But the bread and the butter of any children’s librarian’s arsenal is the hand rhyme. Songs and dances and those little egg shakers that I suspect breed like bunnies in library storage closets (seriously, when did we buy 100 of them?). A kick in your step and a superhuman ability to engage a room of squirmy squirmers for, at the very least, 15 minutes. Alas, while we do tend to love reading, children’s librarianship in particular requires a certain oomph. Many is the library graduate student we’ve captured with such myths. I have a patron in my library that truly believes, in his heart of hearts, that all that librarians do all day is read books. This, of course, does not gel with the public’s perception of what librarianship constitutes. On the first day of class it will be a rule, NAY, law that there must be a banner hanging over the door of the classroom that states the following fact: ALL CHILDREN’S LIBRARIANS MUST ALSO BE PERFORMERS. For example, let us say you’re a prospective library school student who has decided to take a class in children’s librarianship. Some really strange, site-specific changes. When I rule the world, there are gonna be some changes.
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