I wrote this for the Bloomsbury Academic blog: a love letter to academic libraries, about sneaking into the academy (through the side door marked 'journalism') to engage in the privilege of research there, resulting in (so far) three books on media and technology.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/discover/bloomsbury-academic/blog/featured/the-inadvertent-academic-a-love-letter-to-the-library/