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SO BASICALLY THE LIBRARY IS A FREE PLACE FOR THE COMMUNITY TO CONNECT, AN ENABLER OF LIFELONG LEARNING FOR ALL, AND A CORNERSTONE OF DEMOCRACY THAT YOU'RE ALREADY SUPPORTING WITH PROPERTY TAXES SO STOP PAYING TO LISTEN TO AUDIOBOOKS
I was loling at this tweet and Kyle asked what was so funny. He has never heard of Amelia Bedelia. π± As a librarian I think this annulled our marriage, right???
I think everyone could use a lighthearted/happy story right now so here goes:
At the beginning of the pandemic I went through some painful personal stuff and would often go out at night for long walks because no one was around and I couldnβt sleep anyway. One night I was walking
βI see yβall have ties to check out. Do yβall have jet skis too? Iβm fixing to ride one this weekend?β
-patron who just called hoping to checkout a jet ski from the library. Now Iβm imagining a librarian trying to catalog a jet ski.
I want a leader who was once a girl in the back of the class who kept raising her hand because she did the homework and had full confidence in her voice and didn't give a damn what anyone thought about it, let alone the boys around her. That's who I want fighting for me.