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In 2022, Ms. Drabinski called it a “principle of librarianship” that “every reader has a right to decide for themselves what they read. And that includes children.”

A year later, she earned a degree from the University of Washington’s school of librarianship and went to work as a children’s librarian in Yakima, Wash.

However, by the third grade, she was a reading pro and she went on to specialize in librarianship after attending the University of Washington, Seattle.

“I call it concierge librarianship. We’re pulling the books, bringing them out, checking them out for you.”

“It’s the world community. And I think that if that isn’t librarianship’s ultimate goals, then nothing is.”