I've been thinking a lot about the staff art exhibit, The Memory Salon, on display now through July 16th in the Fales Tracy/Barry Gallery. What really strikes me is the huge number of colleagues we have for whom this library thing is really just a day job. Please don't misunderstand me, I really don't think there is anything wrong with that. In Access Services alone we have athletes and actors, film makers and illustrators, musicians and music aficionados, photographers and textile artists, painters and parents, writers and scholars, all of whom feed their soul by something other than library work.
As day jobs go, it's not so bad. Despite the building's HVAC problems for the most part we work in air conditioned comfort. We get paid breaks and paid time off. We get tuition benefits and health insurance. Heck, we sometimes even get small discounts at local merchants for showing our IDs. Oh, and don't forget my former favorite benefit, those movie passes from ticket central (and, if they ever offered free babysitting perhaps I could use them again--wait, they do have that babysitter referral service...).
I wonder if other industries employ people with such a huge diversity of interests and such a huge pool of talent.
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