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Over 19 Years and Not Going anywhere

On 02/29/20 20 I will celebrate 20 years as part of the staff of my library.  This is admittedly a long time if not too long.  Yet I am too young to retire and too old to look for a job at another library.  So do I stay and rot and become a blight on the library and the future library director  I don't think so.

Here's my plan to make the rest of my years at my library meaningful.


  • I am putting more emphasis on working with the genealogy and local history section of the library.  
  • Continue to write my library columns and newsletters, as well as writing small chapbooks on local history issues.
  • Do more presentations.  I had been promoting library concerts for several of the last years I will spend more of my time doing presentations of things our patrons would find interest.
  •  to act as a liaison to the arts and humanities communities.
  • Vocalize the importance of libraries to a conservative community.

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