Re: Librarians and reading

[Gayle Hodur <ghodur@REDSHIFT.COM>]

>"Oh, I love my job, but I don't like to
>read!" People surrounding her looked at each other and one or two next
>to me looked at me to get my reaction. I didn't reveal my feelings
>there, but CAN a person be a good librarian and not like reading? I have
>turned that over and over in my mind. How do you sell something you
>don't enjoy?

It seems to me that it would depend on what she perceives her job to be.
For some of us (in schools) the selling of reading is important. For
others, who might be more in managerial positions, or in acquisitions or
reference, the job may actually be more focused on providing information to
others rather than attempting to affect their love of reading. There are a
lot of detail aspects of librarianship that I'm sure some people really
love that involve organizing, efficiency, and creating a productive tool
for information flow. I think, in a crazy kinda way, that one could be a
very good librarian without liking to read for one's own pleasure, but I
sure don't see how you could survive as a SCHOOL librarian without it.

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Gayle Hodur                             Snail Mail:
District Librarian                      Main Street Middle School
Soledad Unified School District         441 Main Street
(408) 678-3923                          Soledad, CA  93960
ghodur@redshift.com

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