Working in a library is a career change for me.  As a youngster I loved art and books.  Being from a sporty family, I was always the odd one out.  I was dismissed as “the quiet arty girl with her head in a book”.   Even though in my heart I knew that I would love to work in a library, I was never encouraged to do so.  So I was accepted into architectural drafting at the Sydney Institute and worked at a local council.

It wasn’t until I had children, that I thought seriously about changing careers.  I started reading to my first son as soon as I could.  I would take them to the local library every week and we would go into the city to visit the art gallery, museum and state library.  My mind was made up.  As soon as the time came to go back to work, it would definitely be in a library.

My sons are now seven and five and I have been working at the school library for one year.  I feel this is the best decision I have ever made.  Not only can I be creative and find new exciting books to read, I get to be an internet guru!

I work as a Library Assistant in a school library in Brisbane, Queensland and I am studying towards my Diploma.  We have an exciting library with displays, book club, book fairs and competitions.  However, we are lacking in the technology side of things.  It would be great to have the children involved in blogs and wiki’s and everything else I will be learning about in the next couple of weeks.