Just Ask about Diversity: A New Librarian Uses Books to Teach Empathy

Authors

  • Stephanie Conner

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.20.3.11

Abstract

As a beginning librarian and MLS student, the phrases “on-the-job-training” and “trial by fire” took on new meaning for me. There was so much I had to learn by doing.

Soon after starting my library science program at East Carolina University, I accepted a media coordinator position at Lillington-Shawtown (NC) Elementary School, a moderate-sized public school in a small rural county. The pre-kindergarten through fifth grade school had a population of about seven hundred students.

Author Biography

Stephanie Conner

Stephanie Conner has a BS in Education from Central Michigan University and taught elementary and middle school for twelve years before accepting a School Library Media Coordinator position with Harnett County Schools in NC. She has been the Media Coordinator for four years at Lillington-Shawtown Elementary, receiving her MLS from East Carolina University in May 2022.

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Published

2022-10-10

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 3 (2022): Fall

Section

Features

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