I was working on my friends' computer last night, trying to figure out what was up with their printer, when I started to promote POWER library to her. She's a first-grade teacher, and I've shown her different website resources before. Things that would help with lesson planning, etc. Then I realized that I had never talked to her about POWER library, so I logged in from our website and started to show her all the cool things you can find there. The amazing thing was that she went and got her wallet with her library card and wanted to learn how to log in from her library's website. I realized then just how many regular library patrons (she uses her public library pretty regularly and even runs her church's library - she's not an "unlibraried" individual) may not be aware of that tremendous resource.
I also realized yesterday just how much of a librarian I am. There were a couple times as three of us were scrapbooking and talking about college days that we had questions about a trip that two of us had taken. Years ago, I would have been content to just talk about what kind of train it was that we had ridden or who the people in that picture were. I would count on my remembering at some point. Not anymore. Now I had to go upstairs to the computer and look up the train ride to see what kind it was (narrow-guage, coal-burning, steam-powered) and ask my friend to go get her yearbook so we could figure out who the people were. The power of research... there's a librarian for you!
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