Librarian Strives To Help Others Become Who They Want To Be

By Angel Sabater |

Nice, outgoing, productive and positive; librarian, Dr. Nancy Hartman started her career as a high school English teacher. She went off to become a technology kind of person and started teaching Video Production. That led her to library school to become a librarian.

Librarian, Dr. Nancy Hartman behind book checkout desk.

Librarian, Dr. Nancy Hartman behind book checkout desk.

“People don’t realize that librarians have to be very technology-based,” said Hartman. “Because so much of our information gathering and knowledge gathering is based on technology. So I went to library school with my mother and we both got our master’s degrees and then I was a librarian in Japan for five and a half years, then I moved to Germany and was in Germany for another six years. There I met and married my army husband and the rest was history and we ended up in Texas.”

Hartman believes that knowledge is an important factor to a librarian. “Knowledge is the most important thing to a librarian and it’s about being able to take information, data, and make it into knowledge that we can use and be productive with.”

Here are three things that motivate Hartman every day:

  • Being Productive
  • Serving People
  • Helping People

Hartman likes the fact that as a librarian, she can help guild others to become who they want to become.

“I like serving people and helping people find the information they need and I never know from one day to the next what kind of questions I’m going to get,” said Hartman. “I get all kinds of questions and it’s really fun being able to help people become what they want to be, that’s what makes being a school librarian so special. And one of the reasons why I chose to be a school librarian it’s because, when you’re growing up, people say ‘what do you want to be when you grow up? What do you want to do?’ I could never decide on one thing I always want to do too many things, so what’s cool about being a librarian is that I get to help people figure out what they want to be and where they want to be and help them achieve those goals, so I think that’s very fulfilling.”