Alma-Tadema, L. T. (1876). World of dreams [Painting]. Private collection. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laura_Theresa_Alma-Tadema_-World_of_dreams(1876).jpg

My dad would often tell me: “You don’t need to know everything, you just need to know where to find it.” That may be where the seed of being a librarian took root. 

Or maybe it was from the many, many times my mother and I rode the #72 bus to the Central Library in downtown Seattle when I had a report due for school. The one-floor Greenlake Branch would simply not do.  I may have been the only 5th grader to have a bibliography citing microfiche copies of newspapers in my report on totem poles.

Those early years of appreciating graceful ways to store and access information, as well as a love of reading, brought me to ODU to pursue a Masters in Libary and Information Studies. This page will track my progress as I learn something new. Wish me luck!

You don’t need to know everything, you just need to know where to find it.

-Brian Bergin, my dad (who just may have taken it from someone, and made it his own)

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