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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
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| Language: | en |
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2005
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ711465 |
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- An Officer and a Librarian: Tom Rink--Tulsa Police Department Special Libraries Librarians Police Library Development Library Associations Biographies Tom Rink may be the only librarian who is also a police officer. After years of the Tulsa police force, he was ready for a change. When a career exploration course showed he was ideally suited to be a librarian, he was amused. The son of two librarians, he had never even considered it. He did enjoy researching, writing, and exploring all kinds of knowledge, though, so he got his MLIS degree while continuing as a police officer. That's when his boss asked him to start a library for the police force. There was no budget for a librarian or for a library. So formally, Rink became a policy writer, responsible for grant-writing and researching. Informally, he was building a collection. This article summarizes the achievements of Tom Rink, a librarian and a police officer of the Tulsa Police Department.