She ended up working for the school district for 20 years. “What a great schedule to be on,” she says she thought at the time. While expecting the birth of her daughter, Wisniewski heard of a job at the Liverpool Central School District’s Educational Communication Center, like a BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services) for the big school district. “Ding!,” Wisniewski says with a laugh about that revisit to the bookmobile suggestion of her high school days. Then an out-of-the-blue query letter brought a slot as a children’s librarian at the Onondaga County Public Libraries’ Mundy Branch, which was followed by a beloved slot as a bookmobile librarian out of the central branch of OCPL. Then came her first professional librarian position in the office of Museums and Historic Sites for Onondaga County Parks. That bachelor’s degree led to a Master’s in Archives and Museum Librarianship at SU. Alas, Wisniewski already had it in her mind to study American History at Syracuse University. Taking a career assessment test years later in high school, one of her choices came out as bookmobile librarian. She also remembers riding her bike to the village library, located at the time in a house with creaky floors on Charlotte Street. Yes, she had real-life experience to draw upon. “I’d say, ‘I think you need to read this.’ I’d give due dates.” “We would have our books and checkout cards,” she says. When Glenna Wisniewski was a kid growing up in Baldwinsville, she recalls, on a rainy day she might be found at her friend Jimmy Pirong’s house playing library. If you haven't had the chance to read the story there, here it is:

Director Glenna Wisniewski reflects on her career in her library office with Communications Specialist Mark Bialczak.

Watch Me Go by Mark Wisniewski