 My name is Steve and my love affair with the library began when I was a young boy in the mountains of Pennsylvania. One year when I was in third grade my mother decided I needed to see our public library and in those days it was an older wooden structure, creaky, but smelled good of old books and even though it was dark it was well lit to read. Then throughout the years I visited a library and then in college I worked for a couple of years in our college library. Got so I enjoyed the work, working at the circulation desk and in the reference area that I thought I would major in library science and get my degree. However, I had too much fun and wasn't able to make the grades. When I immigrated to San Francisco in 1972 I found using the library for work, research, writing papers, resumes, to my benefit. My first library card was an old-fashioned paper card and now you get a new plastic card. Even throughout the years as I was using a library I always envisioned someday working at the library and now that I'm retired I am working at the library. I work for San Francisco Friends of the Public Library. I'm working as manager of the bookstore and at the donation center. My name is Steve and my story starts with SFPL.