“I’m learning from the library, I’m learning from people in the library, I’m learning from students out here,” Jeanette Mitchell says.

Jeanette is TAMUT Circulation Supervisor in the John F. Moss library. She has been serving here for almost eight years, but before being surrounded by books, she already had an interest. “I like reading about different real lives, if I read about somebody that actually experienced it, then I can get an understanding of what it was really like.” “Reading memoirs of other people interest me, when I can find a book that is pertaining to a historical lifestyle.”

            Serving in the library does not stop there though, “my hobby is just exercise, anything that will condition my heart,” “I may ride my bicycle about 13 to 15 miles, or I will go to the track and run bleachers,” she mentions. Being active is her way of living, “If its active, if it’s fun, if I’m having fun and at the same time exercising, I’m all for it!”

“But, when it comes to life, tread lightly.”

            Whether it’s reading, running or doing whatever she puts her mind too, Jeanette said, “my biggest accomplishment in life is being a mother and being able to teach my sons how to live a meaningful life,” a lesson she is teaching students here. Mitchell says, “we didn’t come here with an instruction book, we got to figure things out.”