Welcome to our Library Joy Series in honor of National Library Week! Here we are highlighting some of our amazing staff to share how and why they love what they do. Next up is Alex, a Mobile Services Associate on our Purple Mobile Library!
Why did you decide to get into Library work?
I have been a lifelong library lover. Libraries are a sanctuary for knowledge and creativity, a longstanding social institution that I am very proud to be a part of. Libraries have always been a safe space for me throughout school and adulthood and it is just such an honor to be able to provide that same service for all of our patrons.
What is your favorite part about working for a library?
Besides getting to see all the new books as they are put on the shelves, it's getting to interact with our regulars, developing relationships with our kids, and the feeling you get when you give someone an item that they have been wanting to see for so long but haven't been able to make it to the library. Seeing kids faces light up as the bus pulls up! I love getting to do storytime and seeing all the smiling, giggling faces.
Do you have a book or collections recommendation?
For kids, I love to read Little Freddie Two Pants by Drew Daywalt.
For adults, I just read Half His Age by Jeanette McCurdy. Can't put it down!
What's a fun fact about you?
I used to be a wedding and special event florist! I can identify hundreds of different flower species.
Keep checking back all week to meet more of our staff or stop by one of locations today!
Little Freddy Two Pants
A laugh-out-loud funny picture book about a dog who doesn't know how many pairs of pants to wear (or where to wear them!) by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Day the Crayons Quit. One pair of pants? Two pairs? Three? How many pants should Little Freddie wear? And where should he put them? What about underpants? Where do they go? In a book with text and art that are sure to induce giggles, Drew Daywalt and Lucy Ruth Cummins settle the age-old question: Do a dog's front legs deserve pants, too?
Half His Age
Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn't know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn't? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it's just enough that he sees her when no one else does. Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles -- or attempts to overcome them -- in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.