知人价值数字资源

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| By Andrea Corvin, Edgewood Community Library, New Mexico |

A young patron entered the glass doors of our small library in central New Mexico and began to hesitantly browse the nonfiction section. I perked up right away because kids of his ilk (tweenagers) are, at times, a rare commodity. Desperate to make contact with such an infrequent and somewhat discerning library inhabitant, I approached my subject with a studied casualness akin to a naturalist documenting a chance encounter with an exotic species.

我认为一个满不在乎的倚靠在货架,勾住我的牛仔裤口袋拇指,问道:“你找什么特别?”他从货架底部抬起头看着我,婉转俯瞰我的笨拙姿势和紧张的询问,并解释我们只有几本书涵盖1812年他的战争需要多个不同资源的报告。他持续的目光接触和爱好为学术研究的鼓舞,我承认我的机会,感到惊喜与兴奋。金宝搏彩票我猛吸了我的胸口,支撑在我的臀部斗篷在我身后隆重纷飞的拳头宣告说,“不要怕,埃奇伍德的年轻公民,大风是在这里(插入大张旗鼓)!”金宝搏彩票

Teeming with a barely controlled excitement at having scored a library “win”, I showed him how to access Gale, pointing out a couple features here and there. He made short work of his research, finding all the information he needed and left the library seemingly content. One might even go as far to say that he was quite impressed by my librarian prowess.

Like many public libraries in New Mexico, Edgewood Community Library is modest and rural with limited resources at its disposal. We mostly allocate our small acquisitions budget toward popular requests and trending literature, leaving room for little else. This means that it is very difficult to justify purchasing pricey reference, academic, and/or nonfiction works on subjects that may only circulate a couple of times, especially since shelf space is, like our tweenage visitors, a commodity.

Luckily, the新墨西哥州州立图书馆provides statewide access to Gale databases, filling in any collection gaps and providing easy access to a plethora of vetted information otherwise unavailable to our patrons. Thus, enabling my reputation as the all-knowing librarian to remain untarnished.


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Although Andrea has a BBA, she found herself applying for a library position in her hometown nearly nine years ago, immediately adopting a keen appreciation for all the rewarding and occasionally bizarre experiences associated with public library work. She lives in Edgewood, New Mexico with a sassy five-year-old daughter, two rude goats, a fluffy miniature horse, eight lazy chickens, two geriatric dogs, two very aloof cats, and an ever patient, loving husband.


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