图书馆的记忆

今天，我要向我的朋友兼同事玛丽亚·卡朋特告别。玛丽亚将离开东北大学，成为萨默维尔公共图书馆馆长。今天是她在斯内尔的最后一天。玛丽亚10年前来到这里，担任参考和指导图书管理员。我们一见到她就知道她就是我们想要雇用的人。很明显，作为一名图书管理员，她的首要任务是在图书管理员和图书馆用户之间进行细心、富有同情心的沟通。多年来，她的角色不断扩大，作为我们的推进、营销和传播总监(她创造的一个职位)，她已经成为图书馆的耳朵和声音，协调所有的沟通，从意见箱到新闻稿，再到与作者见面计划。作为图书馆的网络管理员，我一直在寻求Maria的支持和指导。她能够给我关于沟通优先次序的建议，她能够通读一个句子并告诉我语气是否正确。她乐于尝试任何可能有助于图书馆交流的技术，包括Facebook、YouTube、Flickr和Twitter，她也是创建这个博客的幕后推手。 Above all, Maria has always been a great bridge for me. I think that’s because she makes a point of going outside the library. She attends NU events and professional conferences, audits classes and has dinners with alumni. Everywhere she goes, she listens to what people say about Snell Library and brings their perspectives back to me and my colleagues, asking us to look up from our books and our laptops and engage with what’s going on at Northeastern and beyond. Not content with the relentless pace of her professional library activities, Maria’s recently begun to take an interest in yoga, and has found it so satisfying that she’s become an instructor. One of the things I will miss is being able to attend the occasional noon yoga class she leads for her friends in the seminar room at Snell, once again, getting us to lift our heads up from our laptops and stretch a little. In fact, stretching is what I expect Maria to continue to do, in who-knows-what unexpected directions, when she takes the reins at Somerville Public Library. Back here at Snell, I shall follow her career with interest, and I hope that once in a while she’ll meet me for a Mark N Stormy at Highland Kitchen, so we can continue talking about the future of books, libraries and communities as we’ve been doing for the past ten years. Goodbye, Maria, and always when you stretch, don’t forget to breathe! To view the official press release of Maria’s departure, visit the雷竞技app最新版raybet雷竞技东北大学图书馆的新闻与事件页面。