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"Across the hall from the Conde Nast cafeteria is the company\u2019s in-house library. This may sound weird, but the library has quickly become one of the highlights of my internship! All Conde Nast employees...\n\n[\n\n](http://blog.teenvogue.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/07/09/img_0589.jpg) Across the hall from the Conde Nast cafeteria is the company\u2019s in-house library. This may sound weird, but the library has quickly become one of the highlights of my internship!  All Conde Nast employees (and interns) are given library accounts. A library account is like an unlimited gift certificate to the wonderful world of back issues. The shelves are stocked with bound editions of all Conde Nast titles dating back to the turn of the 20th century. The back room contains newspapers, foreign magazines, and out of print editions. My favorites? Spy from 1987/1988, the Jurgen Teller photography books, and paging through Tattler from the late 80s.\n\nStan Friedman, senior librarian, is one of the people that help magazine staffers navigate the library and conduct research. I recently sat down with him and picked his brain.\n\nWhat are your responsibilities as senior librarian at Conde Nast?  I do online research for both the editorial and business side of all the various Conde Nast titles. I\u2019ve done roughly 13,000 searches since I began work here.\n\nWhat\u2019s the best part of your job? Being next door to the Gourmet test kitchen is pretty nice, but really the diversity of the research that we perform, everything from fashion to politics to technology, helps to keep the job fresh.\n\nHave there ever been any requests for really odd things? On a daily basis. Fergie\u2019s favorite food. Medical studies involving nuns. Celebrity tattoos. You name it.\n\nWhat back issues do you like to read? I like to browse the many Conde Nast mags that go back to the mid and early 1900\u2019s and are full of great photography and literature.\n\nWhat are you reading this summer? I just finished Suite Francais, by Irene Nemirovsky, an amazing WWII novel that had been sitting in Nemirovsky\u2019s daughter\u2019s suitcase for 60 years before it was discovered.\n\nIs there any advice you would give someone who\u2019s interested in becoming a librarian? A lot of library students want to focus on technology, but the technology changes every five years. I always advise students to learn as much information theory as they can stomach. Understanding how and why people ask questions is an incredibly helpful skill.\n\n**\n\n**"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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