{"id":324,"date":"2010-04-12T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2010-04-09T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T20:30:12","slug":"324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/324\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Appreciation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We Need You Badly, Badly, Madam Librarian\u2014Miss Shannon!<\/h1>\n

That phrase doesn\u2019t scan as well as \u201cMarion the Librarian\u201d in The Music Man<\/em>, but Louisville\u2019s Portland library does indeed need its Miss Shannon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here to get Miss Shannon’s take on the fun, power, and yes, quiet, of working in a library is my after-school reading class.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Aneesha<\/strong>: What do you do most of the time?<\/p>\n

Miss Shannon<\/strong>: I help people when they\u2019re working on the computers.\u00a0 I also answer questions like, \u201cWho was the forty-first president?\u201d<\/p>\n

Malcolm<\/strong>: Do you have to be quiet to be a librarian?<\/p>\n

Miss Shannon<\/strong>: No.\u00a0 That\u2019s an idea from a long time ago.\u00a0 Twenty-five years ago, this job was just about libraries.\u00a0 Now, it\u2019s about helping people find information, and it\u2019s important to be able to give information back and forth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Phillip:<\/strong> Is it fun to be a librarian?<\/p>\n

Miss Shannon<\/strong>: My job is just wonderful.\u00a0 I love best to read, and I love stories and crafts.\u00a0 I love finding information for people and learning new things.\u00a0 And I like meeting new kids, too.\u00a0 You know, my dog died on a Sunday, and first thing on Monday morning, I went in to read to kindergartners because I knew it would make me feel better.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Daryl:<\/strong> When I went to my dad\u2019s house one day, a dog got ran over.<\/p>\n

Miss Shannon<\/strong>: Do you have a question about libraries?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Phillip<\/strong>: If somebody wants to check out a book, can you help them with that?<\/p>\n

Miss Shannon<\/strong>: I can do everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n

p.s. Miss Shannon would also like you to know that she is not, technically, a librarian.\u00a0 She does not have her Master\u2019s of Library Science and is therefore a Children\u2019s Library Assistant.\u00a0 I say, we are just glad you are here for us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We Need You Badly, Badly, Madam Librarian\u2014Miss Shannon! That phrase doesn\u2019t scan as well as \u201cMarion the Librarian\u201d in The Music Man, but Louisville\u2019s Portland library does indeed need its Miss Shannon.\u00a0 Here to get Miss Shannon’s take on the fun, power, and yes, quiet, of working in a library is my after-school reading class.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","tag-library-appreciation-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}