Media Assistant Sean C. Lyons helps push students in the right direction during a research subject, trying to strike a balance between being helpful and being too helpful. Not only that, he offers assistance with finding resources and articles he can get access to. 

“I had one student last year who was writing a paper on what’s called the French Paradox, which was this idea now largely debunked,” Lyons said. 

Lyons has worked with books in the past before coming to work in the school library. The key difference? Selling the books. 

“I also worked in a very sort of unusual type of bookstore. It was a secondhand and antiquarian bookstore” Lyons said. “The largest sale of books I ever made as an employee was about $18,000 worth of books.”

He has been working as a school librarian for 7 years now, 4 of those at Rockville High School. His favorite thing about working in the school library is just being able to learn new things. 

“I get to talk to people about what interests them and that often is different from what interests me, so I learn new things every day,” Lyons said.  

He enjoys working at his job, and with his fellow coworkers. He’s worked jobs before in the past where he disliked them, but not here. 

“I receive satisfaction daily from working with intelligent people who work hard, who are interesting. There’s no substitute for that at all,” Lyons said.