{"id":255,"date":"2010-03-27T10:37:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T15:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2010-06-02T10:25:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T15:25:35","slug":"my-favorite-librarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/my-favorite-librarian\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Librarian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Music Man’s<\/em> Marion is, of course, an excellent librarian, but my favorite librarian is my friend Judy, whom I worked with several years ago.\u00a0 Judy was obsessed with cleaning the gunk off the binding labels, and whenever I’d stop in to chat (often), she’d say, “Let me just get my cleaner,” and she’d stand there and attack the binding with a wet cotton ball.\u00a0 She had a fantastic collection of colored pens and paper clips, and while she’d clean, I’d arrange the paper clips in rainbow order.\u00a0 Often, I’d find that one of my favorite students, a Judy fan as well, had beat me to it.\u00a0 Judy’s that kind of librarian–loyal fans, long talks.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite Judy Library stories involves the Poppleton books for young readers.\u00a0 Poppleton is a great character: large and pink, what he lacks in intellect he makes up for in kindness.\u00a0 In one Poppleton book, he carries, among other things,\u00a0a suitcase and–I believe–a pink hanky.\u00a0 Judy, being the great librarian that she is, assembled miniature Poppleton items for her class to hand around, including a tiny square of pink Kleenex.\u00a0 One of her first-graders, on seeing it,\u00a0looked up at her anxiously.\u00a0 “Is this Poppleton’s?” he asked.\u00a0 “Should we be careful so we don’t mess it up?”<\/p>\n

Or at least I think that’s how the story goes.\u00a0 The point is, Judy is a librarian who makes magic happen, whether she’s solving your problems over a stack of gummy books or cutting a tissue down to imagination size.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 27th is your last day to have a comment counted toward the Library-Lovin’ Blog Challenge!\u00a0 <\/a>Leave a comment and I’ll donate $1 to the local library.\u00a0 If I amass 10 comments today, I’ll make it $1.50 per!\u00a0 And thanks to Jennifer Hubbard <\/a>for starting the challenge in the first place!\u00a0 You are a visionary!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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