Hello All,
My name is Sara. I live in Eastern Washington and work for our local library district here as the Associate Director of Advocacy & Development. Before my 4.5 years in this role, I was an executive director of a local children’s literacy non-profit. I love my role within our library, which allows me to build and foster strategic relationships, fundraise, and be out in our community. I also enjoy educating community members on the library bill of rights, freedom to read and other library principles. I look forward to finishing my MLIS degree next term.
A little more about me.. I have two children and they are starting middle school and high school this year. GULP. I enjoy spending time with my children cooking with them, skiing with them and just learning more about who they are growing up to be.
My hobbies include reading romance books, a 6 day a week Crossfit habit, cooking and spending time with my friends. I grew up in Juneau, Alaska, located in the largest rainforest in North America, and now live in a climate that has as many days of sun as Juneau gets rain.
I get a lot of fulfillment in volunteering and serving on local boards. I hope to volunteer with local refugee families with my daughter this fall. A local program, Team Read, is part of the nonprofit I worked with before and the program is used to help refugee students learn to read English.
Random tidbit…I cannot stand Times New Roman and find it terribly hard to read. I’ll write up my papers in another font and then switch it over just before turning in MLIS papers.
I look forward to what this course has to offer this fall and from learning from you all.
Take care, Sara
Hi Sara! You seem to be a busy human accomplishing a lot of great things! Also, you have two beautiful children and I wish them the best with school, as it can be hard starting high school or middle school.
I see that you like romance novels, which I usually don’t gravitate towards, but there have been some that I love. One of my favorites was probably Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell. One of my least favorites (which may be controversial…) is Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. But if you have any recommendations, please let me know! I look forward to getting to know you more.
@saraschwan Your position sounds super cool and very connected to your community. Washington State is one of my favorite places. Thanks for sharing the photo – stay for having a high schooler in the house!
Welcome to #hyperlib
Also – No Times Roman required in this class!
Yea to no Times New Roman! 🙂 And yes, Washington is a beautiful state – I love living on the dry, arid side of the state with all the agriculture and sunshine. I also love the west side with the trees, rain and ocean!
And I do love my role. 🙂