Escapism & Destiny

By Lynette M.

我的一生中,我注定是一名图书管理员。我在一个动荡的家庭长大。我的父母离婚了,虽然我住在一起,我的母亲酗酒的大部分时间,我经常在寄养家庭,当她试图以“干”。

我发现,无论我在哪所学校,我住什么邻里或家庭我住用,我可以前往图书馆,他们都是相同的。不同的墙壁,不同的人,但也许库本身是我的朋友。我读了一本书,并在我的头,每本书我读播放电影丢失。这是逃避现实在其最好的。

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我不知道

凯西S.

Having a love for reading my whole life, and two years experience as an elementary school language arts teacher, I was excited to return to my Alma mater as the new K-12 librarian. My first year, there, I was assigned a junior as a student aide.

她是一个安静,彬彬有礼的年轻女士谁是一个工作认真的人,一个伟大的打字员。我们仍然打字卡目录手工那时,所以我教她如何输入卡和分配她加入新的图书。她做了这么好的工作,认为接下来的夏天,我付给她自己的钱,以帮助我获得图书馆准备为秋季。

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图书馆改变了我的生活

By Martha V. I started working part-time in a very small (one-person) public library when my children were small. I hadn’t finished an even two-year college degree but the library didn’t require a degree. I loved working in the library, teaching people of all ages about the library and learning something new every day myself. …阅读更多

Libraries Forever……

By Nann T.

只是因为今天的易怒的发展并不意味着库是变得无关紧要......在历史记录。看... .Libraries已经持续了几个世纪以来存在由于自己的需要...... .the需要的人来研究和阅读,收集和写的......他们的生活的反映,事件... .The想法,库将被削弱是荒谬的......像并排188金宝搏北京赛车的微波炉和灶台...... .Exist侧,所有的采集点的那个男人认为是必要的。

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Sacred Space

By Cyn D.

该建筑仍然存在,虽然它现在作为“表演”空间,我相信。但是,在芝加哥市中心的主图书馆雄伟的大理石和木材圆形大厅是一个神奇的门户网站,盛大而神圣的空间。周围的圆形大厅巨大的客房提供不仅仅是书籍,但电影中,爵士大师和所有类型的经典乙烯基唱片,你实际上可以带回家,并将自己的墙壁......神奇珍品的艺术作品。

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Integrating Library Resources into the College Classroom

By Alice Eng

[alert-info]Recently, we issued a challenge to all those who planned to attend the Charleston Conference this November. Answer a question in 1,000 to 1,500 words, and when a travel scholarship to attend the 2014 conference. While, we received many thoughtful responses, our far-and-above favorite came from Alice Eng, Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of North Florida. This is her winning essay in response to our question: “What is the best way for library resources to be integrated into the university or college curriculum, and how, in your opinion, could this be achieved?”[/alert-info]

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