- Name, job title, and location: James Pape, Head of Access Services, 3rd Floor Lauinger Library & occasionally Blommer Library
- What do you do—in 10 words or less? I help manage the Service Desk where we help patrons.
- Where are you from? All around, but originally from Marietta, Ohio.
- Do you have any hobbies? It may not sound like a hobby, but I love coaching sports. I have been coaching football for the past 5 years and basketball for 3 years. This takes up most of my free time at this point.
- What are you reading/watching/playing/listening to/learning right now? I am playing/learning a lot about NBA 2k23 and Madden 23 with my children.
- What couldn't you live without? I could not live without hot sauce. I like to put a little bit of spice on everything I eat. I also make my own habanero pepper hot sauce that is a little bit sweet and spicy.
- How do you prepare for winter/what are your favorite winter activities? I don’t do much to prepare for winter. The extent of my preparation is to make sure I pull out the winter coat and put on more clothes. My favorite thing to do during the winter is sleigh riding with my family.
- What attracted you to a career in libraries? Helping people is what finally attracted me to having a career in libraries; however, anyone who knows me, knows that I never thought about working in a library for a career. In a weird set of circumstances during my undergrad studies I took a position as a student assistant at Cleveland State University Law School. While I was there I was offered a full-time position and the library director there kind of took me under his wing. He showed me what being a librarian was and how we excel in helping patrons.
- Is there anything from the past that you wish would come back into fashion? It may have never been in fashion, but I wear socks and sandals all the time. I wish it would become acceptable.
- If you didn’t work in your current field, what would you be doing? Working construction or in a factory somewhere, which is what I was doing before I went back to school to complete my undergrad degree when I was 25 years old.