Academic library director Joe Hardenbrook writes: “I come from a working-class family. As I was approaching the end of my MLIS program and job hunting, I was perplexed by this all-day academic librarian interview thing. I kept thinking: It takes the library all day to figure out if they want to hire someone? Then it was explained to me: The all-day interview is really just a series of shorter interviews with different groups of people, who often ask you the same question.”