Episode Transcript: Aired July 14, 2026
Host Dr. Karlos L. Marshall, Dayton Metro Library
Guest: Lajmar Anderson from Sinclair Community College
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Good morning, library land. My name is Dr. Karlos L. Marshall, and I serve as the Director of Community Impact and Innovation here at the Dayton Metro Library.
Today marks the start of season two of "Cataloging the Culture," where we bring Black men that are working in and across and with libraries across the country to share their unique journeys and experiences to help us improve and further our library profession.
Today, I'm joined by Lajmar Anderson from Sinclair Community College. How are you doing this morning?
Lajmar Anderson: I'm doing great. Thank you.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Good. Thank you so much for being here. Lamar Anderson is currently a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Sinclair Community College, where he serves as the liaison for the Division of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
In this role, he works to educate students on the nuances of information literacy and research. Lamar has worked professionally in academic libraries for 20 years, and as an academic librarian for the past 16 years.
Lamar is a graduate of Indiana University, where he earned his Bachelor's of Science in Psychology and Master's of Library Science, and is currently working on a Master of Arts in Political Science. So let's kick this off and start to catalog your journey.
Just tell us a little bit about your upbringing into childhood, into adulthood. You talked about just growing up in Richmond, Indiana. So how was that experience for you?
Lajmar Anderson: So growing up in Richmond in the '80s, I'm an elder millennial. I'm the Xennial generation or geriatric millennials, as some of the younger millennials like to call us. It was interesting. So growing up at that time, Black, biracial, in an intermixed household, very different, I think, than now. There weren't a whole lot of examples of how that worked. My mom's stepfather was Black. My father is Black. We just had a very intermingled household,
and at that time, it was very different, but there's also still some similarities to today.
So I was very strange as a child. I'd like to say I'm probably still very strange as an adult.
I was very immersed into reading. I loved reading, and one of the number one questions people always ask me when they find out I'm a librarian is, "Oh, you must love to read," which is true, but that doesn't really have a lot to do with my job currently. So anyways, long story short, heavy into books, heavy into reading. And I would frequent my public library quite a lot. I spent a lot of time there. At that period, it was not unusual. I was six, seven, walking to the public library by myself. I don't think that would be as common today as it was in the '80s.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Absolutely.
Lajmar Anderson: But the librarians all knew me, so I would spend a lot of time at the library. And a lot of my formative years were there. There was a period, so my stepfather was in the Air Force, and so we lived in California for a year and Arizona for three years.
So I did leave the area for a little bit, and then came back to Richmond. So I was gone through all of those awkward middle school years and then came back for high school. So that was an interesting experience. But through that traveling, libraries were kind of my go-to for security, for being seen, for finding out about the world and finding out about myself because they were kind of a staple everywhere I went.
It was always really kind of interesting because it was very rare that I saw any librarians of color. Regardless of where I was.
I did not officially meet a Black librarian until I, in high school, started working at my public library. So actually, kind of funny too, is I've really kind of always been in libraries.
So I started at 14 working at the public library in town. There was a Black librarian who worked in cataloging, and it's funny when we were talking about doing this interview of going back in my brain, just trying to remember things, and some things are always really clear and others aren't. But she was the first time I'd encountered a Black librarian, but she was working behind the scenes, so we didn't really interact a whole lot, but it was just kind of like this, "Okay, so there's folks here. This is actually a viable path, potentially," was kind of planted in my mind.
And I worked in that public library up until it was either, I can't remember if it was my first or second year of undergrad, and then I kind of made forays into the world of retail. But then I ended up, as I was finishing up undergrad, back in an academic library. So I started working as the Access Services evening supervisor at Ball State University, and so that was a staff position.
Eventually, I moved up as I started my MLS program into, be a supervisor of their Archives and Special Collections.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Absolutely. Thank you so much for sharing that. And representation absolutely matters sometimes. Seeing is believing.
Lajmar Anderson: Yeah.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Talk to us more about you started working at your local public library in high school. How did that process work? Did a librarian always see you there and offered you a job, or did you just inquire about a potential opening?
Lajmar Anderson: So they had student positions open, and sometimes libraries still do. I don't know how popular of a job it is these days, but they had student positions open at that time.
