It’s time for a break, to be—as Spirit of the West sings—home for a rest! I’m in the final week of our Fall term, with a two-week break to look forward to. I don’t know about you, but I always feel ready for an extended time off at this time of year.
With my collections ordering finished for the year, all of my in-class and library workshops done and dusted for Fall, and with not a creature stirring, not even a mouse, at the reference desk, we’re ready to wrap things up for 2024.
2025 looks to be a year of change at my library. Our library system is currently grappling with a potential move of a portion of our physical collection to a storage facility outside our province, the potential reorganization of our librarian complement, and the announced retirement at the end of 2025 of our University Librarian, bringing in new library leadership.
There will be a lot of work to be done by not only library administrators, but also librarians with each of these changes. I’m eagerly and anxiously looking to how each changes and shapes our library.
For now, I plan to rest and relax on my break. I will be spending my holidays with my family and friends, watching and listening to endless entertainment, playing shinny at the outdoor rink, and cat-sitting our friends’ cat.
What am I currently reading?
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
“A Mindfulness-Based Information Literacy Framework for the Current Information Environment” (Matthew N. Hannah, Jennifer Hoewe, Hanna Sistek, Taeik Kim, & Dan Goldwasser) – Journal of Information Literacy (2024)
What am I currently watching?
HBO’s The Penguin, starring Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti
We Live in Time, starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield
What am I currently listening to?
Hovvdy’s 2024 self-titled album
and an audiobook version of The Art Thief by Michael Finkel.
I’ll see you all in 2025! I hope everyone finds time for themselves and with those they care about in the last few weeks of 2024.