(Apologies for the slight delay on this post, due to air travel, time zone transitions,
and bitter, bitter cold that makes it almost impossible to even think!)

Librarians!!

I’m not the only one who’s been moved to put some love out there in the world.

Here’s another picture-perfect post from Tabatha Yeatts, and some words of wisdom from author Lindsey Lane.

And here’s where you author-folk can walk the walk — at Authors for Librarians. 

I’m wrapping up my week dedicated to Librarian Love, but that’s not to say there won’t be more of it to come. Librarians are a pivotal part of our schools and our communities. They are the hosts of our downtime, guides to our adventures, supporters of our studies, and they are teachers. They teach us how to read and how to research. They teach us what’s inside books and how to use books. They teach the wild extroverts how to be happy alone, and they teach the quiet introverts that they are not alone. They teach us about time travel and dinosaurs, illness and wellness, love and fear, humor and surprise. They teach us that the world is both very, very big and also at our fingertips all the time. 

Let us not make the mistaking of thinking librarians are any less than all of that. We need them, as students and teachers, parents and people. We need them as a society and we should tell them so. And show them, too.

Namaste.