There were some that were for shelving up in the circulation area.I actually ended up being in the audiovisual department, and so I was doing shelving and things at first. As I got to my final year of high school, I actually graduated early and so I was able to take on an adult part-time position there, and so I started doing that.
So I was working with more circulation-related duties and things like that as well. In that role, I was mostly supervised by staff, but there was a librarian that was over the AV department at that time.
So, there was constant interaction with the librarians, but it was not as close as it would be when I moved into my later roles at academic libraries.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: For sure. And when you were the nighttime supervisor, that was during your undergraduate?
Lajmar Anderson: That was the last two years of my undergrad. So I'd started that job, I had moved to Muncie. The person I was seeing at the time had lived there, was working there too, so relocated, for romantic reasons, as we sometimes do. And so I started there and I think that was really when it kind of clicked in my head, because again, libraries had stayed with me through all of this, but it really kind of clicked in my head academic librarianship was something I was really strongly interested in. So in there I did have a couple solid librarians who were mentors.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Okay. Talk to us more about the solid librarian mentors that you had in that process, and then how that influenced you to then pursue your MLS degree.
Lajmar Anderson: So I'd finished my bachelor's in psychology, and I've always been really kind of interested in people and how they think, but also really how we consume information, and that's just kind of grown. I've really, it's this kind of fixation on how we consume information, what we do with it, how we're processing it, what we're thinking about it. So at one point, I thought I really wanted to go down this kind of psychology rabbit hole. But as I was working in libraries, as I was observing the librarians doing the more academic level research, the type of support that they were providing,seeing that they weren't just like, "Here's this book." They were actually teaching as they were doing. A friend of mine who I consider a friend now, who was a mentor then, she had completed her MLS, and as she was completing it, she saw my work, she saw what I was doing, and she just kept encouraging me. She's like, "You should pursue this program." She's like, "You would be great at it."
She's like, "We need more men in this program." She's like, "We need more people of color in this program." She's like, "You need to pursue this." And I had wrapped up my undergrad, and undergrad took me, I put it out there, undergrad took me a bit. I consistently went. But sometimes I only took two classes at a time. I went to a commuter school. And so, having her encouragement was really helpful because, at that point in time, I had achieved the highest level of education on both sides of my family.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Mm-hmm.
Lajmar Anderson: And I think still currently I do have the highest level. Don't quote me on that.
If family sees this, don't get mad at me if I'm wrong, just correct me, but I'm pretty sure I do.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Right. Absolutely.
And I want to continue to kind of turn the page as you really immersed yourself within the profession very early, which I've found just being in the profession now five years, having worked in both non-profit sector, worked at UD for almost a decade before coming to the Dayton Metro Library, but I think for most people even that hold the MILS degree, that they kind of stumble upon the profession.
Lajmar Anderson: Yeah.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Whether they were a teacher, went in a classroom, didn't like it or something, but you are kind of rare in that sense that you were pretty immersed in it, even as a teenager. So, talk to us more about some of the other jobs that you had leading up to landing yourself here at Sinclair Community College.
Lajmar Anderson: So, as I mentioned, I had staff positions at Ball State libraries. So I did the Access Services Evening Coordinator position for, I think it was two years. And then I shifted as I started my MLS program, there was a position that was open in the Archives and Special Collections, and I always had kind of an interest in history. I would sometimes go down these kind of rabbit holes with very niche subjects.
So, I saw the position, it was an upgrade as far as jobs went. I had just finished my bachelor's. So I applied, and I ended up getting the position, and so I spent two years in the archives. Well, actually, it ended up being four years in the archives, so let me back up with that. So the two years were while I was completing my MLS, and then there were the two years of job hunting after the MLS for a professional position, which is a whole other story.
So I worked in the archives, and it was actually a really good role for me as I was getting myself prepared to be an academic librarian, because we dealt primarily with graduate students. We had professors coming in. We had researchers who were researching books. Folks with their PhDs who would come in and research because there's a really rich history in Muncie, Indiana.
A lot of history around, there was a lot of resistance to the Klan in Muncie, Indiana. There was the Muncie Post-Democrat, which was run by one of the mayors at the time, which would call out Klan members that were in politics. And so we had a lot of the archives and things related to that. We had some rare books collections, so we'd get a lot of researchers coming in researching those types of things.
