{"id":3550,"date":"2014-06-27T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2014-07-11T16:22:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T20:22:48","slug":"librarians-one-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/the-vault-of-dreamers\/librarians-one-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"The Librarians and One Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. My first public library librarian in St. Paul, Minnesota handed me A Little Princess<\/em> by Frances Hodgson Burnett<\/a>, and whenever I went back to the library, I would start by finding that book on the shelf, my familiar cornerstone.<\/p>\n

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2. When my middle school librarian urged me to browse, I discovered two things: George MacDonald<\/a>\u2019s The Light Princess<\/em> and that I could find good books myself.<\/p>\n

3. My high school librarian showed me how to use the subject, author, and title sections of the card catalog and the Readers\u2019 Guide to Periodical Literature<\/em>. She smiled at me every single time I came in and let me nap on the rug between the fiction shelves.<\/p>\n

4. When I came new to my town with two little kids and a third on the way, the children\u2019s librarian at the public library had a weekly story hour that fed my soul. She gave me a place where my kids were welcome, entertained us with voices and brilliantly illustrated stories, and sent us home with piles of knight books.<\/p>\n

5. The school librarian where I taught high school English added a new column on her sign-up sheet so I could reserve the big blue chairs for my students. She ordered shelves of manga and quietly repurchased the coveted books on sexuality that kept walking. It frightens me to think how much of her own money went to our collection.<\/p>\n

6. When I was forming a book group with my new neighbor, I invited the retired children\u2019s librarian, the same one who once read to my kids at story hour, to be a founding member, and now I\u2019m able to swap book ideas with my dear friend every month.<\/p>\n

7. This weekend I\u2019m off to ALA<\/a> in Las Vegas, where I\u2019ll have the chance to meet a few librarians. It goes without saying that they\u2019ll be knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and generous. What they may not know is that the past kindnesses of previous librarians predispose me already to be grateful to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. My first public library librarian in St. Paul, Minnesota handed me A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and whenever I went back to the library, I would start by finding that book on the shelf, my familiar cornerstone. 2. When my middle school librarian urged me to browse, I discovered two things: George […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-3550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-vault-of-dreamers","tag-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3556,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions\/3556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}