[Publib] Bidding you all a fond adieu

[Nann Blaine Hilyard]

Donna Jo,
Thank you for all your contributions to the list.  Enjoy your new status!

Nann
@the library in Zion, Illinois



From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Donna Jo Atwood
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:26 AM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Publib] Bidding you all a fond adieu

I just wanted to tell everyone goodbye since I am retiring as of Friday.  I have so enjoyed my time on this list.  I must admit I didn't always agree with some of you, and I didn't always read the topics that I wasn't interested in, but I always came away with something to make my library life easier or brighter or more understandable.
I've spent almost my entire life (since I was an 8th grader) working in either school or public libraries and I've never regretted it.  The more things changed in the library world, the more I've found remains the same.  We are still committed to helping people find things-books, information, (on occasion, lost children and or spouses), themselves.  We do it mostly for long hours and smallish pay and we usually do it cheerfully.
There is always a lot they never tell you in library school, but the biggest two things are the amount of support you get from your library peers and the pleasures of working with and for your library patrons (showing my age here-they've never been customers to me).
Anyway, thanks for letting me join you all the last few years-and may you and all your libraries prosper.

Donna Jo Atwood
Reference Librarian
Olathe (KS) Public Library


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