After a brief career detour- thanks Covid- I’m back in the library world, currently working as a Library Assistant in a high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is such a change working in a school library compared to a public library. One thing I noticed right away is that you do not need the same kind of “library radar” that you usually require in a public library; watching who’s coming in the building all the time, making sure people aren’t in the washroom for too long, confirming that sleepers are, in fact, <\/em>sleeping etc. It is a much more controlled environment that I’m finding it more of a positive, relaxed environment than the public library. (Nothing against public libraries! I still love them, but when you have worked in rough areas and had to deal with drug overdoses and fist fights, it is nice having a more relaxing workspace.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another difference is that we catalogue all our books. Never in my 15 years in public libraries did I catalogue books, other than magazines, so that’s interesting to learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have just started this temp assignment, and I know that I’ll want to be a librarian again in the near future but there is always the option of upgrading to get my teacher’s certificate and becoming a Teacher-Librarian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But as for now, I’m content working as a Library Assistant, learning more about the workings of a school library, observing and learning from a wonderful Teacher-Librarian, all the while working in a peaceful, friendly school, filled with (mostly) lovely kids. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n After a brief career detour- thanks Covid- I’m back in the library world, currently working as a Library Assistant in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}