37 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 289 — 2016 Contemplating an active shooter incident is hard. Most of the training offered by our campuses focuses on individual safety (“run, hide, fight”), but those of us who work in libraries may face the need to help keep our students and other users safe. We think of ourselves as providing a community resource in the best of times, but we may be called upon to do that in the worst of times, too. It’s a daunting responsibility and one I hope most of us won’t have to bear! Endnote 1 UCLA Campus Safety Task Force, Report and Recommendations, October 2016, https://ucla.app.box.com/v/task-force-report. © 2016 Virginia Steel This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. To cite this article: Virginia Steel. “Thinking about the Unthinkable: A Personal Reflection on the June 1 Incident at UCLA and Library Responses and Roles in Active Shooter Situations.” Research Library Issues, no. 289 (2016): 28–37. http://publications.arl.org/rli289/.