Posts Tagged ‘holidays’
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Stories of 2011: One Person’s (My) Adventures in Growing a New Academic Library
November 30, 2011 | 13 commentsTags: academic libraries, careers, community college, holidays, job changes, new libraries, one-person libraries, startupby Kim Leeder It’s official: we’ve entered the holiday season. Thanksgiving (and Black Friday) are safely behind us and the party invitations are beginning to roll in. It’s the time of year when we work perhaps a little less hard, reconnect with friends and family, indulge in good food and drink, and wait for the…
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Welcoming the Homeless into Libraries
December 1, 2010 | 17 commentsTags: charity, collaboration, equal access, holidays, homelessness, policy 61, poor people's policy, povertyPhoto by Flickr user Alex Barth (CC BY 2.0) by Kim Leeder I hope those reading this post had a warm, happy Thanksgiving, surrounded by family and friends. I spent most of last week in Florida at my parents’ “snowbird” house with my immediate family, all of us having traveled at least 1,200 miles to…