Part of that was I also got to teach graduate students about primary sources research. So I was doing basically info lit sessions while I was getting my degree, before I had my degree, which is typically stuff you don't do until you're actually out as a professional librarian.
So it's kind of getting on-the-job training, which I found kind of made me unique amongst my peers, because like you were saying, a lot of the people I was in school with at the time, they were people who had either they were former teachers or they were people who, again, had stumbled into the profession.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Mm-hmm.
Lajmar Anderson: There weren't very many of us who had actually been engaged in libraries at the time. There were a handful that were working in public libraries and decided they wanted to pursue their MLS, but again, we were a rarity. So I did that, and then I finished my MLS in 2010, and after that, it was the interesting realm of navigating getting a professional position.
I had all this experience and everything, but the recession had started happening around 2008,
and all these people were supposed to retire, but people didn't retire.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Right.
Lajmar Anderson: So there were some interesting challenges. I still have some peers who never entered the profession after, so...
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Yeah, absolutely.
And as you talk about your experience in Muncie, and serving as a resourcing guide for people conducting graduate level research, as well as professional researchers with a unique history in the rare books collections and the archives and special collections, talk to us more about just how you see the functionality of a college library - Mm-hmm ... at Sinclair, and how that's both similar and/or different to the functions and missions of a library at a four-year university.
Lajmar Anderson: Really across academic libraries, there is a similarity. Now, I would say where the difference is, is that when you're not at a university that has graduate level courses, you're not getting the folks coming in that are working on their dissertation. So you're not getting that level of research. Really what you're focusing on are those kind of core skills, which is also what you'll get when you are getting...
So one of the things that happens in academic libraries is that typically your basic English class will come in for some type of library session. Generally, that's just covering, here's some basic information literacy, here's some basic digital fluency. Here's how we evaluate information. Here's how we think critically about the information we're consuming, those types of things. So that's kind of standard across the board. Once you start to work with graduate students, which in a later job, so I did spend two years at the for-profit Walden, where I was primarily working with doctoral students, very different.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Mm-hmm.
Lajmar Anderson: Because with them, you're working a lot with helping them navigate their dissertations. How to set up the research for that, how to set up alerts for new research that's coming out, how to figure out, well, how many times has this been cited?
What are some of the more complicated forms of searching that you're not necessarily going to do with somebody who's just in the undergraduate sphere? So, there are differences, there are similarities, because even at those advanced levels, you often have to revisit some of those core skills.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Absolutely.
Lajmar Anderson: So yeah. So I would just say one is providing the foundation, the other one is when you start to get into, here's the more advanced nuances of this realm of information literacy and research.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Absolutely. Tell us more about your specific role, being a reference and instruction librarian. Mm-hmm. And specifically how you support the academic division that you're within. I know that you also mentioned that you teach classes and everything like that. So what is kind of your day-to-day or your weekly schedule look like?
Lajmar Anderson: So the classes are typically what we would call one shots. So a class will schedule with us, and they will come in and we will have a session to teach the students how to do research and how to think about research. Other times, what you'll get is a class that will meet with you multiple times. So I have a couple that will meet with me two or three times, and sometimes within those classes there'll be different nuances. So maybe one session is here's how you do your basic research. Here's how you build a search. Here's how you do some Boolean operators. The next class may be all about evaluating information, and the evaluating information has become very popular the past few years. How to look at information, critically evaluate it, determine, "Is what I'm looking at true?" Which becomes harder and harder every day for folks.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Absolutely.
Lajmar Anderson: So the day-to-day can vary, and this is really at academic libraries across the board. Typically, you're going to find that the fall semesters are really, really busy.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Mm-hmm.
Lajmar Anderson: Spring semesters are busy, but it's a different kind of busy because by then people have kind of acclimated if you get new students and things like that, but it's still a pretty steady time. Typically, across the board at academic libraries, summers are quiet.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Yeah.
Lajmar Anderson: But day to day it just kind of varies. Like in my current position, I'm not just in the library, and I think that's kind of one of the things that people often think about librarians. So I mentioned earlier that people are always like, "So you're a librarian, you like to read." And I do love to read. I love reading, and I think that more people should read for leisure more. I think that there's a lot of value in that. But most of my job, I don't do a whole lot with books.
