JollyLibrarian

We are winding down this week as Christmas approaches. There are only four of us working this week, and mostly part days. So we would like to take this opportunity to wish all of you the happiest of holidays. We plan to continue to be jolly in 2010, and invite you to join us.

The fall semester’s end coincides with the holidays, so it seems like the perfect time to celebrate. And for many, it is. Suddenly there are no exams to study for or grade. There are holiday parties to attend. And there is time to spend with family and friends again. But for many, these same things [...]

A colleague of mine recently took me to task for the tone of my last few blogs. She thought that I had been too uniformly positive. I laughed at her, but later I started thinking about the wisdom of her words. Our workplace society is one that praises the positive. We give kudos to the [...]

Yesterday Emily emailed the staff a link to a picture of a library Christmas tree made of books. I thought it was cute and wondered if we could do the same. But  then I forgot about it. After all, we have students finishing up papers and starting to prepare for finals. And we’re moving things [...]

Tomorrow NSCC begins its last week of the fall semester. Students are trying to finish papers and study for finals. The Testing Center, Learning Center, Library, and the Open Lab are full to the brim. It’s a time when many students feel stress and pressure. And this is a time when many faculty and staff members [...]