I don’t know why it never occurred to me before to become a librarian. I spend most of my life with my nose in a book, pounding the pavement on hour-long runs with an audiobook buzzing in my earbuds, or adding books to my to-read list on Goodreads with wild abandon.

My family is a family that reads. My mom read to me every night before bed, and my brothers and I devoured an assortment of books together and many others apart. Our annual summer road trip 13 hours west to visit our grandparents was accompanied by a full-cast performance of The Chronicles of Narnia or an umpteenth rereading of the Harry Potter series. We were (and I still am) drawn by the magic of a good story into a world we can inhabit for hours, a world where we can meet people and creatures of all kinds and learn empathy and pain and joy through these fictional experiences. And all of this makes me want to pull some children into a circle and show them what I learned at their age: Books give you the opportunity to live thousands of lives.

This is a career change for me, as I have been a full-time Proofreader at the Education Advisory Board (EAB) for five years. It’s a bubble I’m ready to burst–I’m drawn to discovery as an active woman with an active mind and a desire to devour knowledge and spread the joy I find in learning. Correcting grammar is just eating a saltine in the corner of a party while there is a build-your-own taco table taking up the entire rest of the room.

I’m getting out of that corner. I hope that my growth throughout my educational journey at ODU in the MLIS program will send me forth ready to serve my community and help with children’s services and outreach. My desire is to touch the world through providing guidance and access to knowledge, reading, and learning in all of its ups and downs. I’m finally getting out from behind the desk and going for it.

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