An LA Catholic school librarian’s accidental ‘dream come true’
The final weeks of MaryLou Lia’s 43 years as the librarian at St. Cyril of Jerusalem School in Encino have been winding down, and — for the most part — so is she.
“Excuse my dirty hands but I’ve been doing inventory,” Lia explained during a recent visit to her well-kept classroom of wall-to-wall bookcases.
Agile with her barcode scanner, Lia had been logging book titles that populate the popular fiction section, catching up on work after missing six weeks to mend a surgically repaired broken elbow. She took it as another signal that it was time to slow down, be at home in nearby Tarzana with her retired husband, and just come back to the school for visits as needed.