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| weeding out and discarding old and out of date | | | | Southern Idaho and has just turned 62.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