Re: [LM_NET] TARGET: We happy few...

[Marilyn Kulkarni <mask1@COMCAST.NET>]

I love my work most days.  I agree that the politics of it all can make the job 
difficult.  I left the profession in the 1970s due to politics and didn't return 
for many years. 



Why do I love the job?  It's the kids and only the kids.  My work with teachers 
is for the kids.  



The seniors have left.  Last week one of the boys gave me a hug and said thanks 
for the help I gave him on his junior and senior papers.  About six students 
around him said "Hey, she helped me, too."  This is my fourth year at the high 
school and the numbers are growing. 



Once, when I was in the elementary school several years ago,  I was reading 
Library 'Lil with voices and expression as we storytellers do.   When I was done 
one of the girls said, "Wow, I forgot I was in school."  I have never received a 
better complement. 



These are the reasons I love my job and my profession.  From the first time my 
father brought me to the public library as a child of 6 or 7, I have loved the 
library, any library.  We are a most helping profession without much expectation 
of reward but the comments from our patrons.  We answer the same questions over 
and over with a smile.  Our profession is patient and loving, bright and, mostly, 
enthusiastic.  I just hope we can draw in new, younger people to our 
profession.  



Marilyn Kulkarni 

Librarian 

Brandywine High School 

Wilmington, DE 

mask1@comcast.net 





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lisa Hunt" <lisa3moon@YAHOO.COM> 
To: "LM NET" <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> 
Sent: Friday, June 4, 2010 10:35:25 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: [LM_NET] TARGET:  We happy few... 

The recent discussion about "obsolete libraries" has been positive and remained 
professional.  However, there is that underlying negative tone in the discussion. 
 I'm putting my focus on the positive, and I'm sure many of you do that, too. 
 These are some tough economic times, even in the BEST of time work in the school 
library isn't always easy.  Personally, I've dealt with some real blows in my own 
position.  I used to absolutely love my job, but over the past 5 years coming to 
work has sometimes made me physically ill.  I've done so much soul searching to 
determine why I'm still in this gig.   

I do love my work.  I enjoy my work as a librarian.  When I'm with students or 
helping teachers to create and deliver meaningful instruction I feel joy and 
happiness with my work.  Things that break my heart or make me ill at work have to 
do with the politics of education. 

How many of us are happy with our work?  Are we only a "happy few?"  I love what 
I do and that is why I do it.  Who else loves this work and why do you love it? 

  
Lisa Hunt, NBCT 2005 
School Library Media Specialist 
Apple Creek Elementary 
Moore, OK 
lisa3moon@yahoo.com 




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