| Library Director? People often say to me
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| | sweeping sidewalks and watering shrubs in
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| when learning that I am a librarian that
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| | summer, borrowing books from other
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| it must be fun working in a library and
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| | libraries for interlibrary loans, picking
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| just reading books all the time. How
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| | up mail daily at the post office, trying
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| little they know.As a library director
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| | to keep people quiet so others can enjoy
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| some of my duties include: buying books
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| | the library and helping patrons find
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| and supplies, keeping records of all
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| | books. We also help people on the
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| library transactions, checking books in
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| | computers, clean the bathrooms, wash
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| and out, shelving books, attending
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| | windows, set up tables and chairs, vacuum
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| meetings and conferences and week-long
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| | the carpets, empty the wastebaskets, put
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| seminars, calling on overdue books and
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| | trash out for garbage day, dust, clean
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| sending reminders, doing bookwork totals
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| | and sweep entry.As we say at our
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| daily, monthly and yearly for statistics
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| | meetings: "We wear many hats and small
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| and reports, publicity, organizing and
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| | town librarians' jobs are a labor of
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| overseeing various library programs,
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| | love." You can prove that just by
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| which include Summer Reading, preschool
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| | looking at our salaries.Marge has been
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| story time, book discussion groups,
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| | writing all her life and has published
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| family night, teen night, coordinating
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| | two humor books. She is a library
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| volunteers, weeding out and discarding
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| | director in a small town in Southern
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| old and out of date books, shoveling
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| | Idaho and has just turned 62. She writes
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| snow, and spreading snow-melt in winter,
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| | a local column called, "Granny's Journal.
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