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Work Continued from 1)1young children.*’Moore conducts sessions with groups of youngsters at 4 p.m. each Wednesday. “I talk to them about books and I get them to read books, then tell me what the stories are about, Moore said I get to hear about a lot of the books myself that way.”Some of the youngsters who attend Moore’s book sessions are as young as 4, but budding readers. Others are in the 11-to 13-year-old range. Moore said she likes teaching them how to use the library to find the books they want.“The most popular books with the older, middle-school girls and boys now are the ones written by It L Stine,” she said •‘There’s The New Boy,’ which is a mystery It’s a real favorite. But they also like his books titled The Giants of the SilverTower,’ ‘The Surprise Party.’ ‘Best Friends and ‘The Sleepwalker,' ” she said.Moore said she encourages youngsters to make reading a lifelong hobby1 Is*! f‘i tell them it’s important for them to get in (lie habit of reading and to go to school and get an education, that they very much will need to be educated to make it in this world,'she saidBeing a librarian is a second career for Moore, a Burlington native, who had decided by the time she graduated from the now consolidated Sellars Gunn High School in 1969 that she wanted to work as a secretary.After high school, she went on to Southeastern Business College in Durham, where she received a degree in business administration. Later, she graduated from Georgetown University in Washington,D C,, where she studied to become an executive secretary. .That led to her getting a job with the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington.Alter nine years, though, Moore said she decided to go to work for the city of New York in a program for handicapped andretarded children. It was there, she said, that she learned she loved to work with youngsters.“But I came bac k to Burlington in 1977 because my father, Joe Lee Moore, was sick and my mother needed help,” she said. Her father died in 1980 Her mother, Nettie Moore died in 1985She worked at the ATT plant in Burlington through much of the 1980s, then l#llid the library staff in 1989. It was a move she's glad she made.“The children couldn i i^et along without her,’ said fellow librarian Julie Walker, a 10-year veteran of the May Memorial staff. “She takes it one day at a time.”And when she's not working, Moore spend* much of her spare time in a Mom-to-Mom program Members serve as mentors to teen-age girls She’s active in numerous programs at Stoney Creek AME Church, and she is also a member of the local Martin Luther King Coalition.
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Burlington Times News
Burlington, North Carolina, US
Sun, Feb 25, 1996
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