I totally scratched the idea of working in a library until much later, while waiting tables in college. I worked in a restaurant where lots of librarians used to get brunch on the weekends, and they quickly took me under their wing. The librarians at the Kalamazoo Public Library provided me with so many amazing opportunities that a budding librarian could only dream of — I worked on a reference desk right from the get-go in the Law Library section of a public library. — Leah White, the Reader Services Librarian (this week’s Five Question Friday interviewee) and a 2012 Library Journal Mover and Shaker.  [image via]
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I totally scratched the idea of working in a library until much later, while waiting tables in college. I worked in a restaurant where lots of librarians used to get brunch on the weekends, and they quickly took me under their wing. The librarians at the Kalamazoo Public Library provided me with so many amazing opportunities that a budding librarian could only dream of — I worked on a reference desk right from the get-go in the Law Library section of a public library.

— Leah White, the Reader Services Librarian (this week’s Five Question Friday interviewee) and a 2012 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. 

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