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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Fresno County Librarian is celebrating her 50th day with the county.
Penny Hill spent astir of her vocation arsenic a children’s librarian and 26 years astatine the Selma Branch Library.
Hill loves speechmaking to the kiddos -and they adore her, too. As they grew up and had their ain children, they returned to the room truthful their kids could person the aforesaid magical acquisition of being work to by Miss Penny.
“For Penny, the astir important idiosyncratic is the idiosyncratic close successful beforehand of her, and you tin spot this successful each of her interactions,” said Jennifer Bethel, Principal Librarian astatine the Fresno County Public Library.
From Lindsay, California, Hill was inspired by her hometown librarian and wanted to travel successful her footsteps.
“Mrs. Peggy, superwoman, and I saw however everybody loved her, and they liked having her help,” Hill said.
Hill wanted to beryllium that aforesaid root of support, whether by introducing caller books oregon witnessing radical done each stages of life.
“One gal came successful and she was connected the machine and each of a sudden, she fto retired a shriek and left, and I went implicit and looked, what is she looking at? She had gotten a letter, an email that said she had a afloat thrust for college, I conscionable got each choked up astir that,” Hill said.
Over the past 5 decades, she’s watched the integration of exertion into the library; peculiarly however radical cheque retired books.
“We would assistance radical cheque retired and present it's these self-checks,” Hill said.
Hill says it makes her sad, “because you don't get to person that interaction.”
But that doesn’t halt Hill from making each visitor’s acquisition memorable.
“Penny volition conscionable bent retired adjacent the self-checkout,” Bethel said. “'How are you doing today? That looks similar a large book, is that a cookbook? You request to travel backmost successful and bring america thing that you've made', you know, she's retired determination chatting with folks due to the fact that that transportation is the astir important happening to her.”
While she’s not definite erstwhile status volition come, she says she inactive wants to marque a difference.
“As agelong arsenic I'm able, arsenic agelong arsenic I'm making a difference, I don't privation to beryllium carried retired of present feet first, you know, but I inactive privation to, I privation to marque a difference.”
Next month, Hill volition beryllium honored for her beingness of work astatine this year's State of the County luncheon.
