Toot! Toot! (Tooting Our Own Horn)

It's National Library Week! What? You didn't know? National Library Week is a yearly celebration designed to highlight the contributions of libraries and librarians. It might surprise you to know that I spent an enormous amount of time at the library in my life (shocker!) from storytime as a child, up through school and college. To me, libraries and their librarians have always seemed understated and humble. They were behind the scenes and the means to an end; be it a novel that I could escape into or a place to find the resources for an "A" on a term paper (hopefully).

Libraries are not typically vain places and librarians are in libraries to assist, guide, and help. Therefore, it seems a bit self-serving to blog about how great we are. That said, as a librarian, I cannot begin to tell you how many times I hear a patron say, "Wow, I never knew the library had/could do/would find that!" This got me thinking...

Did you know that if you need a directions, we'll print them out for you? Did you know that if we don't have a book (or a movie, music CD, sheet music, audiobook, etc..) we will try to find it for you, nearly anywhere in the world? Did you know that with your library card you can borrow passes to visit museums for free? Did you know that our children's librarians bake the cupcakes for our cupcake craft programs? Did you know that we pick and choose our favorite books to read to you at storytime? Did you know that we want you to get an "A" on that report too?

We want you to love your library as much as we do.

So perhaps a little gloating for a week once a year is just fine. Happy National Library Week!!

Amy and Josephine's yummy cucakes!

Posted by Nadine