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Susan Manalli Author Archive


Email: smanalli@andersonlibrary.org   Website: Anderson County Library System, Anderson, South Carolina  

Head of Technical Services, Anderson County Library System, Anderson, SC; BS/Ed Spanish and MA/LS University of Wisconsin-Madison; former secondary school Spanish teacher in WI & MN; former secondary school Media Specialist in VA & FL; educational film/video sales representative Europe; singer, writer, and Poodle enthusiast!


stack of reference books and a pair of glasses

“I Was Just Wondering…”

Every decade or so, I complete a career check. I don’t know if you do the same, but I find it’s a way for me to measure who I am against what I do. Now, since I’m in the fourth quarter of my life’s game, I really shouldn’t bother, but if I don’t stop measuring and evaluating, I’ll stop learning and growing, and that just doesn’t appeal to me. So, I trotted out the old question, “Am I happy with what I’m doing?” and set up my check list.