  Virtually every ``serious'' place where professional astronomy is done has a
librarian, even if shared with the physics or math department. Since its
creation in 1994 of {\it Departamento de Astronom\'{\i}a} (DA) of Universidad
de Guanajuato (UG) it was neither provided with a librarian, nor with proper
space for its holdings, nor with a budget allowing institutional journal
subscriptions. I describe my experience of now five years as ``amateur''
librarian, and present information on other small astronomy institutions in
Mexico in a similar situation.
