People who know nothing about libraries and librarians always assume I have loads of free time during my working day to sit down and read a book. How I wish this were true. Linda could make me a mug of tea, Boss Lady could cancel her latest brain-storming meeting or buzzword filled memo, and we could all quietly sit on the reading chairs or on the bench in the courtyard garden and flick through a wonderful story.

Hey, a girl can dream, right?

Much more likely is that I’m so busy I take five minutes for my lunch and don’t get even halfway through my day’s list of tasks.

It’s the interruptions. I can begin planning an event, setting up the social media and email announcement, sourcing a good speaker, arranging the room plan, and checking it fits in with one of Boss...

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