I do do collection development, so I will get resources to support my programs. And that's pretty standard when you have a librarian who's a liaison for particular departments or programs, is they are doing the collection development for that. And that tends to mean that we are evaluating databases, journals, and books, and other media to support those programs. So that's generally when the books start to kind of come into play, unless I'm doing some kind of one-off, like we're leading a book discussion or something, which I'll sometimes do just for fun.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Yeah.
Lajmar Anderson: But in general, I'm sometimes going to other departments to support them. Sometimes I will pop up and be in spaces just so that the students can find me,so that I'm there for the students, so they don't have to come seek me out.
Because that's one of the things that we noticed several years ago, is that there are certain times students will not physically come to the library, but they will gather in other places. And so I'll pop up in places like that. Some of my colleagues will too, just to be there. So the day-to-day can vary a lot. Sometimes there's reference hours, sometimes there's instruction sessions, so it's never the same every day.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Absolutely. Appreciate that context because I think there are a lot of misconceptions about what librarians do, and that's part of dispelling those myths and misnomers to educate people and to open the doors for new pipelines and pathways.
And also as an educational point for myself as well as our listeners, does your specific library system have a tenure track process? Because I know that that is rare. But I know that the University of Dayton has it. So does your system have that?
Lajmar Anderson: My current one doesn't. And also just to give some context for that, too,
because like you mentioned, it is rare.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: So you can be a tenured librarian in certain places.
Lajmar Anderson: There have also been roles I've had where I've been considered faculty, but we're not teaching faculty. So it gives you the connections you need to be able to attend faculty meetings and things, which is really important when you're a liaison.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Mm-hmm.
Lajmar Anderson: Other places, librarians are considered these kind of not faculty, not staff.
So this is just kind of one of the interesting things about when you're in academic librarianship,
is there's not necessarily consistency in what you're considered where you go. So my current role, we're considered professional staff. Other places, you're just like... So when I was at Ball State, the librarians were considered professionals, which was different from the staff.
So like, it's just kind of all across the board. And that's something really important to pay attention to, though. Because if you're applying for a tenure track position, you need to know everything that that entails. Like, so are you going to be expected to publish? And if you are expected to publish, are you okay with that?
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Absolutely.
Lajmar Anderson: In other positions that are considered faculty, so like when I was a faculty,
I worked at Earlham for a year, we were considered non-teaching faculty. We were not required to publish. It was not a tenured faculty position, so.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Definitely appreciate that context, which is important as prospective MILs students and people that want to get to the profession are watching these various interviews and episodes.
I've had a couple of people that are in academic libraries, obviously people in public libraries. So just also understanding that even if you choose this path, that there's still a multitude of entry points into the profession is really critical as well. Tell us what's the most fulfilling aspect of your role, and also conversely, what's some of the most challenging aspects of it?
Lajmar Anderson: It's actually probably the same thing, but like the flip side of each. So like for me, I think when it really clicked, because so one of the things is, and I think we're all guilty of this now, is we are constantly consuming information.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Mm-hmm.
Lajmar Anderson: We're not always thinking about it. And I, just like everybody else, I have my moments where I just want to zone out and stare at the screen and just dissociate. I think we all have those moments. But you can't do it all the time. And when I do my sessions on disinformation, and we talk about critical thinking and evaluating information, one of the things we talk about is this idea of constantly consuming information and regurgitating it, but not actually exploring it.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Yeah.
Lajmar Anderson: Not looking at the nuances, not comprehending. And I mean, as we know, we are currently experiencing a literacy crisis, which also includes comprehension. It's not just about can you read a book, it's about comprehending information that you're taking in. So when we're having those conversations, I'm having those conversations, and the students start to be able to express back to me ways that they are examining what they're consuming and not just taking it in, that they're actually thinking deeply about it.
And sometimes those clicks come after. Like sometimes I will have a student say something to me after a session, or their professor will be like, "Look, they really were moved by this," and whatnot. When that happens, and they actually are seeming to get it, or they have those kind of epiphanies in the sessions, or even I hear about it afterwards in retrospect from a faculty member, that to me is telling me I'm doing my job. Because at the end of the day, what I want is to help make people more conscious consumers of the information they're getting.
