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I was a big library user growing up because it was really a refuge for me and a place where

I just found ideas that connected me to the world but also broaden my perspective.

Carolyn foot loved libraries as a kid. When she got older, she became a school librarian and she

loved that too. And just the students passion for reading really matched my own when I was growing up

and I felt like being in communication with that all of the time could just be very, very powerful.

I think people sometimes think of the school librarian as the person who helped them find the

shelf with the book about Mesopotamia for their social studies report. Can you tell me what

else the librarian is like when people picture a librarian, what do you hope that picture looks like?

What I hope that they think of is someone who's passionate about books and getting books in the

hands of readers, but also passionate about how to help students ask good questions, become

information literate, get involved in STEM and engineering. A lot of libraries now are very active

dynamic places and librarians are sort of guides to that world of information. A guide to a world

of information, but lately some parents and politicians have desperately tried to limit what

kinds of information a school librarian can guide kids to. They're not just protesting specific

books, but entire themes. Carolyn foot was a district librarian in the suburbs of Austin, Texas

for about 30 years. Last year, not long after she retired, a Texas Republican state legislator named

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