later, Adelaide R. Hasse (1912) touted additional changes. Librarians were not clerks, retrieving and delivering books. “In these days the profession has grown much more complex,”