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    Flowers handed from person to personSteve Tetreault writes: “I am fortunate enough to get to talk to school librarians from all over. I’ve noticed during many of these conversations that, as passionate as school librarians are about doing what they do, they also frequently refer to what they, personally, do as nothing special. Each and every time, this hurts my heart, because nothing could be further from the truth. Having any kind of school library program provides resources and access for which students and staff would otherwise go wanting. And I have met very few school librarians who are just bare-minimum kinds of folks!”

    Knowledge Quest, May 20

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      Multiple paths in the woods“Everyone’s path to academic libraries is a little different. One common refrain that’s come up among this year’s ACRLog First-Year Academic Librarians is what we’ve learned from our past jobs—which could be anything from previous careers, library jobs that we had during grad school, and non-library jobs—that we use in our work today in academic libraries. Today, three of us are sharing some thoughts and suggestions about what we learned from previous jobs.”

      ACRLog, May 19

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      Flowers handed from person to personSteve Tetreault writes: “I am fortunate enough to get to talk to school librarians from all over. I’ve noticed during many of these conversations that, as passionate as school librarians are about doing what they do, they also frequently refer to what they, personally, do as nothing special. Each and every time, this hurts my heart, because nothing could be further from the truth. Having any kind of school library program provides resources and access for which students and staff would otherwise go wanting. And I have met very few school librarians who are just bare-minimum kinds of folks!”

      Knowledge Quest, May 20

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      Librarian and archivist Colleen Barbus is wearing black and seated in a blue comfy chair in front of rows of low bookshelves making up the ALA LibraryAnne Ford writes: “Like many ALA staffers, librarian and archivist Colleen Barbus remembers the Association’s previous headquarters.  ‘The stacks led you into a couple of little rabbit warrens,’ she says. The rabbit-warren days are over. Since ALA headquarters moved in 2020 to its present location at Chicago’s 225 North Michigan Avenue, Barbus has presided over a completely reimagined in-house library. Visitors step off the elevator to find a large, open, bright area that’s home to not only the office’s main reception desk but also row upon row of low book-filled shelves.”

      American Libraries feature, May

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