Perfect! For once, the bus and I are in sync. I arrive at my bus stop just in time to catch the #12 down Madison to the Central Library. Rarely do Metro and I have such synergy. Even better, a friend of my partner’s is gettng on the bus and we sit down and chat it up. After the usual how you doin’, she mentions she needs to revive her Spanish speaking skills because, even though she’s fluent, she doesn’t get a chance to speak Spanish lately. She said she’s afraid she’s losing her ability to carry on a conversation. “Hey”, I tell her, “we just got a new language database at the Library. You can use it from home. All you have to do is log on to your account and click on the Databases and Websites link on the home page. Then you just go to the link for Databases A-Z and look for the “Mango Languages” database. Very cool (I think to myself).
Then she tells me she has an assignment for a scholarship she just got from Seattle U. She has to re-do her resume by Friday (this is Tuesday morning). “Guess what?”, I tell her. “We just got another new database for creating resumes. It’s called “Resume Builder. Go to www.spl.org and type in “Resume Builder” in the seach box and select the “Search…This Site” button. Or you can use the same “Databases A-Z” list you used to find the Mango Languages database.
We are both amazed that in the time it took to go a mile and a half her most pressing information questions were answered. And if that weren’t enough, after I get off the bus and wave goodbye, a woman comes up to me on the sidewalk and says, “Thanks for the information”. I ask her what she means and she tells me, “I have to re-do my resume this week too!”
All this before I even GET to work. It’s a good day to be a librarian!
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