Tonishia Lamartina

“Even before I started looking into this role, there was kind-of an outdated vision of what a librarian is －which is why we are called library media specialists now because so much has changed－you kind-of have this vision of someone who’s just into books, but the job is more than that. It really is more focused on learning and always bringing in new ideas and teaching that to students, then sharing that with teachers, so it’s not just about books, it’s not even just about research. It is so much more than that. There’s just that image of a woman with a bun and glasses, sitting behind a desk, and checking out your books. It’s so much more than that.