>> Well, what's great is helping people to become the best version of themselves.
That's sort of my tagline when I'm putting my bio out there.
When I speak at events or go to conferences and share what I do.
It's helping people to become the best version of themselves through learning.
And setting up their own -- I call it, well it's sort of a -- the term out there are PLE.
A Personal Learning Environment.
These days it's not all about just going to a classroom and learning.
You have to be able to search online for information.
And so teaching people how to -- learning how to learn so to speak.
It's a real joy of my job.
So that it's not, just come deliver the information to me.
It's how you can go out and search for it in the 21st Century.
It's great.
Every -- all the resources that are available to us.
So I think that's my favorite part.
Someone will come in.
They're nervous.
They're new.
And by the end of a 2 hour or 3 hour session, they're like, oh, I know what I'm doing.
This is great.
You know, thanks for helping me out.
So -- so the challenges.
Public library is the first thing you think of as funding.
It's non-profit, and every year -- in this state anyway -- we're getting cut.
Every year I've watched the staff at all 14 libraries
in this county get smaller and smaller.
Hours get reduced.
And so making time to learn is very frustrating for them.
They don't have the time.
They don't have the staff to leave the desk and learn.
So that's the frustrating part of the job.
And that affects everything that a library can provide
to the public, is that decrease in funding.
So -- and it causes a lot of issues just in, you know,
what each library can bring to each area of the county.
So that's -- the library system is working hard to work on different ways
to fund, and to help in that area.
So that's sort of where we're moving into to help with that.
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