I LOVE this attitude - "the rest of the work can wait" - even if I feel guilty
embracing it myself. Maybe it's because I enjoy reading so much that it doesn't
feel like work to me, so I feel guilty doing it at work.
I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised to hear so many librarians do try to make
time to read at work. Maybe I'll rethink my "reading at home" policy!
Anita
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From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Dr. Allan O'Grady Cuseo
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 12:40 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: LIbrarian reading in the library
I guess I am the oddball here (what a surprise). I don't give a hoot
what people think of me or what I am doing. When I have received a
remark about "wouldn't it be nice if....?" I have responded. "Yes it is
very nice." If I am feeling a little nasty or don't like the tone of
the remark, I have responded "I would be more than happy to get you
some information about a library school if you are interested."It
has been years since I have heard such a remark. Usually, I hear -
"what are you reading?" Then I can share that book with the person.I
am a being - not a doing. Whatever I work on during the day, I am being
- I am being a teacher, a librarian, a student, a seeker, etc. I can
not worry about someone's perception of the job I am doing. I am a
superb librarian and that is my approach to life.AllanDr. Allan O'Grady Cuseo,
MGCDirector of Library ServicesBishop Kearney High School | A Golisano Education
Partner125 Kings Highway SouthRochester, New York 14617585.342.4000
x231585.342.4694 (fax)www.bkhs.orgCollege Prep. Plus.-----Original
Message-----From: "Dr. Allan O'Grady Cuseo" [acuseo@BKHS.ORG]Date: 11/09/2007 01:08
PMTo: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDUSubject: Re: [LM_NET] LIbrarian reading in the
libraryI try to read 1-2 hrs a day in the library... I begin with the Bible about 7
AM -- then switch to whatever YA book I am reading for YALSA/PPYA later.. then of
course the newspaper also. I can't encourage reading if I am never seen reading.
The rest of the work can just wait. Reading is my first priority and what isn't
done just isn't done. So be it.
Allan
Dr. Allan O'Grady Cuseo, MGC
Director of Library Services
Bishop Kearney High School | A Golisano Education Partner
125 Kings Highway South
Rochester, New York 14617
585.342.4000 x231
585.342.4694 (fax)
www.bkhs.org
College Prep. Plus.
-----Original Message-----
From: "Tere Hager" [thager@BRENTWOODCHRISTIAN.ORG]
Date: 11/09/2007 11:12 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] 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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