Linda may not be the best senior librarian in the country. In fact I doubt she’s even the best senior librarian in her street, but she does make me raise my game. You could say she’s a useful mentor.

Sometimes she mentors me by showing me what NOT to do.

Linda has a long list of things she doesn’t like or simply doesn’t engage with.

The printer
All technology
Saturday Story Times and Children other than her own
Teenagers
Gerry Daly (I do not judge her for this)
Imelda and the Mobile Bus Unit (I’m still investigating this mystery)
Mathematics

Those are the main items I’ve discovered, so far. She’s not keen on our readers either, but she tolerates them under the term “necessary evils”.

Mathematics i...

Please subscribe to keep reading.