On the job: Dori Hawxwell

What is your position with the city and how long have you been on the job?

I am a library clerk in the circulation department of the Walker Memorial Library. I have been working here full-time since January 17, 1989. I started working here as a high school student in 1986.

What is your background? Where did you go to school?

I am still a student. I’m a life-long learner. My training is in hospitality, customer and human services. I graduated from Scarborough High School in 1988, and attended the University of Maine in Augusta.

What kind of duties does your job entail?

My primary duties are in public relations. I greet people, answer telephones, renew books, check in and out patrons, and handle different requests. I am readily available to assist citizens in any way.

What is the most likely way that your job causes you to interact with the general public?

It is unlikely that I wouldn’t interact with the public in one way or another every day.

What do you like most about your job?

The best thing is that I learn something new everyday.

What do you like to do outside of work?

I am a dancer. I do ballroom, Latin, country line dancing. I have been self-employed as a dance instructor and instructed in seventeen different states. I also love to read non-fiction. My favorite book is the dictionary, but if I were stranded on a desert island I would take the Bible with me, because I haven’t finished it yet.