A busy conference hallway can spark the best ideas, and our conversation with Tiffany Williams proves it. As the Children’s Services Manager at the Heard St. Andrews Library in the Charleston area, Tiffany has built a practical approach to child wellbeing that fits right between storytime and stacks. She walks us through Wellness in the Stacks, a program suite that uses kids’ yoga, simple cooking classes, and even World Labyrinth Day to teach mindfulness, self-regulation, and calm.
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Episode Transcript
Welcome to Spotlight for Success by American Book
Company.
I'm Devin Pintozi, your host.
We are here at the SouthCarolina School School
Librarians Conference inwonderful Columbia, South
Carolina.
And we are so excited to havewith us today Tiffany Williams.
Tiffany, thank you for joiningus today.
SPEAKER_01 (00:28):
Thank you for having me.
SPEAKER_00 (00:29):
Tiffany Williams is a uh school librarian.
She's a specialist at the umchildren's can you tell me your
the the name of the librarianlibrary?
SPEAKER_01 (00:42):
Okay.
I'm at the Heard St.
Andrews Library, and I am theChildren's Services Manager.
SPEAKER_00 (00:48):
Okay.
So Heard St.
Andrews Library, Children'sServices Manager.
Um so happy to have you with ustoday.
SPEAKER_01 (00:56):
Thank you for having me.
SPEAKER_00 (00:58):
So can you tell me a bit, Tiffany, about what brings
you here to this conference?
SPEAKER_01 (01:03):
Sure.
Um mostly here to be able tonetwork and learn from other
South Carolina library workersto take in new information to
get new ideas for programs.
And I'm also presenting later ontoday.
So I'll be sharing some of myinformation as well.
SPEAKER_00 (01:21):
Well, Tiffany, what are you what are you presenting
on?
SPEAKER_01 (01:25):
My session is called Wellness in the Stacks, and it's
about the different programsthat I've planned for children
that promote wellness andmindfulness, and um just
different things like that.
So yoga, um cooking programs, uhWorld Labyrinth Day, just a lot
(01:46):
of interesting programs thathelp people learn to focus on
mindfulness and just trying totake care of themselves.
SPEAKER_00 (01:53):
Oh, that is wonderful.
What a great thing you're doinguh there in uh Charleston,
giving that a go.
Yeah.
Um that's great.
And uh so uh that's what you'redoing here.
And um um is there something youwould like to like as a what is
your takeaway from thisconference?
You're like, this is really whyI'm coming.
SPEAKER_01 (02:14):
Uh really wanted to be able to just connect with
other library workers um and seewhat they're doing at their
libraries and just to get ideas.
Um I think that's really whatthis is all about is being able
to network and connect withother library workers and uh get
those ideas and see how we canuse them in our library.
(02:37):
I'm also here to share my ideasand hopefully somebody will be
able to take that back to theirlibrary and just, you know, and
use it and it works out for themas well.
SPEAKER_00 (02:47):
Oh, that's wonderful.
Yeah.
Um can you tell me a bit whatmade you decide you wanted to
get into becoming a librarian?
SPEAKER_01 (02:55):
Sure.
Um I kind of just fell into it.
Um my aunt is a librarian, mymom is a lot was a librarian,
and so it they inspired me to goahead and be a librarian as
well.
And I have a daughter who is 26,and she is also a librarian.
Oh, wow.
So we have four librarians inour family.
SPEAKER_00 (03:17):
Wow, that is unusual.
That is amazing.
SPEAKER_01 (03:20):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (03:21):
Oh, that's great.
Well, it's great that yeah,y'all are involved in that work
and helping so many children inthis case with your position in
the local community.
That's great.
Yes.
All right.
Well, thank you so much forjoining us today.
This again, this is uh TiffanyWilliams joining us as a
librarian in the Charleston uharea of South Carolina here at
(03:42):
the South Carolina LibrarianAssociation Conference.
Thank you once again.
SPEAKER_01 (03:46):
Thank you for having me.
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