By Lily Barr
Everybody knows Mrs. Weber! Most of us know our wonderful librarian from Maple East, but not many know her beyond from surface details. I hope to remedy that.
Mrs. Weber went to Geneseo College, majoring in Art History. She had originally wanted to be an archaeologist, but due to the lack of open positions for such a job in the Buffalo area, she was forced to find another career path. Thinking back to when she was in grade school, she remembered that the library had always been her favorite place. She also, of course, loved to read. Being a librarian just seemed like the right choice! She subsequently got her masters in the library program at UB.
This course included lots of library backend, such as Boolean searching, dealing with databases, cataloging, more general management, literature type and analysis, and some broad teaching classes. This choice didn’t come from nothing, either – throughout most of her life, Mrs. Weber was interested in teaching. She was in the Future Teachers of America club in high school, but started to wonder if she really wanted to be a teacher in college.
Outside of school, Mrs. Weber has a wide arrange of hobbies, which to no one’s surprise, includes reading! What you may not know is that she also enjoys hiking, kickboxing, and diamond painting. Her favorite trails she’s hiked are some in the Smoky Mountains, and the Garden of the Gods in Colorado.. Her kickboxing isn’t against others, just as a form of cardio, but I still wouldn’t want to mess with Mrs. Weber! Diamond painting, meanwhile, is like a paint by number, but using beads. It’s similar to a mosaic, if you’ve ever done one of those when you were younger. She also owns a siamese cat named Savannah Dyngus. Mrs. Weber’s husband is also a librarian, just at Attica Correctional Maximum Security prison (so, a little bit of a different clientele). Apparently, most of the prisoners are well-behaved in the library, since they don’t want to lose privileges to it. She also has a son and daughter, each now grown up.
Some other things she does around the building that you may not know are host clubs, catalog books and change their location, and, of course, babysit students. Take the recent puzzle piece incident, for example. For some reason, someone stuck a puzzle piece into the electrical outlet. After not getting electrocuted by removing the outlet, the puzzle piece was recovered, and one work order later, the outlet was replaced. Some clubs Mrs. Weber advises include debate club, HOSA, USABO, and Book Club!
When asked for final words of advice, Mrs. Weber said, “Become a librarian, because there is a shortage of us right now!”