I've been an official librarian for three months now, and I am loving this job! Mind you, I end each nine-to-ten-hour workday exhausted physically and mentally, but it's a "good tired". I still have a backlog of tasks to get done, my desk looks like a snowstorm of papers and forms, and I'm working out the kinks of my routines and balancing the work "on the floor" with clerical obligations. But I've established a working schedule with lots of mini-lessons, got Newspaper Club and fifth grade lunch bunch book clubs off the ground, and survived my first book fair which netted five-digit sales. None of this has been accomplished as a solo librarian, however; I could not do this job without my uber-efficient, well-experienced assistant, wonderful IT support, and the many volunteers who sort and shelve books and managed the chaos of the bookfair with me. It takes a village to run a library!
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