You should worship your libarian. Hopefully you already knew this. I look at them so much differently now, compared to when I was in school, in my older and (hopefully) wiser state. Back then I didn't think they did anything terribly difficult. Now I think school librarians come from a special breed of people who must have phenomenal patience, memory, multi-tasking skills, knowledge of technology, teaching strategies, and so much more. There is so much they do that of which we are unaware, especially in this technology-driven world.
The librarian at the school where I work had assigned me the task of checking all the websites linked from the school library site to see which ones are dead. On that site, she has several different categories for student projects, ranging from history of ancient civilizations to beginning chemistry to sites on every subject written in Spanish. It's really amazing how much time and effort went into her research so that the kids have one hell of a starting point. If that's not enough, she goes back several times a year to check which ones are dead and/or need to be updated. Eventually she will teach me how to fix dead links. She's a librarian and webmaster, and overall master of knowledge in general.
Even with the non-technology stuff, she helps kids with finding things (i.e. books) in the library. I think we can all agree that kids don't often know which authors they prefer reading or even remember the titles of books. Because of this, our illustrious librarian has put titles of books in parentheses next to authors (i.e. Collins (Hunger Games)) and labeled all books by genre (mystery, fantasy, comedy, etc) and stuck a label on every single fiction book in the stacks. And for a middle school library, it's quite an extensive collection.
What would children do without librarians? Heck, what would teachers do?
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