My name is Abby Ryan.
I'm a Youth Services Librarian at Madison Public Library Central Library.
I am so lucky that a
typical day for me
has such a variety of things in it.
There's always a little bit of
customer service
working at our public reference desks.
Much of Abby’s work as a librarian happens behind the scenes.
there's also a lot of
planning behind the scenes.
We had four gigantic
groups of school kids
visit our library within the last month.
There's a lot of
behind the scenes planning for
future things that happen.
What are we going to do?
What stories are we going to read?
How are we going to
rotate a hundred kids
through our space safely?
What’s one thing you want your community to know?
I would love our
community to know that
the library is there for them.
It's there for everybody.
You never know
what you're going to find
until you come and check it out.
Come on in and see what we have.
If you're not using it,
you're missing out.
People are always going
to be looking for
opportunities to learn
and libraries provide that.
And I think libraries
are going to continue to
be those places of
human to human connection.
And I'm excited.
We don't always have the answers,
but we're always...
we've always got ideas of where to look.