Teacher-librarian

Libraries cost money to build and maintain, regardless of how they are organized, and at the turn of the 20th century if you wanted a library you would write to Andrew Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie took the fortune he made in steel and turned it around to support libraries for everyone without looking at color. In areas of intense segregation, African Americans became fed up with the substandard quality of the library they were allowed to use as opposed to the library for white people. Carnegie…

“Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.” (Chbosky) .Many books get banned due to things like sexual situations, violence and negativity, age inappropriate and many other reasons. Some books are based off of real life complications, such as, family problems, drug or alcohol addictions, and many more drawbacks we face in the real world. Jodi Picoult's book, My Sister’s Keeper, should not be banned in High…

To begin, public libraries are home for the building of communities and deepening of personal relationships. Citizens go to public libraries for varying reasons. For example, some citizens borrow books, others find a place to study, and some attend meetings and other events that are available. According to Orland Park Public Library’s Calendar of Events, public events such as pilates classes, along with craft nights, take place in the library. On other nights, board meetings will occupy the…

The aroma of aged and contemporary books when you saunter into the library building, would you miss that? Touching books, writing in them, highlighting them, bookmarking them. Libraries are suffused with so many different resources for researching rather than just books. The card catalog categorizes all the books and where to locate them. Now this process has gone electronically along with the mechanism of checking out books. Is this the future of libraries, a virtual library where everything is…

Librarians are tasked with taking a patron from point A, their question, to point B, an answer to the question or resources that will provide the patron with further knowledge. Between these two points, librarians should not allow personal biases or beliefs to influence the process by which information is provided. Personal experience on the part of the librarian may provide insight for the patron, but it should not take the place…

When I arrived to the Lakeland Public Library, I was quickly whisked away into a small room and handed a schedule. The schedule was because I would be rotating through each different department of the library over the course of the day. I gathered my things, and began my day at Reference Services. Reference Services was a quiet job, consisting of answering peoples’ questions and overseeing the computer section. My time at each rotation was about an hour, and near the end of my shift at…

and instead, they became office aides. I was one of them, except I worked in the school library. My job there was to put books back on the shelves, make sure all the books were in the right place, and check books in and out to other students. The librarian, Mrs. Weatherholt, had just started that same year, so she helped me get really involved in the library. Because I had to put all the books away, I was introduced to so many books I never would have thought to give a second glance at. For…

One of the best parts of being a librarian is seeing the impact the programs and community events have on the patrons being served. However, this is paralleled by the patron appreciation that can be seen as well. In communities where every-day needs are not being met and budgets, both inside and outside of the library are growing smaller, it is more important than ever to find creative and new ways to serve the community. Public libraries are excellent places to provide at-risk youth with…

However, according to W. Boyd Rayward, Professor Emeritus in the Library in Information Science school at the University of Illinois, Librarians were hesitant to adopt some of the new technologies—such as the use of punch cards—until after World War II (2-3). The punch card system, invented in 1890, slowly found its way into libraries; it is estimated that at least one library began using…

at the skating rink or I was roaming the stacks of the library. When I went away to boarding school at 13, I found solace in the books of the library. I remember when the library moved from under the Eurthym room to the "new library". The librarian chose me to be her assisstant and help organize the library shelves. I rememver the day we formed a chain of students to move the books across the oval. When I visited my old school recently I still call that buidling the "new…