My Biggest Takeaway
This semester has been one filled with ups and downs. There have been so many changes going on in my life, and so many awesome things we have covered throughout the semester. As I went back through my past blog posts this week, and as I flipped through prior readings, I took some time to think about what my biggest takeaway of the semester was. When I think about my biggest takeaway, it is honestly a little hard to not feel a bit silly. It feels like what I learned should have been common sense to begin with. But honestly it hit me particularly hard as we went through the course, and especially now as I am reflecting on all we have learned. My takeaway is simply that technical services and youth (and here specifically) school librarianship are inextricably linked. I know that this seems obvious, and honestly, it is. But I have worked in a large public library for 2 years now, where "technical services" is all its own department, and "youth services", where I wor