Wednesday, March 2, 2011

A Librarian's Journey - 12/4/09

I watch you excited about your library
Passionate about the kids you serve
Seeking to connect with them

You begin your journey reading popular books
Why, because you want to know what they like to read
What motivates them to pick a book up

The cadres of the middle school years
Flooding back before you
Knights rescuing fair damsels

So many heroic stories
Then factual excursions lead onward
Replaced by adventures of times long ago

Then reaching towards times to come
Or times and places which never were
Yet both enrich our human needs

Quenching the unending thirst
Tapping into the richness of existence
With every book which is opened

Doing so reveals new opportunities
Readies you to help your students
Knowing where to best to guide them

A librarian's journey never ends.

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