A new idea

So I’ve been thinking lately…one of the reasons, no probably the #1 reason I decided to go to library school is that I love books.  I love to read them, of course, but I really, really, really love how books feel in my hands.  I love how they look on the display tables at Borders.  I am 100% hooked on books.  And having a job that allowed me to look at them, select them, organize them and read them was really appealing to me.

Now that I am a librarian, have been for over three years, I’m beginning to think that librarianship should not have been the career I picked after teaching made me too tired to read ANYTHING after grading the essays of 7th graders.  Why not? you ask.

Because I don’t have time to read.  There are too many other tasks, projects, duties that need my attention.  My list of books I want to read and the pile of books I own and haven’t yet read both keep growing.

So I was thinking maybe a public library would be a better place for me…I love teaching, absolutely love it, and it would be hard to give up this job because I do love the teaching so much.  But, in a public library, could part of my job be reader advisory?  I’ve seen that in a lot of the job descriptions on the TCCL web site.  I’ve decided to try it.  My Blogger blog of the same name has been home only to images…photos I’ve taken and want to share.  I decided that this one would be more like a blog you’d see a librarian write.

I don’t get to read much, but when I do, I will share a little bit each day about what I’m reading – usually that’s a few pages here and there from the two or three books I’ve got going at one time.  Let’s see how it goes!