When Ari Baker (’15) first got the career assessment results back that said he’d be an ideal librarian, he was skeptical. After all, he’d spent some time volunteering to shelve books at the Blount County Public Library, and it hadn’t been all that exciting.
Now, three years after he graduated with his master’s degree in information sciences and 10 years into working at the Blount County Public Library, he chuckles at his previous notion of what a librarian does. After all, he spends his days as the learning commons coordinator, overseeing a broad array of programs for adults, including English … Read more “Alum Ari Baker Finds Fulfillment in Public Librarianship”