Steve Sanders is impressed with the Orion Township Library, about twice the size of the library he formerly worked at in his hometown of Warren.
Sanders, 26, became the new adult librarian for the Orion Library earlier this year and said he is enjoying the position.
“My cousin lives in this area, and it was one of the few (job postings) I’d seen…I graduated in May and had been looking for 9-10 months,” said Sanders, a Warren resident.
Sanders found the posting for the Orion position on the library network. He graduated from Wayne State University in May of 2002.
“I like it a lot,” he said of the Orion Library. “I’m impressed with the people, and I like working with the public.”
Sanders worked at two of the five branches of the Warren Library, each of which is considerably smaller than the Orion Library.
“Each branch is probably the size of the children’s room and the lobby here,” he said. “I got a job (at the Warren Library) when I was 16 shelving at a branch by my house. I stayed there through college and didn’t really know what I wanted to do.”
Sanders was influenced to become a librarian himself by a librarian he worked with at the Warren Library.
“I got to be pretty knowledgeable,” he said. “I like finding out things I didn’t know before, when people ask me questions.”
Sanders admits to being a sporadic reader, but said when he does read he enjoys contemporary science fiction by Neil Gainman, and the works of horror writer Stephen King.
He also likes working with computers, although he makes no claims at being an expert.
“I hesitate to say computers (as a hobby), because I’m not extremely knowledgeable, but I do like to mess with them,” he said. “I also enjoy watching sports.”
Sanders would like to relocate in the near future to the Lake Orion area.
“I’m kind of restricted to between (the library) and (Great Lakes Crossing),” he said of his experience with the Lake Orion community. “I like the trees and the lakes, as opposed to the grid-like layout of Warren and Sterling Heights.”