The set of survey responses that rattled me most came in response to the question “If you are no longer a librarian/library worker, why did you leave?” As I was reading through the gathered answers on an Excel spreadsheet, I spotted two of the same responses and assumed someone had submitted their answers twice. When I looked closer, I realized that two librarians from entirely different systems—one in western New York, the other in rural Illinois—had answered the question with the exact same words, in the exact same order: “I felt unsupported, I felt burned out, I felt unsafe.”
