I could say that I decided to become a librarian because I wanted to change the world, to change people’s mind by engaging them with wonderful works of literature.  The truth is not so altruistic, I’m afraid.  The truth is that I became a Librarian because I didn’t really know what to do in life and I liked the idea of being a Librarian.  It turned out that I made the right choice, since it’s a job that has suited me well over the years, and my career and working environment has changed with me as I have changed and grown. 

 

I didn’t initially have much interest in working with books, and it’s a common misconception that librarians only work with books in public libraries.  I have had brief flirtations with more traditional libraries over the years, but it is only in the last three out of nearly 20 years that I have worked in the more traditional setting of a school library.  As library professionals, we know that librarians work across both private and public sectors and with a variety of different media.  Librarians are stereotyped as old and fuddy-duddy, yet in reality we are often at the forefront of technology.  The technology I use in my job on a daily basis has constantly changed and will continue to do so if we are too keep up with trends.  I have worked in a pharmaceutical library, a national museum in London, a law library, for a television company, in a couple of university libraries and now in a school library.  My career has been varied and whilst there have been, and still are, mundane moments, for the most part I have enjoyed a career where each day may bring a new set of challenges and where I can never predict the request that might be about to come walking through the door.