Re: [LM_NET] LIbrarian reading in the library

[Thomas Kaun <tomkaun@GMAIL.COM>]

My message to Tere got a weird reply so I'll reply to the whole group.
I don't really have the time to read during the school day. I do read
the newspaper at lunch if I'm by myself (which doesn't happen often--I
eat in the library's back room). It's not so much about feeling guilty
but just other priorities.
I do have one memory, however, from childhood which provides a caution
to reading. When I was a kid I found it very intimidating to go up to
the public librarian and interrupt her if she was reading. I take the
attitude that the patron is almost always my priority and try to stay
alert if someone approaches me. I know most of us probably do that as
well but I'm particularly sensitive to it because of my earlier
experience.
Tom Kaun

On Nov 9, 2007 8:12 AM, Tere Hager <thager@brentwoodchristian.org> wrote:
>
>
> 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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