I can’t begin to count how many good memories that place holds for me. Not only was it my first job, I ended up working there all throughout high school and college. Suffice it to say that I grew up in that library.
Well, I’m not going to bore you with my whole employment story again. I was reassigned as a clerical aide, or page-where I got to re-shelve books and locate back issue periodicals for patrons. Nonetheless, while the computers were going bye-bye for the 1990s, I was glad to learn that my job wasn’t. The Computer Connection gig only lasted a couple of years, though, as the first of many county cutbacks began to loom. The library actually ended up applying for a waiver, and the rest was history. The law didn’t allow me to work past 8:30, and the job required me to stay until 8:45. Not because I wasn’t qualified, but because I was still underage.
(As a graphic designer today, that’s my primary tool).Īs I recently learned from Carl, I almost didn’t get that job. Librarian Carl Keehn, who’d hired me, was the first to encourage me to take advantage of any downtime by learning all I could-particularly on that Macintosh.
#GLADYS NOON SPELLMAN PC#
Other, more utilitarian types booked time on the IBM PC and surprisingly, hardly anyone ever used the Macintosh. Anderson, the budding fiction writer who plugged away at the Apple IIe at least twice a month. I scheduled reservations for people I can still picture to this day, including Mr. What madness! “How do they stay in business?!” I asked my mom.įast-forward a few years and as a not-quite-fifteen-year-old kid in 1987, I got my work permit and was given my very first part-time job: manning the desk at the “ Computer Connection“-the library’s small public computer lab. It was the first library I can remember ever going into as a child, and I still vividly recall my amazement at learning that there was no limit to how many books I could check out at any given time-and that it was all completely free. By now, many of you already know that the Stanley Memorial Library has always been a very special place for me.
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