The Librarian Within

You see these people?

I LOVE THEM! They will always be my library family.

I worked at the library for over 5 years (with a break for BYU-Idaho in the middle there). It was my first job. And it was the one I left behind to move on to my job of motherhood.

My old co-worker, Nikki, just had a baby shower and so I got to see a bunch of these awesome ladies again, and it had been awhile! I whipped out my camera to take a picture, but the dang batteries were dead, so I had to pull out some old photos.

I am very pregnant with Jenna here.

I worked at the Kaysville City Library. I worked with some of the best people I know! I LOVED being a librarian. I loved handling books. I loved reading books. I loved knowing what books were popular. I loved our Kaysville patrons. I loved helping them find what they needed.

(I didn't so much love telling people about their huge fines.)

BUT everything else I LOVED!

My co-workers were like family. I have so many great memories there at little Kaysville City Library. You know, the basics, like being on the look out for creepy stalker guys so Nikki could hide in the janitor's closet. Also of that same guy telling us he was about to embark on a workout regimen and showing us his "Before" pictures, which YES involved UNDERWEAR! Good times I tell you. I remember some of the sweetest little kids ever... as well as some pretty awful ones. I have fond memories of Nate coming to visit me there, giving me flowers, and Sandy saying, "Well what do WE have to do to get flowers?!" and Sherma says, "Die." Oh my heck these people were hilarious. I loved the downtimes and chatting with the rest of the librarians. It was so comfortable there. When the new Harry Potter books came in a bunch of us had a little "sleepover" (ssh!) at the library in order to "protect" them before they could officially be checked out. We were a super friendly, easy going, quaint little place. I am telling you it was the best job ever!

WELL as you may know, Kaysville City Library is no longer a city library. The county, after many heated city council meetings (where most in attendance, our loyal patrons, wanted to keep the city library a CITY library) took over, thus firing all of us from our positions. I may or may not have been quoted in a couple newspapers about what I thought of THAT. We actually had to go through the county's application process if we wanted a chance at getting our jobs back. I did get hired back on with the county and thus got transferred to Farmington. Change was hard, but the county was not bad at all and I worked with very nice people. But nothing could compare to how things were!

This is one of the last days at Kaysville City Library, before they remodeled everything and fired everyone. :)


I worked for Davis County Library for a year and then had Carter and quit. Davis County Library is great, of course it is. BUT Kaysville was better! I am NOT biased! :)

I SO miss coming home with a pile of books to read. I so miss READING! Someday, hopefully, I will have time again. BUT, what I DO make time for is taking my own kids to the library. They LOVE books and what do you know, I have become one of those moms who brings back children's books with ripped pages and big fines AHHH now I understand! But I hope my kids grow up loving the library just as much as me! I will always be part librarian, for sure.