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Library Card Sign-Up Month: Spotlight On Staff

Posted Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:40 pm ET|Updated Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:38 am ET

Your name: Donna Laygues

Title: Principal Library Clerk

Working @ the HPL library for 27 years.

1. Describe working at Library in 3 words or less. Satisfying, challenging, educational.

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2. What is the best part of your job? Interaction with the public. Looking thru new books coming into the library.

3. Favorite recent reads?

You changed my life by Abdel Sellou, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Hunting Eve by Iris Johansen, anything by James Patterson.

4. What is the most memorable reference question/request you've ever had from a patron? To explain what the family jewels were.

5. A book about your life would be called? On the road

6. Something most people would not know about you: Shy, an avid reader, animal lover.

7. Hobbies, talents, special interests: Reading and collecting signed and numbered first edition books.

8. Three words to best describe you: Passionate, dedicated, and committed.

9. Ability you wish you had: Be artistic.

10. Always wanted to try: Hot air ballooning.

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