Longevity

The Division of Libraries recently honored 32 of our colleagues who are celebrating milestone years of service at NYU. Five of those honored hail from Access Services, including Allan Frank, Ted Lawton, Liudmilla Hirsch, Sharon Thomas and Lakisha Woodford. First off, I would like to congratulate and thank our colleagues: Allan and Ted for 40 years of service, Liudmilla for 35 years of service, Sharon for 15 years of service and Lakisha for 10 years of service. That's 140 plus years of library experience among only 6 colleagues!

Access Services is such a large department that every

year we honor people for longer service milestones. This makes me think of the years of service put in by those who weren't honored

this year simply because their years of service don't add up to a nice round number. We have 41 regular employees in our department and 27 of them were hired before 2000. More of us have been honored at longer service awards than have not. Together we have over 650 years of experience at NYU!

While Allan, Ted, Liudmilla, Sharon and Lakisha deserve their special recognition this year, we all deserve recognition for our dedication to NYU and the Division of Libraries. Thanks to everyone for their dedication and hard work.