Today, February 20, 2020, Janet Tom was interviewed at San Francisco Village. She was very entertaining!
I've known and admired her for years, but I keep learning new things about her. ''
Rachel Lanzeotti introduced her and intended to interview her, but Janet didn't need an interviewer. (Credit should be given, nonetheless, to the very good questions that Rachel asked.)
Janet talked about her initial reaction to the call to announce she'd won an "I Love My Librarian" award. She thought it was a crank call and didn't return it. Once she learned of the award, she was asked to keep it a secret for a couple of weeks and did. Then her friends were calling to congratulate her, and she asked, "How did you know?"
"We read the New York Times!" they replied
She talked about getting speakers for the library programs, and she commented on the terms used to define the roles of the librarians. She, for example, is the "subject selector."
"We have categories to confuse people," she said. "You get a Masters Degree so you can say these words."
She is the subuec selector for health, 610-615. She's glad she got the beginning of that section, which is prevention. 616-619 are the diseases themselves.
More on this tomorrow..
The attendees seemed as sharp as the women I so much admire in OWL.
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