feeling the love

Blogger was not feeling the love yesterday, when I tried to post about something an instructor said to me. I'd just finished the fourth class for her students and she remarked, "You provide a very valuable service."

I hope so. Some days it doesn't feel like anyone else thinks what I do is valuable, but if I didn't, I wouldn't be doing it. If they could see the students' faces when they master the catalog or when they're able to figure out the Library of Congress classification system (no mean feat) or when they send their first full-text article to the printer...well, they'd understand.