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 Linda, the Mobile Services Manager.
Why did you decide to get into Library work?
I didn't know until I was an adult how amazing libraries are. I grew up in Arizona with garage sales year round and purchased new to me books every weekend. When we moved to Kansas, I was a stay-at-home-mom and we lived directly across the street from a small library. We went every day and I fell in love with libraries. When the opportunity came up to work in teen services, I took the job!
What is your favorite part about working for a library?
I think library work is satisfying because it is both roots and wings work. We have specific things that we can control and be judged on but we get to use our creativity in almost everything we do. I appreciate the grounding of day to day work and I appreciate the chance to fly with the ideas we generate.
Do you have a book or collections recommendation?
Oh golly! This is always a tough one. The books that I come back to again and again is Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. It's fantasy but more importantly, it's human. It's an exploration of all our funny little ways and our vulnerabilities and our dreams and it is so accessible. You can learn how to be a good human being by paying attention to Pratchett's insights about living.
What's a fun fact about you?
I am the Mobile Services Manager and I didn't get my driver's license until I was 19 years old. I just took the bus everywhere!
Keep checking back all week to meet more of our staff or stop by one of locations today!
Sourcery: a Discworld Novel
Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn't complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son - a wizard squared (that's all the math, really) - who, of course, was a source of magic, a sourcerer. Unseen University, the most magical establishment on the Discworld, has finally got its wish: the emergence of a wizard more powerful than they've ever seen. But be careful what you wish for . . . As the drastic consequences of sourcery begin to unfold, it's up to one unlikely wizard to save them. Rincewind has survived a string of misadventures, including falling off the edge of the world - which is no mean feat when it's flying through space on the back of a turtle and held up by four elephants. Now, he must take the University's most precious artifact, the very embodiment of magic itself, and deliver it halfway across the Disc to prevent a mathematically blessed sourcerer from leading the wizards to dominate all of Discworld. Can Rincewind and his tiny band, including the carnivorous Luggage, stave off the Apocalypse? The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Sourcery is the 3rd installment in the Wizards series and the 5th Discworld book