I was enthused by how many children were using the library
at school, with 50-100 books being taken out daily. However as the week wore on,
I was becoming less enthused with the amount of books being returned, the state
of the books that were returned, and the over all state of the library after
the hurricane of kids left each day. My first reaction was to get angry with
the kids for mistreating the books and make it personal feeling that they were mistreating
me. Then I was reminded that my mother read to me every night as a child and I
was surrounded by books at school, at home, and (because I was cool like that)
the library. Most of the kids I am working with have not had the same exposure
to books and thus my new goal is to try to create a culture of reading and
mostly just don’t take it personally.
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