I have always been amazed by public librarians for these reasons, and I would have loved to encounter you as librarian as a kid myself. (When I was small getting Real Recommendations from Real Librarians made me feel all special. Heh.) That's pretty great.
When I first picked up the Young Wizards books (I mention because I think I recall your having posted about them? I hope this isn't terribly creepy, not intended as such -- I'd remember stuff posted about them, they're one of many book-homes) I was so intimidated by Nita and Dairine having read "all the books" in their local library and wondered if I could. Hah. Oh, man, <3.
Also, I'm slightly embarrassed because when I first read that sentence about 15 y/olds, I read "5", and I thought "well, that is quite young, I think I can understand not knowing that vocabulary yet..." -- clearly without thinking about the pairing of "five year old" and "my teacher wants" and "novel". Right. >_> (Ooh! Writing that sentence made me think of something very interesting that I worked on a long time ago about duals and plurals in English! Thank you indirectly! ANYWAY.) Then I got it. Eep.
Third footnote: that sounds so depressing to me. :| A world I don't live in, I guess. Best of luck with all the librarianship -- I am grateful for people in the world who manage that awesome and that terrible!
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Date: 2012-09-07 04:51 am (UTC)When I first picked up the Young Wizards books (I mention because I think I recall your having posted about them? I hope this isn't terribly creepy, not intended as such -- I'd remember stuff posted about them, they're one of many book-homes) I was so intimidated by Nita and Dairine having read "all the books" in their local library and wondered if I could. Hah. Oh, man, <3.
Also, I'm slightly embarrassed because when I first read that sentence about 15 y/olds, I read "5", and I thought "well, that is quite young, I think I can understand not knowing that vocabulary yet..." -- clearly without thinking about the pairing of "five year old" and "my teacher wants" and "novel". Right. >_> (Ooh! Writing that sentence made me think of something very interesting that I worked on a long time ago about duals and plurals in English! Thank you indirectly! ANYWAY.) Then I got it. Eep.
Third footnote: that sounds so depressing to me. :| A world I don't live in, I guess. Best of luck with all the librarianship -- I am grateful for people in the world who manage that awesome and that terrible!