Years before he was a content manager at Google, Mark Sherbin landed a part-time gig at the UI archives, “fetching documents from the musty back room where the collections were stored in seemingly endless rows of numbered gray and tan cardboard boxes.”
Some days, he went a mile a minute, “enthralled while scanning some freakish picture collection from the 19th century or hustling around the stacks to sweat out last night’s booze.”
Others were spent “knee-deep in some long-dead scientist’s personal correspondence."
“I never won employee of the month, but I experienced a unique part of campus that inspired my healthy interest in history," he says.
