Isn’t it funny how a random conversation can lead to something more….like a blog post? One day, I was talking with a friend about library memories, feeling a sense of nostalgia. I might have mentioned my elementary school librarian, Miss Secrist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Miss Secrist fascinated me by pronouncing Washington as “Wershington.” She read to us, even as we got older. More importantly, she encouraged my<\/strong> love of reading and sense of agency by letting me check out my two favorite books over and over and over again. I also fondly recounted how I “collected” area public libraries with my dad. In each, he would head off to flip through the (I’m dating myself here) records <\/em>(jazz was his passion), while I went to gather more books than I could carry. I started wondering: What memories did others have of libraries and librarians? Thanks to Twitter<\/a>, here are some of the stories that I collected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I loved reading these memories. Words like “warm” and “welcome,” “caring” and “connection” jumped out at me. For those with such positive recollections, I imagine you are, like I am, trying to continue that legacy. But there are many out there who didn’t<\/strong> or don’t<\/strong> have that same sense of nostalgia for libraries or librarians. Why is that? What aren’t I doing that I could be doing? Who am I not reaching that I could be reaching? So that, years from now, more<\/strong><\/em> people can look back and be grateful for a warm, welcoming, caring connection. I don’t see these memories as just lovely bits of nostalgia. I see them as a challenge to be better and do better. Please feel free to share your own library memories in the comments below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n This post addresses the following ALSC Core Competencies: I. Commitment to Client Group and V. Outreach and Advocacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Isn’t it funny how a random conversation can lead to something more….like a blog post? One day, I was talking with a friend about library memories, feeling a sense of nostalgia. I might have mentioned my elementary school librarian, Miss Secrist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[2058,1605,1611,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-kary-henry","category-commitment-to-client-group","category-outreach-and-advocacy","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}I remember…<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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