Like, yes, I can teach you how to find information. That's no problem. And that's a role that I think is important, too. But I think right now it's that critical moment of, but are you a conscious consumer of what it is you're taking in? And for me, that's kind of - as a librarian, as people who our expertise is information, and I think that kind of gets lost sometimes, is like we are information experts. Like that is where our areas are. I think it's a critical role for us right now.
And so when I get that That's when I feel the most fulfilled these days. Now, that could shift.
Yeah. It could be something different in 10 years as the world shifts, and if you'd asked me a decade ago what was most fulfilling, it might've been a different answer.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Mm-hmm.
Lajmar Anderson: That's kind of the paradox of this. The flip side of that, the most challenging is sometimes the same thing, is trying to get across this understanding that there are a lot of charismatic people online that appear to be experts, that might present themselves as experts,
that doesn't necessarily mean they're giving you solid, credible information.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Mm-hmm.
Lajmar Anderson: And just because you like what somebody says, and just because they kind of fall into the silo of what you already believe, doesn't mean you should always believe them. And sometimes we kind of get stuck in that ,and so when I see folks that get stuck in that pattern, figuring out how to help them get out of that is probably one of the more challenging things.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Absolutely.
Lajmar Anderson: And that's kind of the other thing, too, is that we know, just kind of thinking back, circling back to this representation in libraries, too, because the thing I didn't mention, off topic, is after that first encounter when I was a teenager, I didn't meet another Black librarian again until I started at Sinclair.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Mm.
Lajmar Anderson: So Yeah ... wide spectrum, so. But anyways- ... I also think particularly how the research shows that disinformation disproportionately impacts Black communities.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Mm-hmm.
Lajmar Anderson: And so that is something that's always kind of at the forefront of my mind as I'm working with students, is how these things are really impacting our communities, too, very strongly. So yeah.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Absolutely. Thank you so much for that. A wealth of information.
I want to kind of dig a little bit deeper on a multitude of things that you just highlighted there. Just the lack of exposure in terms of encountering Black librarians within the profession. What we know is that Black men represent less than 1% of MILs degree holders. But you also talked about your upbringing and coming from a multiracial- family. Public libraries, academic libraries, like every other sector, have challenges with supporting both recruiting and retaining and promoting diverse staff members, and so you talk about being a conscious consumer of information and looking at the nuances - So talk to us a little bit about just kind of how you navigate this professional arena with such a unique intersectional identity of being biracial, also identifying as a Black man, coming through the MILs ranks, but also identifying as being queer.
So you're at the intersections of multiple marginalized identities. So how are you able to navigate that professional space, and then how does it shape the way that you show up and support others?
Lajmar Anderson: I have always found, I think part of what drew me to libraries is that they are one of the most welcoming spaces I've ever been in. And with all of those different intersections, not only were the librarians always helpful, and at that point I was a really, really early reader, like I'd mentioned, I was reading well ahead of where I should've been, like I got bored with the children's section, and I would start to kind of venture out and find things.
But they helped me educate myself, and at that point in time, I actually kind of envy the folks coming up now because they have access to information, and even though there are still problems with representation, they still have so much more than we had in the '80s and the '90s.
So much more visibility, which is one of the blessings of social media, I will say. Like for all the problems, there are blessings that are there. But all of those different intersections, I think that that is part of, with the whole information, is what kept me attached to libraries, is they are welcoming, regardless of who you are.
And even with academic libraries, I think sometimes people think they're these kind of closed-off spaces for an elite few. But typically what a lot of people don't know is a lot of your academic libraries have pathways for community members to come into. So they have spaces for community members to come in and use their computers, or to check out their materials, and things like that.
So even academic libraries, I'm sure there are some exceptions, but most of your state academic libraries are going to have some accessibility for the public.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Mm-hmm.
Lajmar Anderson: So seeing spaces that are so accessible to so many different groups of people, so welcoming, so eager to help you with the research, because that's one of the other things, too, I think a lot of people do not realize, is that a librarian's role is not to judge what it is you're interested in.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Mm-hmm.
Lajmar Anderson: Now, in the academic setting, if you are doing a research paper, like I tell my students, "I'm not going to judge your topic, but I am going to tell you by academic standards, is this something that would be considered credible? Now, whether you choose to use it or not is totally up to you."
