Re: [LM_NET] GEN: Reading on the Job

[R Schulte <netterscraps@GMAIL.COM>]

Here, here!  Well put!

-- 
Raynette Schulte
Young Adult Librarian
Watertown Regional Library
Watertown South Dakota
netterscraps@gmail.com


On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Billie Esser <billie.esser@gmail.com>wrote:

> Don't read on the job?  Ridiculous!  Telling a librarian not to read
> on the job is like telling a Chef not to cook or taste the food they
> prepare for customers each day.
>
> Billie Esser
> Librarian
> Jefferson West High School
> Meriden, KS
> billie.esser@gmail.com
>
> On 7/31/09, Megan Kurtz <mkurtz@donbosco.org> wrote:
> > I'm curious how many of you read on the job.  Before I got a library job,
> > reading at work was a guilty pleasure - something I snuck in here or
> there
> > when I could.  Now, though, I'm wondering if it acceptable to read books
> in
> > the collection or professional development books when I'm on the clock.
>  I'm
> > worried that if students and staff see me reading they will think I am
> > slacking off or don't have enough work to do.  So tell me - what do you
> do?
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Megan Kurtz
> > Library Media Specialist
> > Don Bosco Charter High School
> > Kansas City, MO
> > mkurtz@donbosco.org
> > 816-691-2900
> >
> > "Education breeds confidence.  Confidence breeds hope.  Hope breeds
> peace."
> > -- Confucius
> >
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