【Preview of the December Issue】

What's On Librarian Desk
What space do librarians spend the most time at during the day? Of course, the desk.
A place where you can plan, make supplies, play tiki-taka with the kids, and even secretly take a deep breath.
This magazine suddenly became curious about the various items on the private 'librarian's desk'.
Also, these days, 'books' that have moved in there privately.
So, this issue is a special feature on librarian items.
Teacher Jeon Seol-gi reveals her pink desk items, from keyboards to fountain pens.
Hong Geun-hye, a librarian, carefully explains the Braille supplies in the library of a school for the blind.
Librarian Son Jang-hee introduces a desk that adds a touch of reading and writing flavor, and librarian Kwon Kyung-jin introduces a desk that will make your eyes pop with its goods.
Librarian Kim Jin-myeong's desk is filled with the spirit of caring and recycling, and librarian Choi Hye-rin's desk is filled with organizing items that are responsible for the aesthetics of the library.
At librarian Kim Cha-kyung's desk, there is a pet rock that she raises with her users.
Among the desks, each one filled with the marks of their own hands, the School Library Journal discovered a common thread: the desire to make today a safe one.
With the warmth of encouragement in your heart, we begin the “What’s On Librarian Desk,” which is more fun than you think and actually quite useful!

I can go anywhere with pink
There's one in every school.
'Pink fan'.
This is Jeon Seol-gi, a librarian at Seoul Gyeonggi High School.
His desk is a veritable pink world, “filled with his crazy love of pink, rabbits, and cherry blossoms.”
From the pink keyboard to the cherry blossom-patterned tumbler and the limited edition fountain pen with a sparkling light pink body.
It's harder to find anything that isn't pink on a teacher's desk.
As a librarian who always works alone, I created a space where I could be “happy even when I’m alone,” and that’s how it turned out.
His desk isn't special because it's silky pink.
There are many practical items that catch your eye, from macro keypads that shorten work hours to stainless steel pens that are useful for writing.
However, the miniature of the Buddha statue that helps to calm the mind and body is (again) hot pink.
Look forward to his extraordinary pink desk.

How to Raise the Savor of Working and Reading by 1℃
Have you ever heard the rumor that there's pepper on the librarian's desk? The desk of Son Jang-hee, a librarian at Bucheon Somyeong Girls' Middle School, is where the rumor originated.
“Sometimes, when you need a little spice, a pinch of pepper really brings out the flavor of the food,” says Teacher Son.
He says he carries Ottogi Pure Pepper with him every lunchtime.
In fact, he is a person who brings out the flavor in every place of work, including food.
In the library, which had a musty smell due to repeated flooding, I added a subtle fragrance with a cedar-scented diffuser, and introduced the “taste of writing” to the library’s writing corner with a calligraphy fountain pen purchased at a stationery fair.
He even personally creates small book reviews and personally attaches them to the books that students check out. If his food has pepper in it, then his touch is definitely present in the library of Somyung Girls' Middle School.

A workplace where you can connect with goods and take a break.
A desk that catches the eye with useful reading goods and teacher items.
This is the desk of Kwon Kyung-jin, a librarian at Yeongdeungpo Girls' High School.
Whenever I hear a request for a recommendation for reading goods, the first thing Professor Kwon recommends is a pen mark.
It was popular when it was put up as a library event item because it could be inserted into any book and its design was pretty.
Meanwhile, the teacher's essential item, the permanent seal, is different from the one used by Mr. Kwon.
His book seal is an uncommon hexagonal font! Very “cute”.
From his diary to his reading stand, his desk is filled with items that clearly show his careful selection.
But when you look at the nutritional supplements on one side and the paper cup used as a pencil holder for three years, you can see that it is also humane.
Here is the librarian's desk, where you can "think, write, and sometimes stop and catch your breath."

I'll give you a sparkling story
“There were many decisions and choices that went into getting to this position,” said Hong Geun-hye, a librarian at the National School for the Blind in Seoul.
The most striking thing on his desk is a Braille label maker priced at 1.85 million won.
It is said that it is essential when signing a Braille book.
The reality is that items for the disabled are usually expensive.
A Braille list, which is essential for book inspection, and a Braille board and a Braille pen, which are notebooks and pens for the visually impaired, are also essential items on the desk.
The 'crystal stickers' that students stick on the kiosk to help them easily find the areas they need to touch by touch are also a valuable item.
Some of the items Mr. Hong introduces could be useful tools for planning disability-related events in schools for non-disabled students… This is why his writing will be useful to librarians in schools for non-disabled students as well.

Even after its usefulness has been exhausted, it is a hideout for caring hearts.
Kim Jin-myeong, a librarian at Dongrae High School in Busan, “creates a hideout by placing items in the (hidden) space” thanks to the tall lending desk.
The first item in his hideout is a tumbler.
Although it may look ordinary, this tumbler is said to be a 'networking item' that leads to morning greetings with colleagues in front of the water purifier in the faculty office.
Meanwhile, Teacher Kim is a caring recycler.
In his hands, a box of Starbucks cookies transformed into a notepad holder, and a yogurt bottle into a tong holder.
Even the laptop's external hard drive case is transformed into a portable pencil case to hold computer markers and stamps on exam days.
Is it because of this kind of consideration?
Plants that were abandoned all over the school keep coming to him.
Does Teacher Kim know?
The ability to save something comes from one person's kindness and affection.

Next, we included “A desk of neatness and passion, blessed by Miffy” by Choi Hye-rin (Cheonan Cheongsu High School), a librarian who is full of organizing items that are responsible for the appearance of the library and self-made mementos from the library club; “Practical items fit in the drawer! Memories are everywhere you look” by Kim Su-hyeon (Daejeon Seobu Elementary School), a librarian who is full of hidden treasures under the desk rather than on top of it; and “Between the librarian’s operation headquarters and the battle zone” by Kim Cha-kyung (Yongin Neutinamu Library), a librarian who has a pet rock(?) that she raises together with library users.

Next up is the special feature
The 'Learning' section, which considers the correct role and value of education,
The 'Learn', 'Join', and 'Read with Consideration' sections for people who read and share together between libraries and books.
The 'New Book of the Month' series, selected by the Book Recommendation Committee to consistently promote and recommend good books, continues.