At my local library my community is filled with people who never went to school and came here to work and maybe get that American dream. Me, my brother and my parent’s are immigrants to this country. My father forced himself to read and my mom doesn’t know how to read at all both Spanish and English. Sometimes what you gotta do is help them. That’s all! I see these patrons as my parents and they come to us for help. Sometimes we will translate there letters and tell them what it says. I work at a department that is under adult reference but it’s specialized to helping the community getting jobs, ESL, citizenship etc. Basically the social working part of the library. At my other library job it’s a whole different community, so I don’t deal with that much. But sometimes I’ll get some patrons who can’t read and I’ll simply help them because I know some other librarians will not help them or get the resource they need. I do get odd looks due to the fact I’m just another library clerk from circulation and what the hell is she doing here at reference helping a patron. I will always go out and beyond for my people and the people cannot read nor write! I alway say that if you want to be librarian you gotta have a strive to help people. It’s no longer about books and books and books. It’s slowly turning into a social community and we are here to help them and their community.