Maggie Thomann, 38, has been the fiction and media manager at the Northbrook Public Library since January. Before working for the Northbrook Public Library, Thomann worked at the Glenside Public Library District and the Park Ridge Public Library. She received her bachelor’s degree in English from Truman State University in 2001, and she received her master’s degree in library and information sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. She lives in Lombard with her 3-year-old son, and she grew up in Macomb Ill.
Q: How do you like working at the Northbrook Public Library?
A: I’ve been loving working here. It’s a vibrant community, and the residents are really engaged with the library.
Q: What does your job entail?
A: I oversee a staff of 19 people. We collect and maintain fiction and audiovisual material for the library. We also run a large portion of the adult programming.
Q: What is your favorite childhood memory?
A: Growing up on a farm, we spent a lot of time outside. On a cold fall day, we would go out on the flat corn fields, and my dad would take me and my sister out to fly kites.
Q: If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
A: There are so many places I want to go. I’d go back to South America, particularly Argentina. I’ve been once before and I loved it.
Q: What is your favorite book?
A: The book I’m enjoying right now is called “Young Jane Young” by Gabrielle Zevin.
Q: Do you have any words of wisdom for the community?
A: I really like the author Brene Brown, and I have one of her quotes pinned on my bulletin board. It says, “Imperfections are not inadequacies. They are reminders that we’re all in this together.”
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