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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Mansfield Library Faculty Publications Mansfield Library Fall 2007 Outpost Reference : Meeting Patrons on Their Own Ground Samantha Hines University of Montana - Missoula, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/ml_pubs Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Hines, Samantha, "Outpost Reference : Meeting Patrons on Their Own Ground" (2007). Mansfield Library Faculty Publications. 11. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/ml_pubs/11 This Conference Proceeding is brought to you for free and open access by the Mansfield Library at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mansfield Library Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 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Bolin, Editor, PNLA Quarterly, 319 Love Library, PO Box Membership dues include a subscription. The subscription fee 884100, 13th & R Streets, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, represents $20 of annual fees. Lincoln NE 68588-4100 USA. PNLA Quarterly Editor ALA-H.W. Wilson Library Periodical Award Winner: 1964, Mary K. Bolin 1974, 1993. 319 Love Library PO Box 884100 The PNLA Quarterly is indexed in Library Literature and Library 13th & R Streets University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Information Science Abstracts. Lincoln NE 68588-4100 USA PNLA QUARTERLY 72:1 1 WWW.PNLA.ORG am a country farm girl. My parents are farmers and as such, I grew President’s I up in much the same manner. I went to a small town school where Message we had classes from Kindergarten to Grade 12 and when I graduated there were 250 children in the whole school, though in my class there were only 15 of us. I was the first one in my family to graduate Connie Forst from high school and one of my favourite memories was seeing how proud my parents were of me when I got my degrees. From our place to school it was an hour on the school bus. The nearest town is 20 minutes away, and for the longest time, the easiest direction to our place was that you turned off the secondary road onto our gravel road when the blacktop ended. I grew up on a mixed farm where we had hogs, milking cows, cattle, chickens and fields of grain. Over the years, the course of farming has changed and we’ve downsized a bit but still maintain a grain and cattle operation. Once I completed my library degree I began working in a mid-size rural community, and though I’ve changed positions a few times over the years, the rural focus has remained. My parents instilled a love of reading in me at an early age, and while the nearest town was only a short distance from the farm, it did not have a library that was open over the summer. I had my first public library card, just for the summer, in a community that was half an hour away. I think I used it three times because that was as often as my parents could bring me when they were busy doing farming things the rest of the time. My school library was the only thing that I really had growing up and I loved my librarian dearly. I don’t think she knew how much she impacted my life and how my career has taken off since those school days. When I finished university and began working it was a bit of a culture shock for me to be back in a rural area. As much as I loved it, it was definitely different to be in a place where things weren’t moving at a lightening pace and if an answer to a question came in a weeks time it would be plenty fine. I realized how much people valued my assistance and how much of a difference I was making in their life by opening their world to new possibilities and ideas.