And so typically the limitations are going to be around like well, what are your requirements for your class? But in general, we're not judging what you're researching. We're not judging your personal interests. We are there to support you in getting good, solid information on whatever it is that you want.
So I think as I just kind of live my life with all of these kind of different dynamics of who I am, libraries have always been really supportive of that for me. They've been kind of places of refuge, and away from sometimes the crazy that can be in the world.
I feel like I'm missing a part of your question.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: For sure. Yeah. If you could also just talk about, for our library leaders that are watching this, you talked about libraries being a place of both welcome and refuge.
What specific strategies, programs, or policies makes libraries welcoming places, and what should library leaders be trying to implement to continue to improve culture and climate, as well as to diversify the profession and make sure that we can reach the patrons that we're here to serve?
Lajmar Anderson: Really, for me, I think it's remembering that you are part of a bigger community. Whether you're part of an academic institution, whether you're a public library or whatnot. We sometimes use the word community, but I think sometimes we forget that is the people right outside of our doors.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Mm.
Lajmar Anderson: And I think getting those connections, getting the people in. So one of the things I think about a lot sometimes, too, think about family members and things like that is nobody ever deterred me from reading. They were always really excited I was reading. But one of the things I notice is other Black boys around me, I didn't hear a lot of encouragement, "Go to your library." "Go read." And when I would go to the library at that time, I also didn't see a whole lot of people of color in the spaces with me. Every now and then, I would see a family, but I don't feel like it's a space that we are actively encouraged to be at a lot.
Now, that dynamic may have shifted, but at least when I was coming up, it wasn't really something that was actively pushed a whole lot. And so I think making sure that we're making sure that everyone in our communities know, "You are welcome. You should come use this space. We have really, really amazing resources for you."
But beyond the resources, I think one of the things we have to make people aware of, because I think this kind of gets lost sometimes, too, is I think we've kind of moved into this thing where we kind of focus a lot on the resources, and we forget about the people.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Mm-hmm.
Lajmar Anderson: And I know for me, yes, I remember my favorite book in a certain section or whatnot, but it was the librarians that made me keep going back.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Yeah.
Lajmar Anderson: And so I think making sure that people understand there are people here who will uplift you and who will help you educate yourself and who will answer these questions for you. Particularly right now, when we're just kind of, like I said, we're flooded with information all the time, and we don't always know how to determine facts from fiction.
Making sure our community knows we're here to support them, I think is a big thing.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Absolutely, truly appreciate that. Yeah.
Is there anything else that you would like to add that you haven't been able to speak on yet?
Lajmar Anderson: I think that if you are passionate about information, if you are passionate about supporting your community, this is a profession that we need more representation at. It is one that I don't think we're often encouraged. Other than when I was working in the library, if I hadn't been working in the library, I don't know if anybody would've encouraged me, "Go be a librarian." It's just not a pathway that is really thought about like that.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Mm-hmm.
Lajmar Anderson: Particularly for men, and particularly for Black men.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Yeah. Absolutely.
Lajmar Anderson: It's not something they think about us doing.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Mm-hmm.
Lajmar Anderson: Which is why I'm so excited you've been doing this series is because I do think we need more visibility. The fact that I went 40-something years, and in 40-something years, there was two Black librarians I met ever, as much as I go to libraries is crazy.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Yeah.
Lajmar Anderson: So Right. It's just kind of... And until I moved here. Yeah, it's just kind of... Yeah.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Absolutely. Well, how can people continue to follow your work as well as connect with you?
Lajmar Anderson: I'm on LinkedIn. Yeah. Yes, I'm on LinkedIn as Lajmar Anderson, so yeah.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Absolutely. We'll definitely have your information on here. Thank you so much for joining-
Lajmar Anderson: Thank you
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: ... this morning. Really appreciate it.
Lajmar Anderson: It's been a pleasure. Thank you so much for having me.
Dr. Karlos L. Marshall: Absolutely.
Thank you all so much for tuning in and listening in for another episode of "Cataloging a Culture," where we share one story, one page at a time, featuring Black men in libraries working across the country. Again, I'm your host, Dr. Karlos L. Marshall. Until next time, thanks for listening.