Jerome Myers originally dreamt he would be a cultural anthropologist, but instead he ended up negotiating contracts for major publishers. When his librarian sister suggested that academic librarianship might be more satisfying, he signed up for Brooklyn Public Library's (BPL) librarian trainee program and enrolled in the library and information science (LIS) program at Pratt Institute. What Myers found lacking in both were chances to explore some basic anthropological questions: Who are librarians? How do they spend their work lives? What are the differences among them? This article analyzes Myers thoughts on these issues and describes his library career.