My name is Sarah Bean Thompson and I'm the Youth Services Manager at The Library Center in Springfield MO. I oversee both the children’s and teen departments of the library and I have a great staff that supports youth services and provides wonderful programs for kids and teens. I help out with toddler storytime, some teen programs, and my passion is reader's advisory. I’ve been the youth services manager for just a few months (I started in May). Previously I was the Young Adult Librarian at The Library Center for three years. I also worked in children’s for a year before that.   I graduated from the University of North Texas with my Master's in Library Science and my undergrad is in Communications/Radio from Olivet Nazarene University. I wanted to be a radio deejay, then in music business during college.

I’m not sure how exactly my path to librarianship came about... [read more]