Q & A with Childrenâs Librarian Julie Roach By Betsy Groban | Dec 11, 2020
Julie Roach has been the manager of youth services at the Cambridge Public Library in Massachusetts since 2005. She also reviews children’s books for the
Horn Book and teaches children’s literature at Simmons University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science. The Cambridge Public Library closed to the public on March 13, and Roach and her youth services team worked from home until June, when the library began its first phase of reopening with outdoor contactless pickup service. She spoke with
PW about what it’s been like to be a librarian during this difficult time.