Robert enjoys learning about and sharing the company of dogs. He is also fascinated by uncovering family secrets through genealogical research.
Robert Musco has recently retired from his position as school librarian at neighboring Amity Regional High School, and from his work as a medical interpreter at Yale-New Haven Health. Together with his companion Sonny the Yellow Lab, he is currently living in Gijón, on Spain’s Cantabrian coast, in the region of Asturias.
After graduating from Cornell University, he studied stage and costume design in New York University’s MFA program, afterwards working as a wardrobe supervisor in opera, on Broadway, and in television and film production. His first career change led him to Barcelona, where he taught business English and worked as a staff translator for a global consulting company. He later built and operated a cafe-bar in Barcelona’s then-burgeoning Raval district.
After returning to the States, he earned an MS in secondary education and ESL (Albright College) and taught high-school Spanish for ten years, before receiving an MLS (Southern Connecticut) and making the switch to librarianship.
He is enthusiastic about helping students navigate and make sense of the morass of information available today, empowering them to make the decisions that will make their lives happier and the world more liveable.