15/02/2005
Intro
I started work in libraries in late 1984 and finished my library technician course in 1985. I'm not going to put very much in the way of identifying information on here because I want to be able to write openly without worrying about backlash. I may not be all that critical but I want to be honest when I want to.
I've worked in a few libraries now. My first was a religious tertiary college for a few weeks where the people were lovely but I had to resist the urge to mess up the 200s. It was the largest section in the library and I'm just an old atheist. My next job was in a state library for 16 years. I've moved around a bit in there and as a result I'm very good at both interlibrary loans and serials to the level of problem solving and projects along with cataloguing and I can put my hand to most other things. I was spoilt in that job, allowed to dress as I pleased and able to move around if I wasn't getting along with others. They were my volatile years and sometimes I wonder how I got away with the things I did! I was very confrontative. Eventually they offered voluntary redundancies so that was the end of that.
I've worked in a major university library and a private uni library, a public library which I found to be exhausting and government department libraries. Having left the state library and had to exist in the real world my work has been really varied and I discovered I'm actually very good at customer service. Who knew? I use to avoid working with the public!
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