I almost never read in the library. If I do, it's book reviews, and I
make sure to read w/a pen and highlighter in hand so people can tell
that I'm "working."
As much as I would love to read at work, I think the reaction you got is
very typical, and I don't want to send the message that I don't have
anything else to do, which is how it's usually interpreted. I've heard
it too many times, "I wish I had a job where I could read all day!"
My main concern is that faculty, administration and students will come
to feel that I'm dispensable if I read all day - why would they pay me
to sit and read? (I can think of reasons, but I'm not sure they'd buy
them.) I read at home - I say that's my "homework" - other teachers
grade papers; I read.
Anita
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From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Tere Hager
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 10:12 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: LIbrarian reading in the library
Just curious - how many of you actually READ, during the day, in the
library?
This is my first year in the library and I never have time to read while
at
school. I TRY to read a book every evening. Well, last night I started
Sid
Fleischman's The Entertainer and the Dybbuk but didn't finish it. I was
dying to now how it ended. It was a quiet period so I decided to finish
it
up before I processed it. (we're talking 20 pages here.)
Well you would have thought, I was lying down taking a nap. Everybody
that
walked by my door (my desk is right by the door ) made a comment. "I'm
going
to give you a job." "If you've got time to read, I've got something for
you
to do." Etc. Next time, I'm going to go hide behind the stacks to read!
I just find it interesting that people are surprised to see a librarian
reading. I guess it just goes along with the fact that many people
really
just have no idea what it is that we do all day.
Tere Hager
Secondary Librarian
Brentwood Christian School
11908 N. Lamar Blvd.
Austin, Tx 78753
512-835-5983 X 27
thager@brentwoodchristian.org
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