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01-Jun-08

Carla Hayden Executive Director, Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore) American Library Association President, 2003-2004 You have to be at the table sometimes to be part of the solution . . . Don’t just stand outside and snipe and complain about what’s wrong. Get in there and do the work.

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01-Jun-08

Jane Kinney Meyers Chief Executive Officer, Lubuto Library Project You have to be able to show that you’re serving people and changing things and doing things in the world. And, if you’re doing that, you’re being a good librarian. It’s a good thing.

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01-Jun-08

Thomas Mann Reference Librarian, Main Reading Room, Library of Congress … it’s just really satisfying work to be able to connect people to stuff that is really of interest to them in ways that they would just never find on their own.

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01-Jun-08

Em Claire Knowles Assistant Dean, Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science Not everyone is going to agree with you but you have to be ready to face friction in contest to your ideas.

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01-Jun-08

Kathleen de la Peña McCook Distinguished University Professor, University of South Florida School of Library and Information Science Don’t back down in fighting for what is right even if this makes you unpopular. Join the ACLU. Be active in local government. Be aware of the impact of electoral politics on the lives of people. Fight […]

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01-Jun-08

Stephanie A. Squicciarini Teen Services Librarian, Fairport (NY) Public Library Celebrate the successes completely and remember why they were successful. And learn from the failures and then remember not why they were failures, but why you wanted to continue to try.

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01-Jun-08

Connie Paul Executive Director, Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative Be connected, get involved, look for the big picture.

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