An Unconventional Librarian

<p>Pam Margolis is An Unconventional Librarian! She loves book and she loves inspiring students to explore new literature to expand their world. She reviews both popular books and those emerging in their genre.</p> <p>During this episode, Pam talks about Flamingo Rampant books. They are an inclusive publisher that she recommends: https://www.flamingorampant.com/</p> <p>Here’s where you can find Pam at her website:<br /> https://unconventionallibrarian.com/</p> <p>TRANSCRIPT (not proofread)</p> <p>SUMMARY KEYWORDS<br /> book, kid, people, children, diversity, wheelchair, literature, read, write, issues, person, find, talking, friend, pam, important, black, thinking, special needs, great<br /> SPEAKERS<br /> Pam Margolis, Dana Jonson</p> <p>Dana Jonson 00:00<br /> Thank you for joining me today. Today I'm very excited, we're talking with Pam Margolis, who is a champion of the underdog, and an unconventional librarian. Hello, Pam, thank you for joining me.</p> <p>Pam Margolis 00:12<br /> Hi, I'm glad to be here. Thank you,</p> <p>Dana Jonson 00:15<br /> I would love it if you would tell us how you got to be the unconventional or an unconventional library.</p> <p>00:22<br /> I</p> <p>Dana Jonson 00:24<br /> hope that if it's not obvious, what I really want to talk to you about today is diversity in literature. And I know that that is something that you champion and educate other people on and encourage other people to engage in different forms of literature by different authors and different themes and different topics so that we can better educate ourselves and employ some empathy to people who are different than we are, which is something I think we all think we want to do, but I don't think is well reflected in our schools and our libraries. So could you give me a little bit of your background and explain why you're the person I'm coming to to give me the information I need on diversity and literature? Sure, certainly.</p> <p>Pam Margolis 01:06<br /> So if it's not obvious, if you see a picture of me, I am a perso