Librarian and Poet Sharon Black Looks Back on Her Career at Penn
13 Jan 2021
In 1980, Sharon Black was working towards her Master’s in Library and Information Science at Drexel University while dating a “wild-haired” drama graduate student at Temple. “We both loved theater,” she recalls — so when she saw a position for a part-time desk clerk at the Annenberg Library, she applied.
“I thought, ‘What would be cooler than a job in a theater library?’” Black presumed she’d be interviewing at the Annenberg Performing Arts Center, when in fact the position was with the Annenberg School for Communication.