Thinking
I spent some time thinking lately. As you know this is an activity that I encourage everyone to do. Sometimes this “intensive dwelling and exploring words within my head” means I neglect writing for others. One of my most active students came in and noticed me staring at the ceiling and thinking. When I glanced over, Andrew had leaned against the checkout desk with his chin on his hand and was mimicking my thinking. I grinned and reminded him that thinking makes us smarter. Andrew responded that his teacher said he wasn’t getting smarter if he didn’t write it down….. Perhaps he has something there. Perhaps it is taking my thoughts, attempting to translate them, and the give and take of writing a blog that makes me smarter.
My #2 son announced during a car ride yesterday that his school librarians said his mom was famous. While I was laughing and going WHAT? What?!, my hubby dear groaned and said, “Now you’ll be insufferable.” While it was a funny thought, it was also very scary. Being famous, which I will take to mean simply visible within my state professional organization, might mean that somebody knew you existed and were watching you. ACK! Can’t have too much of that going on. That’s one topic I don’t want to think about.
Unless… perhaps I can work harder to get others to personally get involved in making their libraries better. Aha! I can encourage everyone to send representatives to be our voice during National Library Legislative Day May 1 and 2 in Washington, DC. If you can’t be there, contact your state coordinator and make sure they will speak for you and know what you are thinking. Make immediate plans to participate virtually if you can’t go physically. Learn how to tell your library’s stories and then share these so others can tell them.
Tennessee’s Library Legislative Day will be Tuesday, February 28th in Nashville, Tennessee. Rather than have a list of complaints or issues, delegates will hear a fantastic presentation on Growing Citizens @ our libraries. View the program and you will see that someone in Tennessee is thinking about the bigger picture of advocating for all libraries. I’ll keep you posted on how it goes. Collaborating with others and giving them enough stories that they can speak for us! Brilliant thinking. Now that’s the kind of stuff that should be famous.
