I’ve given myself a new title at the library: Library Evangelist. I love to tell others about the library. I attend mixers and stop by professors’ offices just to tell them our latest offerings. This requires me to walk a line between enthusiasm and pushiness. Hopefully, I don’t often cross that line. It requires me to get out of the library into the spaces that our patrons inhabit. It also requires me to know the message of the library.
Just like many evangelists, I often can find a way to direct the conversation to what the library can do for them. Is an instructor planning a new class? We can help. Is a student about to study abroad? We can find him or her much of the information that he or she may need to get ready to spend a semester in another country. I am always looking for ways to subtly plug the library.
Sometimes, I don’t know if I am making a convert or preaching to the choir. It seems that it is those who already appreciate the library that most want to hear about it. Still, a person cannot act on what they do not hear, and they cannot hear unless someone tells them.
I am not by nature a pushy person, so my form of evangelism is gentile. I am by nature an introvert, but I am a social one. I do not like confrontation. I simply love the library. My passion simply spills into my conversations with others. Have I told you yet about our new…?
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