Meet the woman who co-founded Pima County Public Library's popular seed library and how it came to be.
I came to libraries the way many parents of young children do, through story times. I had never really frequented public libraries prior to having my son, but I knew that libraries are where moms and dads take their young children to socialize and learn literacy skills.
I had been a stay-at-home mom and a foster parent to adults with disabilities for about 10 years when I decided that I really needed some outside stimulation. I began working at the Eckstrom-Columbus Library, 4350 E. 22nd St., in 2007. Today, I am the managing librarian of the Eckstrom-Columbus Library, and both of my grown children work at public libraries.
People are also reading… I have worked at nine of Pima County’s 27 branches, and at each one, I found myself working with completely unique communities. I love learning how best to work with each of them while always maintaining the core library values of access to information that I hold so dear. The Seed Library has been such a gift to my library career. It has been one of my greatest library joys to watch it grow and spread throughout Pima County. We could not have existed and expanded without the rewarding partnerships we’ve made, which continue to grow every year.
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