[Publib] Where is YOUR administrators' office? --- was Seattle PL

[Jane Carle]

Good Friday Topic!!
   
  On the plus side, I have a huge office with a desk that could seat 8 comfortably.  It holds a lot of paper!
   
  On the minus side, my office is right behind the Circulation Desk and has windows facing the circ desk (yes - inside windows.)  There are blinds that I can close, otherwise it's a fish bowl!
   
  I have a large yellow mug that says "The Big Cheese" and a small pair of ruby slippers hanging on my wall near my computer.  It's good to be Queen!
   
  And that's the way it is in cold and snowy Kirtland, Ohio!
   
  Jane R. Carle, Director
  Kirtland Public Library
  
John <jrichmond at alphapark.org> wrote:
  I thought that in this Brave New World of Management by ... (fill in the blank yourself, depending on your favorite management self-help book or book-on-CD/Playaway/E-book of the quickly-passing second) ... we weren't supposed to even whisper the "H word," i.e., (very softly now) "hierarchy." Or any variation thereon. We are all *collaborators* now. I mean, isn't that the Gospel? Isn't that what Mr./Ms. Generation-Whatchamacalit expects in her/his workplace? Or maybe I'm behind the times.

On the other hand, if you're a Jungian, I seem to recall that old Carl claimed that the human psyche was naturally hierarchical. I'm not a true Jungian, but I've often thought about that. What CGJ said, I mean.

As for me and my office, I am in the southwest corner on the first floor, with big, tall windows that let in lots of light, which can be helpful in a dull, gray central Illinois winter, and at other times, too. There are deceptively brief or narrow or shallow woods to the west, out of which emerge deer and, sometimes, a wild (as opposed to civilized?) turkey. Beyond the shallowness lies land belonging to the Peoria Airport Authority, I think. I'm not sure if I'm king of all I survey, or not. I own neither ermine nor crown, though I have a kingly-looking tea cozy, acquired by my parental units in Europe, which I sometimes wear on Halloween as if it *were* a crown, when the pre-school story-timers parade through the library, gathering treats of library personnel.

TGIF!

("King John was not a good man--he had his little ways...." -- A. A. Milne)

John D. Richmond, Director
Alpha Park Public Library District
3527 So. Airport Road
Bartonville, IL 61607-1799
Ph: (309) 697-3822, x. 12
Fax: (309) 697-9681
Email: jrichmond at alphapark.org
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